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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Rib X-ray, one side, with chest view, three or more views

CPT 71101the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the ribs on one side taken together with a front chest picture, for a total of at least three images.

Hospitals typically charge $307 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,194 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $323. Most fall between $157 and $543 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,194
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 3,194 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
$108$184$307$477$822

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($108 vs $822).

How the prices are spread

$80 – $105: 144 hospitals$80$105 – $140: 233 hospitals$140 – $185: 268 hospitals$140$185 – $245: 358 hospitals$245 – $325: 530 hospitals$245$325 – $430: 492 hospitals$430 – $570: 424 hospitals$430$570 – $755: 197 hospitals$755 – $1,000: 139 hospitals$755$1,000 – $1,325: 96 hospitals$1,000median $307price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,881 of 3,194 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$80$105144
$105$140233
$140$185268
$185$245358
$245$325530
$325$430492
$430$570424
$570$755197
$755$1,000139
$1,000$1,32596

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$307
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $307.

Alaska: median $476 across 17 hospitalsAK$476Maine: median $239 across 25 hospitalsME$239Vermont: median $664 across 12 hospitalsVT$664New Hampshire: median $335 across 19 hospitalsNH$335Washington: median $327 across 62 hospitalsWA$327Idaho: median $355 across 22 hospitalsID$355Montana: median $262 across 20 hospitalsMT$262North Dakota: median $180 across 26 hospitalsND$180Minnesota: median $274 across 98 hospitalsMN$274Illinois: median $460 across 121 hospitalsIL$460Wisconsin: median $296 across 109 hospitalsWI$296Michigan: median $226 across 81 hospitalsMI$226New York: median $275 across 99 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $390 across 51 hospitalsMA$390Oregon: median $290 across 44 hospitalsOR$290Nevada: median $294 across 20 hospitalsNV$294Wyoming: median $281 across 14 hospitalsWY$281South Dakota: median $514 across 43 hospitalsSD$514Iowa: median $276 across 86 hospitalsIA$276Indiana: median $246 across 87 hospitalsIN$246Ohio: median $328 across 140 hospitalsOH$328Pennsylvania: median $311 across 115 hospitalsPA$311New Jersey: median $140 across 43 hospitalsNJ$140Connecticut: median $355 across 22 hospitalsCT$355Rhode Island: median $286 across 10 hospitalsRI$286California: median $536 across 187 hospitalsCA$536Utah: median $392 across 39 hospitalsUT$392Colorado: median $334 across 65 hospitalsCO$334Nebraska: median $381 across 79 hospitalsNE$381Missouri: median $274 across 70 hospitalsMO$274Kentucky: median $373 across 67 hospitalsKY$373West Virginia: median $245 across 41 hospitalsWV$245Virginia: median $329 across 71 hospitalsVA$329Maryland: median $191 across 38 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $144 across 51 hospitalsAZ$144New Mexico: median $302 across 29 hospitalsNM$302Kansas: median $291 across 83 hospitalsKS$291Arkansas: median $82 across 35 hospitalsAR$82Tennessee: median $144 across 77 hospitalsTN$144North Carolina: median $307 across 95 hospitalsNC$307South Carolina: median $367 across 53 hospitalsSC$367Oklahoma: median $252 across 68 hospitalsOK$252Louisiana: median $175 across 51 hospitalsLA$175Mississippi: median $144 across 47 hospitalsMS$144Alabama: median $232 across 38 hospitalsAL$232Georgia: median $248 across 106 hospitalsGA$248Hawaii: median $299 across 19 hospitalsHI$299Texas: median $383 across 224 hospitalsTX$383Florida: median $662 across 169 hospitalsFL$662
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $307. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$664+116%$518 – $770
Florida FL169$662+116%$364 – $2,801
California CA187$536+74%$253 – $960
South Dakota SD43$514+67%$398 – $812
Alaska AK17$476+55%$255 – $721
Illinois IL121$460+50%$180 – $753
Utah UT39$392+28%$285 – $513
Massachusetts MA51$390+27%$258 – $665
Texas TX224$383+25%$219 – $823
Nebraska NE79$381+24%$236 – $485
Kentucky KY67$373+21%$200 – $535
South Carolina SC53$367+19%$162 – $440
Connecticut CT22$355+16%$215 – $470
Idaho ID22$355+16%$205 – $441
New Hampshire NH19$335+9%$254 – $751
Colorado CO65$334+9%$239 – $812
Virginia VA71$329+7%$203 – $924
Ohio OH140$328+7%$186 – $477
Washington WA62$327+6%$157 – $440
Pennsylvania PA115$311+1%$138 – $552
North Carolina NC95$3070%$217 – $503
New Mexico NM29$302−2%$220 – $488
Hawaii HI19$299−3%$265 – $431
Wisconsin WI109$296−4%$122 – $433
Nevada NV20$294−4%$113 – $638
Kansas KS83$291−5%$221 – $417
Oregon OR44$290−6%$117 – $361
Rhode Island RI10$286−7%$149 – $305
Wyoming WY14$281−8%$84 – $399
Iowa IA86$276−10%$188 – $447
New York NY99$275−10%$126 – $477
Minnesota MN98$274−11%$138 – $404
Missouri MO70$274−11%$159 – $458
Montana MT20$262−15%$140 – $358
Oklahoma OK68$252−18%$200 – $432
Georgia GA106$248−19%$114 – $509
Indiana IN87$246−20%$183 – $365
West Virginia WV41$245−20%$167 – $380
Maine ME25$239−22%$117 – $434
Alabama AL38$232−25%$144 – $535
Michigan MI81$226−26%$144 – $444
Maryland MD38$191−38%$128 – $253
North Dakota ND26$180−41%$145 – $265
Louisiana LA51$175−43%$104 – $287
Mississippi MS47$144−53%$86 – $198
Tennessee TN77$144−53%$77 – $367
Arizona AZ51$144−53%$93 – $488
New Jersey NJ43$140−55%$118 – $396
Arkansas AR35$82−73%$75 – $222
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 $307.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,256$315$155 – $616
Children’s53$422$230 – $611
Critical access875$290$159 – $451
Ownership
For-profit472$396$181 – $1,556
Government579$287$142 – $430
Non-profit2,133$303$156 – $524
System affiliation
Part of a system2,636$318$162 – $567
Independent558$269$135 – $446

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$513
Median cash price$307
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

2,213 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $329 and the average of the middle 60% is $339; most fall between $175 and $538.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,213 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
$119$205$329$488$742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($119 vs $742).

Of the 2,461 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,213 gave a usable cash price; 139 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,194 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,574 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,194
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here247
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,574

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 Uni W/Posteroant Ch Minimum 3 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, with chest view, three or more views (CPT 71101) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71101-rib-x-ray-one-side-with-chest-view-three-or-more-views