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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

Functional MRI of the brain, tests run by technologist

CPT 70554the billing code this page is about

Brain MRI that maps activity while the patient performs tasks, where the testing is set up and run without a physician or psychologist administering the tasks.

Hospitals typically charge $1,427 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 812 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,483. Most fall between $640 and $2,866 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
812
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 812 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$328$761$1,427$2,457$3,659

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($328 vs $3,659).

How the prices are spread

$268 – $356: 59 hospitals$268$356 – $473: 27 hospitals$473 – $628: 31 hospitals$473$628 – $834: 72 hospitals$834 – $1,109: 99 hospitals$834$1,109 – $1,474: 93 hospitals$1,474 – $1,958: 125 hospitals$1,474$1,958 – $2,603: 83 hospitals$2,603 – $3,459: 70 hospitals$2,603$3,459 – $4,596: 74 hospitals$3,459median $1,427price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (733 of 812 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$268$35659
$356$47327
$473$62831
$628$83472
$834$1,10999
$1,109$1,47493
$1,474$1,958125
$1,958$2,60383
$2,603$3,45970
$3,459$4,59674

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$1,427
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.9×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,427.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,110 across 13 hospitalsWA$1,110Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $922 across 19 hospitalsMN$922Illinois: median $2,856 across 35 hospitalsIL$2,856Wisconsin: median $1,825 across 29 hospitalsWI$1,825Michigan: median $998 across 25 hospitalsMI$998New York: median $298 across 34 hospitalsNY$298Massachusetts: median $1,142 across 13 hospitalsMA$1,142Oregon: median $1,427 across 15 hospitalsOR$1,427Nevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $354 across 16 hospitalsIA$354Indiana: median $404 across 15 hospitalsIN$404Ohio: median $1,157 across 63 hospitalsOH$1,157Pennsylvania: median $1,742 across 33 hospitalsPA$1,742New Jersey: median $323 across 24 hospitalsNJ$323Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,945 across 69 hospitalsCA$2,945Utah: median $3,659 across 23 hospitalsUT$3,659Colorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,139 across 11 hospitalsNE$1,139Missouri: median $1,003 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,003Kentucky: median $1,093 across 17 hospitalsKY$1,093West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,269 across 22 hospitalsVA$1,269Maryland: median $2,132 across 13 hospitalsMD$2,132Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $537 across 10 hospitalsTN$537North Carolina: median $1,487 across 20 hospitalsNC$1,487South Carolina: median $1,997 across 16 hospitalsSC$1,997Oklahoma: median $174 across 11 hospitalsOK$174Louisiana: median $653 across 13 hospitalsLA$653Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,228 across 37 hospitalsGA$1,228Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,109 across 73 hospitalsTX$1,109Florida: median $1,652 across 58 hospitalsFL$1,652
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,427. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$3,659+156%$3,659 – $3,659
California CA69$2,945+106%$1,487 – $3,378
Illinois IL35$2,856+100%$797 – $3,640
Maryland MD13$2,132+49%$1,421 – $2,687
South Carolina SC16$1,997+40%$592 – $1,997
Wisconsin WI29$1,825+28%$1,147 – $3,663
Pennsylvania PA33$1,742+22%$282 – $5,565
Florida FL58$1,652+16%$1,324 – $2,457
North Carolina NC20$1,487+4%$788 – $1,487
Oregon OR15$1,4270%$1,118 – $1,580
Virginia VA22$1,269−11%$731 – $2,497
Georgia GA37$1,228−14%$203 – $1,446
Ohio OH63$1,157−19%$1,033 – $2,270
Massachusetts MA13$1,142−20%$716 – $2,945
Nebraska NE11$1,139−20%$945 – $1,696
Washington WA13$1,110−22%$517 – $2,069
Texas TX73$1,109−22%$988 – $1,887
Kentucky KY17$1,093−23%$971 – $3,873
Missouri MO20$1,003−30%$469 – $2,563
Michigan MI25$998−30%$328 – $1,648
Minnesota MN19$922−35%$640 – $1,899
Louisiana LA13$653−54%$384 – $1,141
Tennessee TN10$537−62%$124 – $826
Indiana IN15$404−72%$324 – $580
Iowa IA16$354−75%$354 – $1,403
New Jersey NJ24$323−77%$268 – $1,141
New York NY34$298−79%$286 – $1,307
Oklahoma OK11$174−88%$174 – $688
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,427.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care705$1,352$640 – $2,629
Children’s38$2,807$1,637 – $3,912
Critical access65$1,427$497 – $3,087
Ownership
For-profit67$1,314$485 – $3,621
Government80$971$293 – $1,966
Non-profit661$1,461$672 – $3,087
System affiliation
Part of a system752$1,427$653 – $2,945
Independent60$1,246$344 – $2,579

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,665
Median cash price$1,427
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

654 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,487 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,559; most fall between $738 and $2,833.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 654 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$416$886$1,487$2,497$3,659

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($416 vs $3,659).

Of the 700 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 654 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

812 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 871 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted812
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code871

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Brain Functional W/O Physician Admnistration|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Functional MRI of the brain, tests run by technologist (CPT 70554) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70554-functional-mri-of-the-brain-tests-run-by-technologist