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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI angiogram of chest blood vessels, with or without dye

CPT 71555the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of the blood vessels in the chest, other than the heart's own arteries; the single price covers the study whether or not contrast is used.

Hospitals typically charge $1,676 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,563 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,741. Most fall between $738 and $2,915 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,563
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,563 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
$498$888$1,676$2,631$3,841

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($498 vs $3,841).

How the prices are spread

$337 – $442: 49 hospitals$337$442 – $580: 96 hospitals$580 – $761: 98 hospitals$580$761 – $999: 128 hospitals$999 – $1,311: 145 hospitals$999$1,311 – $1,720: 212 hospitals$1,720 – $2,257: 215 hospitals$1,720$2,257 – $2,961: 252 hospitals$2,961 – $3,885: 136 hospitals$2,961$3,885 – $5,098: 78 hospitals$3,885median $1,676price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,409 of 1,563 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$337$44249
$442$58096
$580$76198
$761$999128
$999$1,311145
$1,311$1,720212
$1,720$2,257215
$2,257$2,961252
$2,961$3,885136
$3,885$5,09878

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,676.

Alaska: median $1,923 across 10 hospitalsAK$1,923Maine: median $1,162 across 17 hospitalsME$1,162Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,607 across 43 hospitalsWA$1,607Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $2,376 across 11 hospitalsND$2,376Minnesota: median $1,135 across 35 hospitalsMN$1,135Illinois: median $2,341 across 84 hospitalsIL$2,341Wisconsin: median $2,089 across 71 hospitalsWI$2,089Michigan: median $1,511 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,511New York: median $1,447 across 62 hospitalsNY$1,447Massachusetts: median $1,638 across 36 hospitalsMA$1,638Oregon: median $1,553 across 29 hospitalsOR$1,553Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $2,313 across 11 hospitalsSD$2,313Iowa: median $1,353 across 40 hospitalsIA$1,353Indiana: median $699 across 51 hospitalsIN$699Ohio: median $2,058 across 78 hospitalsOH$2,058Pennsylvania: median $1,383 across 47 hospitalsPA$1,383New Jersey: median $894 across 28 hospitalsNJ$894Connecticut: median $1,855 across 16 hospitalsCT$1,855Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,496 across 142 hospitalsCA$2,496Utah: median $2,610 across 26 hospitalsUT$2,610Colorado: median $1,015 across 23 hospitalsCO$1,015Nebraska: median $2,167 across 39 hospitalsNE$2,167Missouri: median $1,271 across 20 hospitalsMO$1,271Kentucky: median $1,068 across 22 hospitalsKY$1,068West Virginia: median $1,499 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,499Virginia: median $1,948 across 17 hospitalsVA$1,948Maryland: median $1,080 across 33 hospitalsMD$1,080Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $544 across 31 hospitalsAZ$544New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,200 across 33 hospitalsKS$1,200Arkansas: median $640 across 10 hospitalsAR$640Tennessee: median $384 across 24 hospitalsTN$384North Carolina: median $1,404 across 39 hospitalsNC$1,404South Carolina: median $2,258 across 30 hospitalsSC$2,258Oklahoma: median $617 across 18 hospitalsOK$617Louisiana: median $737 across 33 hospitalsLA$737Mississippi: median $1,063 across 16 hospitalsMS$1,063Alabama: median $1,583 across 19 hospitalsAL$1,583Georgia: median $1,676 across 36 hospitalsGA$1,676Hawaii: median $1,499 across 11 hospitalsHI$1,499Texas: median $2,459 across 92 hospitalsTX$2,459Florida: median $2,205 across 75 hospitalsFL$2,205
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,676. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT26$2,610+56%$2,610 – $2,798
California CA142$2,496+49%$896 – $6,149
Texas TX92$2,459+47%$1,115 – $2,680
North Dakota ND11$2,376+42%$1,888 – $2,513
Illinois IL84$2,341+40%$1,000 – $3,724
South Dakota SD11$2,313+38%$1,838 – $3,060
South Carolina SC30$2,258+35%$891 – $2,915
Florida FL75$2,205+32%$1,360 – $3,514
Nebraska NE39$2,167+29%$600 – $3,404
Wisconsin WI71$2,089+25%$856 – $3,134
Ohio OH78$2,058+23%$1,399 – $3,750
Virginia VA17$1,948+16%$825 – $2,001
Alaska AK10$1,923+15%$770 – $4,395
Connecticut CT16$1,855+11%$1,005 – $2,325
Georgia GA36$1,6760%$1,196 – $1,943
Massachusetts MA36$1,638−2%$1,058 – $2,898
Washington WA43$1,607−4%$748 – $2,945
Alabama AL19$1,583−6%$400 – $3,371
Oregon OR29$1,553−7%$751 – $2,181
Michigan MI33$1,511−10%$534 – $2,202
West Virginia WV14$1,499−11%$879 – $3,226
Hawaii HI11$1,499−11%$1,066 – $2,550
New York NY62$1,447−14%$905 – $3,729
North Carolina NC39$1,404−16%$918 – $2,154
Pennsylvania PA47$1,383−17%$494 – $2,153
Iowa IA40$1,353−19%$212 – $2,536
Missouri MO20$1,271−24%$946 – $2,446
Kansas KS33$1,200−28%$808 – $2,459
Maine ME17$1,162−31%$524 – $2,299
Minnesota MN35$1,135−32%$664 – $2,088
Maryland MD33$1,080−36%$538 – $1,504
Kentucky KY22$1,068−36%$759 – $3,258
Mississippi MS16$1,063−37%$728 – $1,999
Colorado CO23$1,015−39%$752 – $3,164
New Jersey NJ28$894−47%$415 – $2,965
Louisiana LA33$737−56%$515 – $1,284
Indiana IN51$699−58%$488 – $2,552
Arkansas AR10$640−62%$584 – $954
Oklahoma OK18$617−63%$421 – $2,179
Arizona AZ31$544−68%$349 – $1,963
Tennessee TN24$384−77%$283 – $1,390
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $1,676.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,157$1,559$703 – $2,828
Children’s54$2,528$1,194 – $3,704
Critical access347$1,878$879 – $2,841
Ownership
For-profit138$1,768$643 – $3,132
Government258$1,641$875 – $2,898
Non-profit1,162$1,650$726 – $2,898
System affiliation
Part of a system1,260$1,660$715 – $2,898
Independent303$1,732$821 – $3,084

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,616
Median cash price$1,676
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

1,117 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,790 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,804; most fall between $718 and $2,950.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,117 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
$457$890$1,790$2,680$4,078

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($457 vs $4,078).

Of the 1,270 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,117 gave a usable cash price; 92 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,563 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,836 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,563
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here159
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded110
Hospitals that filed this code1,836

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Mra Chest W/O & W/Contrast Material|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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “MRI angiogram of chest blood vessels, with or without dye (CPT 71555) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-71555-mri-angiogram-of-chest-blood-vessels-with-or-without-dye