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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

Functional MRI of the brain with tests run by a clinician

CPT 70555the billing code this page is about

Brain MRI that maps activity during tasks, where a physician or psychologist directly administers the test activities during the scan.

Hospitals typically charge $1,355 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 571 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,454. Most fall between $368 and $3,562 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
571
States
45
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 571 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
$245$467$1,355$2,687$3,960

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $3,960).

How the prices are spread

$221 – $303: 69 hospitals$221$303 – $414: 39 hospitals$414 – $567: 23 hospitals$414$567 – $777: 39 hospitals$777 – $1,064: 48 hospitals$777$1,064 – $1,457: 47 hospitals$1,457 – $1,996: 86 hospitals$1,457$1,996 – $2,733: 51 hospitals$2,733 – $3,743: 58 hospitals$2,733$3,743 – $5,126: 55 hospitals$3,743median $1,355price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (515 of 571 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$221$30369
$303$41439
$414$56723
$567$77739
$777$1,06448
$1,064$1,45747
$1,457$1,99686
$1,996$2,73351
$2,733$3,74358
$3,743$5,12655

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$1,355
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.6×

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 $1,355.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $653 across 11 hospitalsWA$653Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,305 across 25 hospitalsIL$3,305Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $929 across 22 hospitalsMI$929New York: median $286 across 27 hospitalsNY$286Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $240 across 14 hospitalsIA$240Indiana: median $370 across 13 hospitalsIN$370Ohio: median $1,750 across 26 hospitalsOH$1,750Pennsylvania: median $520 across 38 hospitalsPA$520New Jersey: median $309 across 19 hospitalsNJ$309Connecticut: 7 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 $3,595 across 49 hospitalsCA$3,595Utah: median $3,960 across 23 hospitalsUT$3,960Colorado: median $3,602 across 15 hospitalsCO$3,602Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $529 across 11 hospitalsMO$529Kentucky: median $3,911 across 13 hospitalsKY$3,911West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,639 across 21 hospitalsVA$1,639Maryland: median $2,385 across 11 hospitalsMD$2,385Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $207 across 10 hospitalsOK$207Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $414 across 18 hospitalsGA$414Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,486 across 55 hospitalsTX$1,486Florida: median $1,355 across 45 hospitalsFL$1,355
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,355. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT23$3,960+192%$3,960 – $3,960
Kentucky KY13$3,911+189%$918 – $3,911
Colorado CO15$3,602+166%$3,562 – $7,729
California CA49$3,595+165%$2,022 – $3,595
Illinois IL25$3,305+144%$1,500 – $4,162
Maryland MD11$2,385+76%$1,425 – $2,687
Ohio OH26$1,750+29%$1,064 – $1,870
Virginia VA21$1,639+21%$591 – $2,011
Texas TX55$1,486+10%$372 – $2,164
Florida FL45$1,3550%$793 – $1,710
Michigan MI22$929−31%$328 – $1,647
Washington WA11$653−52%$517 – $1,602
Missouri MO11$529−61%$362 – $1,313
Pennsylvania PA38$520−62%$87 – $4,186
Georgia GA18$414−69%$414 – $1,837
Indiana IN13$370−73%$324 – $523
New Jersey NJ19$309−77%$268 – $3,473
New York NY27$286−79%$286 – $1,175
Iowa IA14$240−82%$240 – $1,186
Oklahoma OK10$207−85%$207 – $207
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $1,355.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care493$1,196$362 – $3,456
Children’s38$3,018$1,424 – $5,223
Critical access36$1,192$293 – $3,087
Ownership
For-profit33$1,486$414 – $4,156
Government58$414$245 – $1,749
Non-profit476$1,486$414 – $3,595
System affiliation
Part of a system515$1,355$368 – $3,562
Independent56$1,338$344 – $3,473

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,407
Median cash price$1,355
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

411 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,561 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,654; most fall between $527 and $3,562.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 411 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
$240$747$1,561$3,018$3,960

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($240 vs $3,960).

Of the 451 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 411 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

571 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 629 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted571
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code629

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 23, 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/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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Functional MRI of the brain with tests run by a clinician (CPT 70555) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70555-functional-mri-of-the-brain-with-tests-run-by-a-clinician