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X-ray of the neck spine, six or more views

CPT 72052the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the cervical spine in the neck using six or more views, which may include bending forward and backward.

Hospitals typically charge $439 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,213 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $450. Most fall between $212 and $748 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,213
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 3,213 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
$139$254$439$676$1,165

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($139 vs $1,165).

How the prices are spread

$105 – $140: 174 hospitals$105$140 – $187: 204 hospitals$187 – $249: 248 hospitals$187$249 – $332: 382 hospitals$332 – $443: 456 hospitals$332$443 – $590: 523 hospitals$590 – $787: 499 hospitals$590$787 – $1,048: 173 hospitals$1,048 – $1,397: 170 hospitals$1,048$1,397 – $1,862: 67 hospitals$1,397median $439price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,896 of 3,213 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$105$140174
$140$187204
$187$249248
$249$332382
$332$443456
$443$590523
$590$787499
$787$1,048173
$1,048$1,397170
$1,397$1,86267

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$439
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.1×

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 $439.

Alaska: median $749 across 17 hospitalsAK$749Maine: median $257 across 24 hospitalsME$257Vermont: median $682 across 12 hospitalsVT$682New Hampshire: median $443 across 22 hospitalsNH$443Washington: median $456 across 70 hospitalsWA$456Idaho: median $441 across 21 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $372 across 18 hospitalsMT$372North Dakota: median $283 across 27 hospitalsND$283Minnesota: median $306 across 82 hospitalsMN$306Illinois: median $560 across 124 hospitalsIL$560Wisconsin: median $344 across 104 hospitalsWI$344Michigan: median $308 across 85 hospitalsMI$308New York: median $275 across 111 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $637 across 50 hospitalsMA$637Oregon: median $408 across 45 hospitalsOR$408Nevada: median $634 across 20 hospitalsNV$634Wyoming: median $460 across 13 hospitalsWY$460South Dakota: median $664 across 24 hospitalsSD$664Iowa: median $362 across 74 hospitalsIA$362Indiana: median $315 across 89 hospitalsIN$315Ohio: median $477 across 143 hospitalsOH$477Pennsylvania: median $481 across 114 hospitalsPA$481New Jersey: median $186 across 58 hospitalsNJ$186Connecticut: median $386 across 22 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: median $285 across 10 hospitalsRI$285California: median $678 across 212 hospitalsCA$678Utah: median $676 across 36 hospitalsUT$676Colorado: median $408 across 64 hospitalsCO$408Nebraska: median $597 across 72 hospitalsNE$597Missouri: median $491 across 74 hospitalsMO$491Kentucky: median $457 across 64 hospitalsKY$457West Virginia: median $303 across 43 hospitalsWV$303Virginia: median $577 across 70 hospitalsVA$577Maryland: median $351 across 39 hospitalsMD$351Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $237 across 53 hospitalsAZ$237New Mexico: median $406 across 29 hospitalsNM$406Kansas: median $379 across 83 hospitalsKS$379Arkansas: median $175 across 28 hospitalsAR$175Tennessee: median $220 across 73 hospitalsTN$220North Carolina: median $491 across 95 hospitalsNC$491South Carolina: median $642 across 52 hospitalsSC$642Oklahoma: median $336 across 68 hospitalsOK$336Louisiana: median $244 across 55 hospitalsLA$244Mississippi: median $168 across 48 hospitalsMS$168Alabama: median $284 across 41 hospitalsAL$284Georgia: median $380 across 108 hospitalsGA$380Hawaii: median $402 across 18 hospitalsHI$402Texas: median $539 across 233 hospitalsTX$539Florida: median $975 across 170 hospitalsFL$975
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $439. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL170$975+122%$504 – $3,254
Alaska AK17$749+71%$377 – $1,163
Vermont VT12$682+55%$463 – $1,203
California CA212$678+54%$321 – $1,278
Utah UT36$676+54%$665 – $676
South Dakota SD24$664+51%$573 – $817
South Carolina SC52$642+46%$282 – $752
Massachusetts MA50$637+45%$377 – $769
Nevada NV20$634+44%$148 – $921
Nebraska NE72$597+36%$432 – $710
Virginia VA70$577+32%$310 – $1,057
Illinois IL124$560+28%$278 – $986
Texas TX233$539+23%$288 – $1,209
North Carolina NC95$491+12%$344 – $741
Missouri MO74$491+12%$240 – $680
Pennsylvania PA114$481+10%$154 – $881
Ohio OH143$477+9%$311 – $673
Wyoming WY13$460+5%$130 – $780
Kentucky KY64$457+4%$300 – $738
Washington WA70$456+4%$260 – $619
New Hampshire NH22$443+1%$355 – $942
Idaho ID21$441+1%$296 – $474
Colorado CO64$408−7%$301 – $850
Oregon OR45$408−7%$128 – $518
New Mexico NM29$406−7%$260 – $733
Hawaii HI18$402−8%$317 – $484
Connecticut CT22$386−12%$244 – $694
Georgia GA108$380−13%$155 – $689
Kansas KS83$379−14%$269 – $568
Montana MT18$372−15%$317 – $529
Iowa IA74$362−18%$247 – $545
Maryland MD39$351−20%$235 – $442
Wisconsin WI104$344−22%$155 – $565
Oklahoma OK68$336−23%$210 – $515
Indiana IN89$315−28%$212 – $526
Michigan MI85$308−30%$189 – $549
Minnesota MN82$306−30%$145 – $467
West Virginia WV43$303−31%$224 – $454
Rhode Island RI10$285−35%$149 – $333
Alabama AL41$284−35%$167 – $579
North Dakota ND27$283−36%$194 – $446
New York NY111$275−37%$131 – $653
Maine ME24$257−42%$124 – $677
Louisiana LA55$244−44%$122 – $365
Arizona AZ53$237−46%$151 – $689
Tennessee TN73$220−50%$126 – $453
New Jersey NJ58$186−58%$125 – $385
Arkansas AR28$175−60%$102 – $434
Mississippi MS48$168−62%$101 – $279
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 $439.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,311$458$209 – $822
Children’s61$500$292 – $938
Critical access831$401$216 – $638
Ownership
For-profit471$631$248 – $2,064
Government568$378$169 – $618
Non-profit2,164$439$212 – $712
System affiliation
Part of a system2,644$456$221 – $772
Independent569$369$175 – $632

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$734
Median cash price$439
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

2,203 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $467 and the average of the middle 60% is $470; most fall between $237 and $743.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,203 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
$152$275$467$680$1,057

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($152 vs $1,057).

Of the 2,448 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,203 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 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,213 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 3,566 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,213
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,566

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 6 or More 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 the neck spine, six or more views (CPT 72052) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72052-x-ray-of-the-neck-spine-six-or-more-views