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Procedure price report · Routine chest X-ray

Chest X-ray, single view

CPT 71045the billing code this page is about

One X-ray picture of the chest, usually taken from the front.

Hospitals typically charge $194 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,373 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $202. Most fall between $100 and $350 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,373
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,373 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
$70$112$194$306$498

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($70 vs $498).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $66: 137 hospitals$50$66 – $87: 227 hospitals$87 – $115: 346 hospitals$87$115 – $151: 382 hospitals$151 – $199: 469 hospitals$151$199 – $263: 545 hospitals$263 – $347: 415 hospitals$263$347 – $457: 290 hospitals$457 – $603: 132 hospitals$457$603 – $795: 97 hospitals$603median $194price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,040 of 3,373 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$66137
$66$87227
$87$115346
$115$151382
$151$199469
$199$263545
$263$347415
$347$457290
$457$603132
$603$79597

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$194
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $194.

Alaska: median $243 across 17 hospitalsAK$243Maine: median $156 across 25 hospitalsME$156Vermont: median $362 across 12 hospitalsVT$362New Hampshire: median $171 across 22 hospitalsNH$171Washington: median $220 across 71 hospitalsWA$220Idaho: median $244 across 22 hospitalsID$244Montana: median $180 across 20 hospitalsMT$180North Dakota: median $137 across 31 hospitalsND$137Minnesota: median $190 across 101 hospitalsMN$190Illinois: median $236 across 128 hospitalsIL$236Wisconsin: median $150 across 110 hospitalsWI$150Michigan: median $154 across 87 hospitalsMI$154New York: median $168 across 115 hospitalsNY$168Massachusetts: median $257 across 54 hospitalsMA$257Oregon: median $176 across 46 hospitalsOR$176Nevada: median $275 across 21 hospitalsNV$275Wyoming: median $158 across 14 hospitalsWY$158South Dakota: median $350 across 43 hospitalsSD$350Iowa: median $168 across 88 hospitalsIA$168Indiana: median $154 across 91 hospitalsIN$154Ohio: median $213 across 144 hospitalsOH$213Pennsylvania: median $156 across 116 hospitalsPA$156New Jersey: median $108 across 58 hospitalsNJ$108Connecticut: median $285 across 21 hospitalsCT$285Rhode Island: median $97 across 10 hospitalsRI$97California: median $364 across 216 hospitalsCA$364Utah: median $272 across 42 hospitalsUT$272Colorado: median $245 across 66 hospitalsCO$245Nebraska: median $256 across 85 hospitalsNE$256Missouri: median $183 across 76 hospitalsMO$183Kentucky: median $206 across 67 hospitalsKY$206West Virginia: median $153 across 43 hospitalsWV$153Virginia: median $187 across 71 hospitalsVA$187Maryland: median $107 across 39 hospitalsMD$107Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $86 across 54 hospitalsAZ$86New Mexico: median $197 across 29 hospitalsNM$197Kansas: median $180 across 91 hospitalsKS$180Arkansas: median $74 across 38 hospitalsAR$74Tennessee: median $109 across 77 hospitalsTN$109North Carolina: median $187 across 96 hospitalsNC$187South Carolina: median $209 across 53 hospitalsSC$209Oklahoma: median $173 across 70 hospitalsOK$173Louisiana: median $113 across 56 hospitalsLA$113Mississippi: median $96 across 50 hospitalsMS$96Alabama: median $138 across 42 hospitalsAL$138Georgia: median $124 across 106 hospitalsGA$124Hawaii: median $240 across 19 hospitalsHI$240Texas: median $324 across 240 hospitalsTX$324Florida: median $364 across 174 hospitalsFL$364
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $194. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA216$364+88%$160 – $662
Florida FL174$364+88%$144 – $1,004
Vermont VT12$362+87%$219 – $387
South Dakota SD43$350+80%$289 – $431
Texas TX240$324+67%$149 – $835
Connecticut CT21$285+47%$118 – $311
Nevada NV21$275+42%$110 – $429
Utah UT42$272+41%$222 – $303
Massachusetts MA54$257+33%$154 – $325
Nebraska NE85$256+32%$138 – $317
Colorado CO66$245+26%$113 – $325
Idaho ID22$244+26%$161 – $365
Alaska AK17$243+25%$163 – $646
Hawaii HI19$240+24%$193 – $315
Illinois IL128$236+22%$125 – $407
Washington WA71$220+13%$124 – $293
Ohio OH144$213+10%$135 – $322
South Carolina SC53$209+8%$174 – $263
Kentucky KY67$206+6%$116 – $354
New Mexico NM29$197+1%$122 – $259
Minnesota MN101$190−2%$102 – $269
North Carolina NC96$187−4%$127 – $247
Virginia VA71$187−4%$100 – $311
Missouri MO76$183−6%$122 – $286
Kansas KS91$180−7%$121 – $260
Montana MT20$180−7%$101 – $245
Oregon OR46$176−9%$66 – $288
Oklahoma OK70$173−11%$95 – $256
New Hampshire NH22$171−12%$148 – $335
New York NY115$168−13%$68 – $271
Iowa IA88$168−13%$129 – $237
Wyoming WY14$158−18%$60 – $251
Pennsylvania PA116$156−20%$100 – $374
Maine ME25$156−20%$92 – $332
Michigan MI87$154−21%$86 – $247
Indiana IN91$154−21%$77 – $234
West Virginia WV43$153−21%$96 – $250
Wisconsin WI110$150−22%$82 – $258
Alabama AL42$138−29%$78 – $238
North Dakota ND31$137−29%$86 – $212
Georgia GA106$124−36%$71 – $336
Louisiana LA56$113−42%$65 – $186
Tennessee TN77$109−44%$66 – $213
New Jersey NJ58$108−44%$97 – $215
Maryland MD39$107−45%$78 – $145
Rhode Island RI10$97−50%$82 – $227
Mississippi MS50$96−50%$67 – $128
Arizona AZ54$86−56%$62 – $298
Arkansas AR38$74−62%$43 – $137
Delaware DE6not 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 $194.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,370$200$98 – $383
Children’s70$262$155 – $427
Critical access923$182$100 – $288
Ownership
For-profit494$272$111 – $851
Government608$181$93 – $275
Non-profit2,261$189$99 – $335
System affiliation
Part of a system2,761$202$104 – $359
Independent612$177$86 – $285

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$323
Median cash price$194
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,307 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $214 and the average of the middle 60% is $216; most fall between $107 and $356.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,307 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
$74$124$214$324$468

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $468).

Of the 2,565 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,307 gave a usable cash price; 145 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 113 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,373 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,747 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,373
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here248
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,747

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 July 20, 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 Routine chest X-ray family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radiologic Exam Chest Single View.

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, “Chest X-ray, single view (CPT 71045) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71045-chest-x-ray-single-view