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X-ray of the neck spine, four or five views

CPT 72050the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the cervical spine in the neck, using four or five views.

Hospitals typically charge $379 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,326 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $393. Most fall between $190 and $665 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,326
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 3,326 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
$125$220$379$597$1,003

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $1,003).

How the prices are spread

$97 – $128: 196 hospitals$97$128 – $169: 205 hospitals$169 – $223: 276 hospitals$169$223 – $295: 365 hospitals$295 – $389: 514 hospitals$295$389 – $515: 534 hospitals$515 – $680: 453 hospitals$515$680 – $899: 214 hospitals$899 – $1,188: 158 hospitals$899$1,188 – $1,571: 80 hospitals$1,188median $379price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,995 of 3,326 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$97$128196
$128$169205
$169$223276
$223$295365
$295$389514
$389$515534
$515$680453
$680$899214
$899$1,188158
$1,188$1,57180

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$379
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.5×

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 $379.

Alaska: median $624 across 17 hospitalsAK$624Maine: median $246 across 25 hospitalsME$246Vermont: median $682 across 12 hospitalsVT$682New Hampshire: median $359 across 22 hospitalsNH$359Washington: median $410 across 70 hospitalsWA$410Idaho: median $380 across 22 hospitalsID$380Montana: median $308 across 18 hospitalsMT$308North Dakota: median $222 across 32 hospitalsND$222Minnesota: median $285 across 100 hospitalsMN$285Illinois: median $531 across 125 hospitalsIL$531Wisconsin: median $315 across 108 hospitalsWI$315Michigan: median $247 across 87 hospitalsMI$247New York: median $230 across 109 hospitalsNY$230Massachusetts: median $491 across 52 hospitalsMA$491Oregon: median $339 across 46 hospitalsOR$339Nevada: median $506 across 21 hospitalsNV$506Wyoming: median $368 across 14 hospitalsWY$368South Dakota: median $548 across 38 hospitalsSD$548Iowa: median $315 across 86 hospitalsIA$315Indiana: median $302 across 90 hospitalsIN$302Ohio: median $405 across 142 hospitalsOH$405Pennsylvania: median $419 across 115 hospitalsPA$419New Jersey: median $170 across 57 hospitalsNJ$170Connecticut: median $379 across 22 hospitalsCT$379Rhode Island: median $302 across 10 hospitalsRI$302California: median $598 across 219 hospitalsCA$598Utah: median $448 across 40 hospitalsUT$448Colorado: median $360 across 66 hospitalsCO$360Nebraska: median $465 across 81 hospitalsNE$465Missouri: median $412 across 75 hospitalsMO$412Kentucky: median $427 across 67 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $282 across 43 hospitalsWV$282Virginia: median $463 across 71 hospitalsVA$463Maryland: median $255 across 39 hospitalsMD$255Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $166 across 53 hospitalsAZ$166New Mexico: median $346 across 28 hospitalsNM$346Kansas: median $350 across 87 hospitalsKS$350Arkansas: median $168 across 37 hospitalsAR$168Tennessee: median $211 across 77 hospitalsTN$211North Carolina: median $387 across 95 hospitalsNC$387South Carolina: median $479 across 52 hospitalsSC$479Oklahoma: median $298 across 69 hospitalsOK$298Louisiana: median $218 across 54 hospitalsLA$218Mississippi: median $164 across 50 hospitalsMS$164Alabama: median $283 across 42 hospitalsAL$283Georgia: median $374 across 108 hospitalsGA$374Hawaii: median $378 across 19 hospitalsHI$378Texas: median $546 across 236 hospitalsTX$546Florida: median $880 across 172 hospitalsFL$880
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $379. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$880+132%$417 – $3,399
Vermont VT12$682+80%$322 – $925
Alaska AK17$624+65%$314 – $928
California CA219$598+58%$270 – $982
South Dakota SD38$548+45%$463 – $763
Texas TX236$546+44%$283 – $1,003
Illinois IL125$531+40%$263 – $897
Nevada NV21$506+34%$186 – $889
Massachusetts MA52$491+30%$305 – $643
South Carolina SC52$479+26%$243 – $591
Nebraska NE81$465+23%$335 – $577
Virginia VA71$463+22%$272 – $1,012
Utah UT40$448+18%$448 – $532
Kentucky KY67$427+13%$264 – $761
Pennsylvania PA115$419+11%$149 – $766
Missouri MO75$412+9%$186 – $546
Washington WA70$410+8%$208 – $554
Ohio OH142$405+7%$294 – $590
North Carolina NC95$387+2%$283 – $682
Idaho ID22$3800%$290 – $441
Connecticut CT22$3790%$215 – $590
Hawaii HI19$3780%$317 – $460
Georgia GA108$374−1%$145 – $642
Wyoming WY14$368−3%$108 – $594
Colorado CO66$360−5%$293 – $694
New Hampshire NH22$359−5%$276 – $888
Kansas KS87$350−8%$256 – $522
New Mexico NM28$346−9%$236 – $636
Oregon OR46$339−11%$185 – $483
Iowa IA86$315−17%$213 – $421
Wisconsin WI108$315−17%$132 – $488
Montana MT18$308−19%$256 – $377
Indiana IN90$302−20%$212 – $438
Rhode Island RI10$302−20%$149 – $349
Oklahoma OK69$298−21%$185 – $448
Minnesota MN100$285−25%$138 – $451
Alabama AL42$283−25%$141 – $773
West Virginia WV43$282−26%$221 – $403
Maryland MD39$255−33%$171 – $337
Michigan MI87$247−35%$169 – $451
Maine ME25$246−35%$117 – $503
New York NY109$230−39%$126 – $624
North Dakota ND32$222−41%$178 – $343
Louisiana LA54$218−43%$125 – $329
Tennessee TN77$211−44%$116 – $446
New Jersey NJ57$170−55%$125 – $385
Arkansas AR37$168−56%$95 – $365
Arizona AZ53$166−56%$113 – $672
Mississippi MS50$164−57%$109 – $232
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 $379.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,351$391$180 – $734
Children’s65$460$274 – $694
Critical access900$350$200 – $533
Ownership
For-profit482$548$228 – $1,975
Government602$345$177 – $526
Non-profit2,232$367$185 – $624
System affiliation
Part of a system2,735$388$199 – $678
Independent591$336$164 – $555

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$617
Median cash price$379
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

2,276 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $404 and the average of the middle 60% is $414; most fall between $207 and $664.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,276 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
$135$249$404$598$908

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($135 vs $908).

Of the 2,534 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,276 gave a usable cash price; 149 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

3,326 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,692 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,326
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here244
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 code3,692

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 Spine Cervical 4 or 5 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 neck spine, four or five views (CPT 72050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72050-x-ray-of-the-neck-spine-four-or-five-views