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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the breastbone, two or more views

CPT 71120the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the sternum in the center of the chest, taken from at least two angles.

Hospitals typically charge $232 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,272 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $244. Most fall between $121 and $416 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,272
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 3,272 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
$86$141$232$369$613

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $613).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $86: 158 hospitals$66$86 – $113: 253 hospitals$113 – $148: 298 hospitals$113$148 – $194: 420 hospitals$194 – $254: 517 hospitals$194$254 – $334: 467 hospitals$334 – $437: 388 hospitals$334$437 – $574: 238 hospitals$574 – $753: 141 hospitals$574$753 – $987: 66 hospitals$753median $232price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,946 of 3,272 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$86158
$86$113253
$113$148298
$148$194420
$194$254517
$254$334467
$334$437388
$437$574238
$574$753141
$753$98766

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$232
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $232.

Alaska: median $322 across 16 hospitalsAK$322Maine: median $190 across 25 hospitalsME$190Vermont: median $415 across 12 hospitalsVT$415New Hampshire: median $243 across 21 hospitalsNH$243Washington: median $226 across 69 hospitalsWA$226Idaho: median $289 across 21 hospitalsID$289Montana: median $189 across 20 hospitalsMT$189North Dakota: median $148 across 29 hospitalsND$148Minnesota: median $189 across 93 hospitalsMN$189Illinois: median $259 across 123 hospitalsIL$259Wisconsin: median $227 across 105 hospitalsWI$227Michigan: median $179 across 86 hospitalsMI$179New York: median $202 across 101 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $303 across 51 hospitalsMA$303Oregon: median $224 across 46 hospitalsOR$224Nevada: median $324 across 21 hospitalsNV$324Wyoming: median $163 across 14 hospitalsWY$163South Dakota: median $332 across 30 hospitalsSD$332Iowa: median $191 across 84 hospitalsIA$191Indiana: median $195 across 89 hospitalsIN$195Ohio: median $275 across 142 hospitalsOH$275Pennsylvania: median $188 across 115 hospitalsPA$188New Jersey: median $117 across 57 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $238 across 22 hospitalsCT$238Rhode Island: median $221 across 10 hospitalsRI$221California: median $391 across 215 hospitalsCA$391Utah: median $376 across 41 hospitalsUT$376Colorado: median $246 across 65 hospitalsCO$246Nebraska: median $289 across 80 hospitalsNE$289Missouri: median $220 across 76 hospitalsMO$220Kentucky: median $243 across 67 hospitalsKY$243West Virginia: median $192 across 43 hospitalsWV$192Virginia: median $258 across 69 hospitalsVA$258Maryland: median $155 across 38 hospitalsMD$155Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $125 across 53 hospitalsAZ$125New Mexico: median $242 across 28 hospitalsNM$242Kansas: median $213 across 83 hospitalsKS$213Arkansas: median $107 across 35 hospitalsAR$107Tennessee: median $114 across 78 hospitalsTN$114North Carolina: median $221 across 93 hospitalsNC$221South Carolina: median $333 across 53 hospitalsSC$333Oklahoma: median $172 across 67 hospitalsOK$172Louisiana: median $133 across 55 hospitalsLA$133Mississippi: median $117 across 50 hospitalsMS$117Alabama: median $189 across 43 hospitalsAL$189Georgia: median $212 across 107 hospitalsGA$212Hawaii: median $272 across 19 hospitalsHI$272Texas: median $279 across 234 hospitalsTX$279Florida: median $602 across 172 hospitalsFL$602
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $232. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$602+160%$297 – $2,125
Vermont VT12$415+79%$360 – $606
California CA215$391+68%$211 – $669
Utah UT41$376+62%$376 – $412
South Carolina SC53$333+43%$118 – $402
South Dakota SD30$332+43%$237 – $411
Nevada NV21$324+39%$106 – $550
Alaska AK16$322+39%$244 – $674
Massachusetts MA51$303+31%$206 – $443
Nebraska NE80$289+25%$115 – $379
Idaho ID21$289+24%$172 – $365
Texas TX234$279+20%$176 – $576
Ohio OH142$275+19%$182 – $400
Hawaii HI19$272+17%$240 – $354
Illinois IL123$259+12%$125 – $470
Virginia VA69$258+11%$150 – $631
Colorado CO65$246+6%$189 – $448
Kentucky KY67$243+5%$155 – $486
New Hampshire NH21$243+5%$178 – $509
New Mexico NM28$242+4%$171 – $361
Connecticut CT22$238+2%$134 – $374
Wisconsin WI105$227−2%$111 – $296
Washington WA69$226−2%$151 – $335
Oregon OR46$224−3%$74 – $309
North Carolina NC93$221−5%$134 – $280
Rhode Island RI10$221−5%$94 – $286
Missouri MO76$220−5%$137 – $338
Kansas KS83$213−8%$143 – $277
Georgia GA107$212−9%$104 – $384
New York NY101$202−13%$104 – $393
Indiana IN89$195−16%$129 – $284
West Virginia WV43$192−17%$146 – $333
Iowa IA84$191−18%$144 – $271
Maine ME25$190−18%$97 – $397
Alabama AL43$189−18%$102 – $485
Montana MT20$189−19%$137 – $255
Minnesota MN93$189−19%$106 – $276
Pennsylvania PA115$188−19%$105 – $443
Michigan MI86$179−23%$115 – $323
Oklahoma OK67$172−26%$114 – $260
Wyoming WY14$163−30%$67 – $406
Maryland MD38$155−33%$107 – $201
North Dakota ND29$148−36%$120 – $209
Louisiana LA55$133−43%$79 – $218
Arizona AZ53$125−46%$87 – $432
New Jersey NJ57$117−49%$97 – $215
Mississippi MS50$117−50%$72 – $150
Tennessee TN78$114−51%$64 – $299
Arkansas AR35$107−54%$74 – $172
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 $232.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,324$235$118 – $475
Children’s62$305$195 – $500
Critical access876$218$125 – $334
Ownership
For-profit475$329$135 – $1,180
Government591$207$110 – $322
Non-profit2,196$230$122 – $395
System affiliation
Part of a system2,687$237$125 – $434
Independent585$206$107 – $359

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$387
Median cash price$232
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

2,232 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $243 and the average of the middle 60% is $255; most fall between $132 and $414.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,232 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
$90$150$243$376$564

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($90 vs $564).

Of the 2,478 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,232 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 107 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,272 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,630 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,272
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here236
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 — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code3,630

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 Sternum Minimum 2 Views|TECHNICAL 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 the breastbone, two or more views (CPT 71120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71120-x-ray-of-the-breastbone-two-or-more-views