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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of ribs, both sides, with chest view, four or more

CPT 71111the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the ribs on both sides together with a front view of the chest, using at least four views in total.

Hospitals typically charge $400 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,159 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $413. Most fall between $196 and $687 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,159
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 3,159 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
$133$231$400$613$1,032

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($133 vs $1,032).

How the prices are spread

$103 – $135: 179 hospitals$103$135 – $178: 217 hospitals$178 – $234: 250 hospitals$178$234 – $308: 337 hospitals$308 – $405: 456 hospitals$308$405 – $533: 497 hospitals$533 – $701: 459 hospitals$533$701 – $923: 245 hospitals$923 – $1,213: 114 hospitals$923$1,213 – $1,596: 94 hospitals$1,213median $400price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,848 of 3,159 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$103$135179
$135$178217
$178$234250
$234$308337
$308$405456
$405$533497
$533$701459
$701$923245
$923$1,213114
$1,213$1,59694

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$400
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.7×

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 $400.

Alaska: median $418 across 16 hospitalsAK$418Maine: median $283 across 25 hospitalsME$283Vermont: median $791 across 11 hospitalsVT$791New Hampshire: median $391 across 20 hospitalsNH$391Washington: median $372 across 67 hospitalsWA$372Idaho: median $441 across 20 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $340 across 19 hospitalsMT$340North Dakota: median $224 across 28 hospitalsND$224Minnesota: median $320 across 94 hospitalsMN$320Illinois: median $537 across 120 hospitalsIL$537Wisconsin: median $339 across 108 hospitalsWI$339Michigan: median $272 across 82 hospitalsMI$272New York: median $275 across 96 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $515 across 51 hospitalsMA$515Oregon: median $341 across 46 hospitalsOR$341Nevada: median $521 across 19 hospitalsNV$521Wyoming: median $395 across 13 hospitalsWY$395South Dakota: median $626 across 32 hospitalsSD$626Iowa: median $366 across 79 hospitalsIA$366Indiana: median $310 across 88 hospitalsIN$310Ohio: median $423 across 140 hospitalsOH$423Pennsylvania: median $455 across 112 hospitalsPA$455New Jersey: median $147 across 55 hospitalsNJ$147Connecticut: median $386 across 22 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: median $302 across 10 hospitalsRI$302California: median $610 across 206 hospitalsCA$610Utah: median $552 across 40 hospitalsUT$552Colorado: median $419 across 64 hospitalsCO$419Nebraska: median $511 across 67 hospitalsNE$511Missouri: median $392 across 72 hospitalsMO$392Kentucky: median $427 across 65 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $299 across 42 hospitalsWV$299Virginia: median $449 across 70 hospitalsVA$449Maryland: median $280 across 38 hospitalsMD$280Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $160 across 52 hospitalsAZ$160New Mexico: median $460 across 27 hospitalsNM$460Kansas: median $377 across 74 hospitalsKS$377Arkansas: median $162 across 38 hospitalsAR$162Tennessee: median $198 across 75 hospitalsTN$198North Carolina: median $380 across 92 hospitalsNC$380South Carolina: median $511 across 52 hospitalsSC$511Oklahoma: median $337 across 65 hospitalsOK$337Louisiana: median $237 across 46 hospitalsLA$237Mississippi: median $196 across 46 hospitalsMS$196Alabama: median $354 across 39 hospitalsAL$354Georgia: median $332 across 108 hospitalsGA$332Hawaii: median $442 across 19 hospitalsHI$442Texas: median $550 across 213 hospitalsTX$550Florida: median $821 across 170 hospitalsFL$821
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $400. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL170$821+105%$490 – $3,337
Vermont VT11$791+98%$664 – $913
South Dakota SD32$626+56%$553 – $964
California CA206$610+52%$281 – $1,121
Utah UT40$552+38%$552 – $784
Texas TX213$550+38%$295 – $1,135
Illinois IL120$537+34%$240 – $930
Nevada NV19$521+30%$113 – $847
Massachusetts MA51$515+29%$341 – $841
Nebraska NE67$511+28%$367 – $601
South Carolina SC52$511+28%$231 – $625
New Mexico NM27$460+15%$254 – $635
Pennsylvania PA112$455+14%$138 – $772
Virginia VA70$449+12%$263 – $815
Hawaii HI19$442+11%$344 – $604
Idaho ID20$441+10%$267 – $472
Kentucky KY65$427+7%$252 – $696
Ohio OH140$423+6%$279 – $555
Colorado CO64$419+5%$301 – $943
Alaska AK16$418+4%$207 – $704
Wyoming WY13$395−1%$137 – $612
Missouri MO72$392−2%$221 – $553
New Hampshire NH20$391−2%$281 – $548
Connecticut CT22$386−4%$217 – $585
North Carolina NC92$380−5%$280 – $619
Kansas KS74$377−6%$270 – $513
Washington WA67$372−7%$282 – $497
Iowa IA79$366−8%$250 – $508
Alabama AL39$354−11%$189 – $665
Oregon OR46$341−15%$194 – $550
Montana MT19$340−15%$219 – $413
Wisconsin WI108$339−15%$148 – $542
Oklahoma OK65$337−16%$210 – $455
Georgia GA108$332−17%$151 – $649
Minnesota MN94$320−20%$138 – $457
Indiana IN88$310−23%$212 – $431
Rhode Island RI10$302−24%$149 – $343
West Virginia WV42$299−25%$204 – $428
Maine ME25$283−29%$140 – $623
Maryland MD38$280−30%$192 – $379
New York NY96$275−31%$126 – $581
Michigan MI82$272−32%$176 – $590
Louisiana LA46$237−41%$146 – $369
North Dakota ND28$224−44%$169 – $410
Tennessee TN75$198−51%$116 – $470
Mississippi MS46$196−51%$135 – $259
Arkansas AR38$162−59%$90 – $335
Arizona AZ52$160−60%$128 – $501
New Jersey NJ55$147−63%$120 – $385
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 $400.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,268$410$188 – $739
Children’s52$519$354 – $778
Critical access829$373$211 – $581
Ownership
For-profit449$580$220 – $1,832
Government548$356$175 – $545
Non-profit2,152$395$195 – $657
System affiliation
Part of a system2,614$414$205 – $716
Independent545$360$166 – $574

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$658
Median cash price$400
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

2,182 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $428 and the average of the middle 60% is $438; most fall between $219 and $697.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,182 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
$139$254$428$629$895

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($139 vs $895).

Of the 2,429 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,182 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 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,159 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 3,511 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,159
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 — excluded119
Hospitals that filed this code3,511

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 Bi W/Posteroant Ch Minimum 4 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, “X-ray of ribs, both sides, with chest view, four or more (CPT 71111) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71111-x-ray-of-ribs-both-sides-with-chest-view-four-or-more