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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Rib X-ray, one side, two views

CPT 71100the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the ribs on one side of the body, taken as two pictures.

Hospitals typically charge $246 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,165 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $259. Most fall between $125 and $440 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,165
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,165 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
$88$149$246$393$659

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $659).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $87: 156 hospitals$66$87 – $114: 237 hospitals$114 – $151: 257 hospitals$114$151 – $199: 361 hospitals$199 – $261: 494 hospitals$199$261 – $344: 520 hospitals$344 – $453: 392 hospitals$344$453 – $597: 218 hospitals$597 – $786: 130 hospitals$597$786 – $1,036: 85 hospitals$786median $246price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,850 of 3,165 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$87156
$87$114237
$114$151257
$151$199361
$199$261494
$261$344520
$344$453392
$453$597218
$597$786130
$786$1,03685

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$246
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $246.

Alaska: median $287 across 16 hospitalsAK$287Maine: median $178 across 25 hospitalsME$178Vermont: median $483 across 12 hospitalsVT$483New Hampshire: median $238 across 21 hospitalsNH$238Washington: median $243 across 62 hospitalsWA$243Idaho: median $259 across 22 hospitalsID$259Montana: median $225 across 19 hospitalsMT$225North Dakota: median $174 across 23 hospitalsND$174Minnesota: median $190 across 98 hospitalsMN$190Illinois: median $355 across 121 hospitalsIL$355Wisconsin: median $223 across 107 hospitalsWI$223Michigan: median $174 across 84 hospitalsMI$174New York: median $206 across 101 hospitalsNY$206Massachusetts: median $312 across 45 hospitalsMA$312Oregon: median $234 across 45 hospitalsOR$234Nevada: median $255 across 15 hospitalsNV$255Wyoming: median $233 across 13 hospitalsWY$233South Dakota: median $412 across 41 hospitalsSD$412Iowa: median $218 across 87 hospitalsIA$218Indiana: median $200 across 85 hospitalsIN$200Ohio: median $254 across 138 hospitalsOH$254Pennsylvania: median $194 across 116 hospitalsPA$194New Jersey: median $113 across 44 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $255 across 22 hospitalsCT$255Rhode Island: median $212 across 10 hospitalsRI$212California: median $461 across 185 hospitalsCA$461Utah: median $310 across 42 hospitalsUT$310Colorado: median $274 across 60 hospitalsCO$274Nebraska: median $300 across 82 hospitalsNE$300Missouri: median $236 across 73 hospitalsMO$236Kentucky: median $294 across 65 hospitalsKY$294West Virginia: median $192 across 43 hospitalsWV$192Virginia: median $283 across 71 hospitalsVA$283Maryland: median $186 across 38 hospitalsMD$186Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $120 across 50 hospitalsAZ$120New Mexico: median $260 across 27 hospitalsNM$260Kansas: median $221 across 85 hospitalsKS$221Arkansas: median $77 across 35 hospitalsAR$77Tennessee: median $140 across 78 hospitalsTN$140North Carolina: median $224 across 95 hospitalsNC$224South Carolina: median $323 across 52 hospitalsSC$323Oklahoma: median $217 across 69 hospitalsOK$217Louisiana: median $140 across 52 hospitalsLA$140Mississippi: median $98 across 43 hospitalsMS$98Alabama: median $207 across 41 hospitalsAL$207Georgia: median $215 across 99 hospitalsGA$215Hawaii: median $263 across 19 hospitalsHI$263Texas: median $335 across 224 hospitalsTX$335Florida: median $583 across 159 hospitalsFL$583
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $246. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL159$583+137%$280 – $2,065
Vermont VT12$483+96%$362 – $703
California CA185$461+88%$235 – $756
South Dakota SD41$412+68%$322 – $672
Illinois IL121$355+44%$158 – $618
Texas TX224$335+36%$199 – $652
South Carolina SC52$323+31%$155 – $362
Massachusetts MA45$312+27%$186 – $479
Utah UT42$310+26%$224 – $384
Nebraska NE82$300+22%$169 – $392
Kentucky KY65$294+19%$129 – $478
Alaska AK16$287+17%$133 – $519
Virginia VA71$283+15%$150 – $449
Colorado CO60$274+11%$200 – $565
Hawaii HI19$263+7%$226 – $357
New Mexico NM27$260+6%$150 – $335
Idaho ID22$259+5%$170 – $365
Connecticut CT22$255+4%$118 – $409
Nevada NV15$255+4%$94 – $578
Ohio OH138$254+3%$178 – $396
Washington WA62$243−1%$128 – $362
New Hampshire NH21$238−3%$199 – $391
Missouri MO73$236−4%$139 – $375
Oregon OR45$234−5%$120 – $305
Wyoming WY13$233−5%$84 – $298
Montana MT19$225−9%$165 – $309
North Carolina NC95$224−9%$191 – $334
Wisconsin WI107$223−10%$100 – $338
Kansas KS85$221−10%$152 – $319
Iowa IA87$218−11%$154 – $300
Oklahoma OK69$217−12%$161 – $334
Georgia GA99$215−12%$89 – $434
Rhode Island RI10$212−14%$94 – $286
Alabama AL41$207−16%$82 – $370
New York NY101$206−16%$104 – $464
Indiana IN85$200−19%$118 – $286
Pennsylvania PA116$194−21%$103 – $457
West Virginia WV43$192−22%$132 – $333
Minnesota MN98$190−23%$100 – $303
Maryland MD38$186−24%$128 – $241
Maine ME25$178−28%$85 – $395
Michigan MI84$174−29%$120 – $334
North Dakota ND23$174−29%$119 – $238
Tennessee TN78$140−43%$66 – $245
Louisiana LA52$140−43%$79 – $200
Arizona AZ50$120−51%$81 – $302
New Jersey NJ44$113−54%$97 – $390
Mississippi MS43$98−60%$66 – $144
Arkansas AR35$77−69%$71 – $218
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 $246.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,229$257$121 – $479
Children’s63$315$205 – $509
Critical access863$233$130 – $364
Ownership
For-profit463$342$143 – $1,243
Government581$222$107 – $343
Non-profit2,111$243$128 – $417
System affiliation
Part of a system2,614$259$133 – $455
Independent551$215$104 – $354

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$407
Median cash price$246
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

2,205 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $271 and the average of the middle 60% is $274; most fall between $139 and $438.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,205 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
$100$167$271$395$583

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($100 vs $583).

Of the 2,451 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,205 gave a usable cash price; 136 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,165 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,531 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,165
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here232
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 — excluded133
Hospitals that filed this code3,531

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 Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radex Ribs Unilateral 2 Views|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, “Rib X-ray, one side, two views (CPT 71100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71100-rib-x-ray-one-side-two-views