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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the mid-back spine, four or more views

CPT 72074the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the thoracic spine in the mid-back, using at least four views.

Hospitals typically charge $340 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,266 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $349. Most fall between $154 and $609 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,266
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 2,266 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
$114$191$340$546$858

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($114 vs $858).

How the prices are spread

$88 – $115: 118 hospitals$88$115 – $152: 214 hospitals$152 – $199: 145 hospitals$152$199 – $262: 229 hospitals$262 – $344: 330 hospitals$262$344 – $452: 387 hospitals$452 – $594: 255 hospitals$452$594 – $780: 206 hospitals$780 – $1,025: 110 hospitals$780$1,025 – $1,347: 49 hospitals$1,025median $340price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,043 of 2,266 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$88$115118
$115$152214
$152$199145
$199$262229
$262$344330
$344$452387
$452$594255
$594$780206
$780$1,025110
$1,025$1,34749

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$340
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.2×

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 $340.

Alaska: median $391 across 15 hospitalsAK$391Maine: median $257 across 16 hospitalsME$257Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $354 across 13 hospitalsNH$354Washington: median $379 across 48 hospitalsWA$379Idaho: median $384 across 17 hospitalsID$384Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $212 across 10 hospitalsND$212Minnesota: median $140 across 65 hospitalsMN$140Illinois: median $446 across 81 hospitalsIL$446Wisconsin: median $254 across 87 hospitalsWI$254Michigan: median $216 across 55 hospitalsMI$216New York: median $275 across 83 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $398 across 34 hospitalsMA$398Oregon: median $324 across 40 hospitalsOR$324Nevada: median $211 across 10 hospitalsNV$211Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $594 across 16 hospitalsSD$594Iowa: median $273 across 38 hospitalsIA$273Indiana: median $286 across 71 hospitalsIN$286Ohio: median $381 across 126 hospitalsOH$381Pennsylvania: median $373 across 88 hospitalsPA$373New Jersey: median $142 across 47 hospitalsNJ$142Connecticut: median $375 across 18 hospitalsCT$375Rhode Island: median $261 across 10 hospitalsRI$261California: median $553 across 169 hospitalsCA$553Utah: median $384 across 31 hospitalsUT$384Colorado: median $336 across 46 hospitalsCO$336Nebraska: median $339 across 32 hospitalsNE$339Missouri: median $358 across 55 hospitalsMO$358Kentucky: median $427 across 48 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $211 across 27 hospitalsWV$211Virginia: median $365 across 53 hospitalsVA$365Maryland: median $256 across 31 hospitalsMD$256Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $272 across 44 hospitalsAZ$272New Mexico: median $429 across 15 hospitalsNM$429Kansas: median $290 across 45 hospitalsKS$290Arkansas: median $96 across 26 hospitalsAR$96Tennessee: median $129 across 50 hospitalsTN$129North Carolina: median $341 across 71 hospitalsNC$341South Carolina: median $552 across 43 hospitalsSC$552Oklahoma: median $239 across 48 hospitalsOK$239Louisiana: median $175 across 37 hospitalsLA$175Mississippi: median $132 across 25 hospitalsMS$132Alabama: median $223 across 24 hospitalsAL$223Georgia: median $280 across 68 hospitalsGA$280Hawaii: median $356 across 16 hospitalsHI$356Texas: median $416 across 133 hospitalsTX$416Florida: median $724 across 112 hospitalsFL$724
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $340. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL112$724+113%$349 – $1,926
South Dakota SD16$594+75%$358 – $602
California CA169$553+63%$297 – $858
South Carolina SC43$552+62%$118 – $638
Illinois IL81$446+31%$196 – $755
New Mexico NM15$429+26%$212 – $614
Kentucky KY48$427+26%$191 – $790
Texas TX133$416+22%$209 – $858
Massachusetts MA34$398+17%$200 – $658
Alaska AK15$391+15%$124 – $738
Idaho ID17$384+13%$304 – $441
Utah UT31$384+13%$384 – $384
Ohio OH126$381+12%$251 – $539
Washington WA48$379+12%$226 – $589
Connecticut CT18$375+10%$218 – $497
Pennsylvania PA88$373+10%$165 – $679
Virginia VA53$365+7%$211 – $589
Missouri MO55$358+5%$262 – $525
Hawaii HI16$356+5%$296 – $425
New Hampshire NH13$354+4%$235 – $707
North Carolina NC71$3410%$216 – $487
Nebraska NE32$3390%$249 – $464
Colorado CO46$336−1%$265 – $678
Oregon OR40$324−5%$243 – $496
Kansas KS45$290−15%$178 – $431
Indiana IN71$286−16%$212 – $370
Georgia GA68$280−18%$140 – $761
New York NY83$275−19%$126 – $509
Iowa IA38$273−20%$182 – $422
Arizona AZ44$272−20%$113 – $1,414
Rhode Island RI10$261−23%$149 – $286
Maine ME16$257−24%$142 – $348
Maryland MD31$256−25%$169 – $361
Wisconsin WI87$254−25%$125 – $373
Oklahoma OK48$239−30%$170 – $452
Alabama AL24$223−34%$111 – $795
Michigan MI55$216−36%$144 – $417
North Dakota ND10$212−38%$132 – $368
Nevada NV10$211−38%$86 – $828
West Virginia WV27$211−38%$172 – $307
Louisiana LA37$175−48%$83 – $259
New Jersey NJ47$142−58%$121 – $243
Minnesota MN65$140−59%$102 – $306
Mississippi MS25$132−61%$116 – $231
Tennessee TN50$129−62%$73 – $326
Arkansas AR26$96−72%$91 – $306
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not 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 $340.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,744$342$149 – $647
Children’s47$405$327 – $634
Critical access465$311$160 – $486
Ownership
For-profit284$420$152 – $1,414
Government327$314$146 – $506
Non-profit1,645$338$154 – $589
System affiliation
Part of a system1,957$346$159 – $617
Independent309$300$139 – $549

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$571
Median cash price$340
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,664 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $367 and the average of the middle 60% is $379; most fall between $178 and $617.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,664 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
$119$218$367$569$811

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($119 vs $811).

Of the 1,837 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,664 gave a usable cash price; 94 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,266 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (57%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,513 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,266
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here163
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded84
Hospitals that filed this code2,513

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 Thoracic 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 the mid-back spine, four or more views (CPT 72074) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72074-x-ray-of-the-mid-back-spine-four-or-more-views