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Procedure price report · Routine chest X-ray

Chest X-ray, three views

CPT 71047the billing code this page is about

Chest X-ray consisting of three pictures taken from different angles or positions.

Hospitals typically charge $271 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,913 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $280. Most fall between $138 and $474 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,913
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 2,913 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
$96$160$271$415$723

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($96 vs $723).

How the prices are spread

$77 – $101: 187 hospitals$77$101 – $134: 225 hospitals$134 – $177: 282 hospitals$134$177 – $233: 377 hospitals$233 – $308: 488 hospitals$233$308 – $407: 437 hospitals$407 – $537: 287 hospitals$407$537 – $708: 170 hospitals$708 – $935: 100 hospitals$708$935 – $1,235: 70 hospitals$935median $271price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,623 of 2,913 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$77$101187
$101$134225
$134$177282
$177$233377
$233$308488
$308$407437
$407$537287
$537$708170
$708$935100
$935$1,23570

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$271
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.0×

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 $271.

Alaska: median $359 across 16 hospitalsAK$359Maine: median $217 across 24 hospitalsME$217Vermont: median $548 across 11 hospitalsVT$548New Hampshire: median $226 across 18 hospitalsNH$226Washington: median $273 across 64 hospitalsWA$273Idaho: median $324 across 18 hospitalsID$324Montana: median $241 across 16 hospitalsMT$241North Dakota: median $176 across 23 hospitalsND$176Minnesota: median $176 across 73 hospitalsMN$176Illinois: median $359 across 115 hospitalsIL$359Wisconsin: median $210 across 99 hospitalsWI$210Michigan: median $183 across 78 hospitalsMI$183New York: median $232 across 100 hospitalsNY$232Massachusetts: median $286 across 46 hospitalsMA$286Oregon: median $267 across 42 hospitalsOR$267Nevada: median $420 across 17 hospitalsNV$420Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $391 across 18 hospitalsSD$391Iowa: median $213 across 67 hospitalsIA$213Indiana: median $214 across 89 hospitalsIN$214Ohio: median $290 across 128 hospitalsOH$290Pennsylvania: median $264 across 110 hospitalsPA$264New Jersey: median $113 across 56 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $311 across 19 hospitalsCT$311Rhode Island: median $214 across 10 hospitalsRI$214California: median $484 across 210 hospitalsCA$484Utah: median $351 across 35 hospitalsUT$351Colorado: median $278 across 59 hospitalsCO$278Nebraska: median $321 across 62 hospitalsNE$321Missouri: median $288 across 64 hospitalsMO$288Kentucky: median $287 across 55 hospitalsKY$287West Virginia: median $195 across 33 hospitalsWV$195Virginia: median $224 across 66 hospitalsVA$224Maryland: median $218 across 37 hospitalsMD$218Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $175 across 50 hospitalsAZ$175New Mexico: median $253 across 25 hospitalsNM$253Kansas: median $243 across 63 hospitalsKS$243Arkansas: median $134 across 29 hospitalsAR$134Tennessee: median $109 across 69 hospitalsTN$109North Carolina: median $252 across 84 hospitalsNC$252South Carolina: median $338 across 50 hospitalsSC$338Oklahoma: median $236 across 55 hospitalsOK$236Louisiana: median $119 across 46 hospitalsLA$119Mississippi: median $108 across 38 hospitalsMS$108Alabama: median $177 across 34 hospitalsAL$177Georgia: median $175 across 90 hospitalsGA$175Hawaii: median $284 across 17 hospitalsHI$284Texas: median $372 across 213 hospitalsTX$372Florida: median $574 across 157 hospitalsFL$574
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $271. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL157$574+112%$242 – $2,180
Vermont VT11$548+102%$368 – $675
California CA210$484+78%$273 – $723
Nevada NV17$420+55%$141 – $664
South Dakota SD18$391+44%$354 – $408
Texas TX213$372+37%$228 – $1,020
Alaska AK16$359+33%$172 – $741
Illinois IL115$359+32%$138 – $613
Utah UT35$351+29%$351 – $413
South Carolina SC50$338+25%$278 – $376
Idaho ID18$324+19%$210 – $365
Nebraska NE62$321+18%$243 – $432
Connecticut CT19$311+15%$155 – $474
Ohio OH128$290+7%$202 – $458
Missouri MO64$288+6%$165 – $395
Kentucky KY55$287+6%$155 – $362
Massachusetts MA46$286+5%$189 – $363
Hawaii HI17$284+5%$240 – $367
Colorado CO59$278+3%$207 – $471
Washington WA64$273+1%$170 – $369
Oregon OR42$267−2%$153 – $389
Pennsylvania PA110$264−3%$116 – $499
New Mexico NM25$253−7%$204 – $375
North Carolina NC84$252−7%$194 – $362
Kansas KS63$243−10%$161 – $480
Montana MT16$241−11%$184 – $289
Oklahoma OK55$236−13%$131 – $342
New York NY100$232−14%$104 – $432
New Hampshire NH18$226−17%$156 – $532
Virginia VA66$224−17%$145 – $533
Maryland MD37$218−20%$147 – $280
Maine ME24$217−20%$98 – $491
Rhode Island RI10$214−21%$97 – $286
Indiana IN89$214−21%$123 – $317
Iowa IA67$213−22%$154 – $314
Wisconsin WI99$210−22%$124 – $310
West Virginia WV33$195−28%$150 – $341
Michigan MI78$183−32%$129 – $384
Alabama AL34$177−35%$89 – $433
North Dakota ND23$176−35%$143 – $226
Minnesota MN73$176−35%$94 – $291
Arizona AZ50$175−36%$83 – $1,029
Georgia GA90$175−36%$116 – $388
Arkansas AR29$134−51%$40 – $261
Louisiana LA46$119−56%$75 – $192
New Jersey NJ56$113−58%$97 – $161
Tennessee TN69$109−60%$77 – $298
Mississippi MS38$108−60%$86 – $209
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $271.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,162$275$134 – $524
Children’s52$424$211 – $734
Critical access690$250$143 – $384
Ownership
For-profit420$370$166 – $1,295
Government487$241$127 – $372
Non-profit1,997$267$137 – $453
System affiliation
Part of a system2,438$275$143 – $489
Independent475$238$119 – $412

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$450
Median cash price$271
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

2,027 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $286 and the average of the middle 60% is $296; most fall between $155 and $476.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,027 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
$105$177$286$432$671

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $671).

Of the 2,232 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,027 gave a usable cash price; 110 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 95 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,913 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,215 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,913
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here196
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 — excluded106
Hospitals that filed this code3,215

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 3 Views.

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, three views (CPT 71047) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71047-chest-x-ray-three-views