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Procedure price report · Routine chest X-ray

Chest X-ray, four or more views

CPT 71048the billing code this page is about

Chest X-ray consisting of at least four pictures taken from different angles or positions.

Hospitals typically charge $324 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,783 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $334. Most fall between $162 and $575 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,783
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 2,783 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
$116$186$324$507$832

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($116 vs $832).

How the prices are spread

$90 – $118: 150 hospitals$90$118 – $154: 225 hospitals$154 – $202: 259 hospitals$154$202 – $264: 328 hospitals$264 – $345: 396 hospitals$264$345 – $451: 430 hospitals$451 – $589: 322 hospitals$451$589 – $770: 194 hospitals$770 – $1,007: 126 hospitals$770$1,007 – $1,316: 75 hospitals$1,007median $324price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,505 of 2,783 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$90$118150
$118$154225
$154$202259
$202$264328
$264$345396
$345$451430
$451$589322
$589$770194
$770$1,007126
$1,007$1,31675

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$324
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 $324.

Alaska: median $399 across 14 hospitalsAK$399Maine: median $232 across 23 hospitalsME$232Vermont: median $630 across 12 hospitalsVT$630New Hampshire: median $367 across 18 hospitalsNH$367Washington: median $358 across 64 hospitalsWA$358Idaho: median $428 across 18 hospitalsID$428Montana: median $241 across 14 hospitalsMT$241North Dakota: median $193 across 21 hospitalsND$193Minnesota: median $138 across 46 hospitalsMN$138Illinois: median $412 across 114 hospitalsIL$412Wisconsin: median $261 across 90 hospitalsWI$261Michigan: median $246 across 81 hospitalsMI$246New York: median $275 across 93 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $416 across 48 hospitalsMA$416Oregon: median $324 across 43 hospitalsOR$324Nevada: median $406 across 16 hospitalsNV$406Wyoming: median $347 across 12 hospitalsWY$347South Dakota: median $442 across 18 hospitalsSD$442Iowa: median $261 across 53 hospitalsIA$261Indiana: median $273 across 83 hospitalsIN$273Ohio: median $357 across 132 hospitalsOH$357Pennsylvania: median $322 across 111 hospitalsPA$322New Jersey: median $128 across 56 hospitalsNJ$128Connecticut: median $254 across 15 hospitalsCT$254Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $535 across 214 hospitalsCA$535Utah: median $428 across 36 hospitalsUT$428Colorado: median $337 across 52 hospitalsCO$337Nebraska: median $342 across 48 hospitalsNE$342Missouri: median $325 across 66 hospitalsMO$325Kentucky: median $284 across 56 hospitalsKY$284West Virginia: median $174 across 36 hospitalsWV$174Virginia: median $272 across 62 hospitalsVA$272Maryland: median $225 across 36 hospitalsMD$225Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $293 across 48 hospitalsAZ$293New Mexico: median $347 across 20 hospitalsNM$347Kansas: median $256 across 52 hospitalsKS$256Arkansas: median $217 across 21 hospitalsAR$217Tennessee: median $170 across 62 hospitalsTN$170North Carolina: median $279 across 79 hospitalsNC$279South Carolina: median $364 across 52 hospitalsSC$364Oklahoma: median $307 across 50 hospitalsOK$307Louisiana: median $152 across 46 hospitalsLA$152Mississippi: median $164 across 41 hospitalsMS$164Alabama: median $216 across 33 hospitalsAL$216Georgia: median $186 across 84 hospitalsGA$186Hawaii: median $344 across 18 hospitalsHI$344Texas: median $403 across 210 hospitalsTX$403Florida: median $704 across 152 hospitalsFL$704
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $324. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL152$704+117%$283 – $2,260
Vermont VT12$630+95%$554 – $733
California CA214$535+65%$296 – $832
South Dakota SD18$442+37%$368 – $502
Utah UT36$428+32%$361 – $428
Idaho ID18$428+32%$220 – $441
Massachusetts MA48$416+28%$321 – $513
Illinois IL114$412+27%$234 – $703
Nevada NV16$406+25%$226 – $710
Texas TX210$403+24%$239 – $1,153
Alaska AK14$399+23%$281 – $851
New Hampshire NH18$367+13%$193 – $642
South Carolina SC52$364+12%$191 – $450
Washington WA64$358+11%$197 – $475
Ohio OH132$357+10%$218 – $507
New Mexico NM20$347+7%$262 – $525
Wyoming WY12$347+7%$142 – $447
Hawaii HI18$344+6%$296 – $458
Nebraska NE48$342+6%$273 – $442
Colorado CO52$337+4%$237 – $551
Missouri MO66$3250%$211 – $495
Oregon OR43$3240%$220 – $479
Pennsylvania PA111$3220%$151 – $508
Oklahoma OK50$307−5%$133 – $466
Arizona AZ48$293−10%$102 – $1,074
Kentucky KY56$284−12%$146 – $497
North Carolina NC79$279−14%$202 – $426
New York NY93$275−15%$126 – $513
Indiana IN83$273−16%$183 – $356
Virginia VA62$272−16%$178 – $889
Wisconsin WI90$261−19%$144 – $388
Iowa IA53$261−20%$199 – $365
Kansas KS52$256−21%$154 – $436
Connecticut CT15$254−21%$149 – $454
Michigan MI81$246−24%$144 – $496
Montana MT14$241−26%$178 – $378
Maine ME23$232−28%$143 – $645
Maryland MD36$225−31%$167 – $295
Arkansas AR21$217−33%$77 – $304
Alabama AL33$216−33%$150 – $405
North Dakota ND21$193−40%$162 – $251
Georgia GA84$186−42%$104 – $551
West Virginia WV36$174−46%$150 – $348
Tennessee TN62$170−48%$83 – $380
Mississippi MS41$164−49%$123 – $224
Louisiana LA46$152−53%$96 – $256
Minnesota MN46$138−57%$88 – $422
New Jersey NJ56$128−60%$116 – $243
Rhode Island RI8not 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 $324.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,092$330$158 – $618
Children’s62$475$310 – $683
Critical access620$292$168 – $441
Ownership
For-profit405$473$186 – $1,500
Government438$266$140 – $413
Non-profit1,931$322$164 – $531
System affiliation
Part of a system2,319$334$170 – $597
Independent464$263$133 – $502

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$549
Median cash price$324
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

1,938 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $344 and the average of the middle 60% is $349; most fall between $174 and $564.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,938 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
$121$205$344$507$761

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($121 vs $761).

Of the 2,137 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,938 gave a usable cash price; 106 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,783 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,073 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,783
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here186
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 — excluded103
Hospitals that filed this code3,073

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 Routine chest X-ray family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radiologic Exam Chest 4+ 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Chest X-ray, four or more views (CPT 71048) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71048-chest-x-ray-four-or-more-views