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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Scoliosis spine X-ray, 2 or 3 views

CPT 72082the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the whole thoracic and lumbar spine, including neck, skull and sacral areas if imaged, with two or three views taken.

Hospitals typically charge $315 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,045 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $332. Most fall between $167 and $572 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,045
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 3,045 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$191$315$499$804

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($119 vs $804).

How the prices are spread

$90 – $117: 146 hospitals$90$117 – $152: 234 hospitals$152 – $198: 299 hospitals$152$198 – $258: 356 hospitals$258 – $336: 413 hospitals$258$336 – $437: 445 hospitals$437 – $569: 394 hospitals$437$569 – $741: 248 hospitals$741 – $964: 141 hospitals$741$964 – $1,255: 72 hospitals$964median $315price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,748 of 3,045 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$90$117146
$117$152234
$152$198299
$198$258356
$258$336413
$336$437445
$437$569394
$569$741248
$741$964141
$964$1,25572

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$315
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $315.

Alaska: median $676 across 16 hospitalsAK$676Maine: median $246 across 23 hospitalsME$246Vermont: median $673 across 11 hospitalsVT$673New Hampshire: median $340 across 19 hospitalsNH$340Washington: median $316 across 65 hospitalsWA$316Idaho: median $338 across 21 hospitalsID$338Montana: median $226 across 16 hospitalsMT$226North Dakota: median $265 across 24 hospitalsND$265Minnesota: median $272 across 85 hospitalsMN$272Illinois: median $413 across 118 hospitalsIL$413Wisconsin: median $298 across 97 hospitalsWI$298Michigan: median $235 across 83 hospitalsMI$235New York: median $217 across 111 hospitalsNY$217Massachusetts: median $459 across 49 hospitalsMA$459Oregon: median $312 across 45 hospitalsOR$312Nevada: median $234 across 18 hospitalsNV$234Wyoming: median $351 across 14 hospitalsWY$351South Dakota: median $474 across 22 hospitalsSD$474Iowa: median $285 across 73 hospitalsIA$285Indiana: median $309 across 92 hospitalsIN$309Ohio: median $287 across 140 hospitalsOH$287Pennsylvania: median $386 across 113 hospitalsPA$386New Jersey: median $138 across 56 hospitalsNJ$138Connecticut: median $366 across 21 hospitalsCT$366Rhode Island: median $286 across 10 hospitalsRI$286California: median $390 across 204 hospitalsCA$390Utah: median $452 across 38 hospitalsUT$452Colorado: median $357 across 59 hospitalsCO$357Nebraska: median $462 across 73 hospitalsNE$462Missouri: median $320 across 76 hospitalsMO$320Kentucky: median $435 across 61 hospitalsKY$435West Virginia: median $228 across 38 hospitalsWV$228Virginia: median $236 across 67 hospitalsVA$236Maryland: median $443 across 31 hospitalsMD$443Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $199 across 50 hospitalsAZ$199New Mexico: median $269 across 27 hospitalsNM$269Kansas: median $269 across 67 hospitalsKS$269Arkansas: median $128 across 33 hospitalsAR$128Tennessee: median $181 across 68 hospitalsTN$181North Carolina: median $283 across 85 hospitalsNC$283South Carolina: median $379 across 50 hospitalsSC$379Oklahoma: median $266 across 65 hospitalsOK$266Louisiana: median $155 across 45 hospitalsLA$155Mississippi: median $138 across 43 hospitalsMS$138Alabama: median $201 across 35 hospitalsAL$201Georgia: median $296 across 91 hospitalsGA$296Hawaii: median $361 across 18 hospitalsHI$361Texas: median $465 across 220 hospitalsTX$465Florida: median $481 across 153 hospitalsFL$481
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $315. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK16$676+115%$197 – $1,111
Vermont VT11$673+114%$442 – $1,273
Florida FL153$481+53%$228 – $2,111
South Dakota SD22$474+51%$442 – $634
Texas TX220$465+48%$242 – $928
Nebraska NE73$462+47%$302 – $592
Massachusetts MA49$459+46%$239 – $734
Utah UT38$452+44%$378 – $538
Maryland MD31$443+41%$319 – $532
Kentucky KY61$435+38%$205 – $694
Illinois IL118$413+31%$172 – $735
California CA204$390+24%$264 – $772
Pennsylvania PA113$386+22%$153 – $772
South Carolina SC50$379+20%$203 – $429
Connecticut CT21$366+16%$239 – $783
Hawaii HI18$361+14%$317 – $416
Colorado CO59$357+13%$222 – $516
Wyoming WY14$351+11%$185 – $572
New Hampshire NH19$340+8%$263 – $707
Idaho ID21$338+7%$228 – $441
Missouri MO76$320+2%$183 – $448
Washington WA65$3160%$206 – $532
Oregon OR45$312−1%$140 – $485
Indiana IN92$309−2%$186 – $405
Wisconsin WI97$298−5%$120 – $472
Georgia GA91$296−6%$138 – $422
Ohio OH140$287−9%$202 – $477
Rhode Island RI10$286−9%$166 – $377
Iowa IA73$285−10%$213 – $370
North Carolina NC85$283−10%$194 – $486
Minnesota MN85$272−14%$143 – $441
Kansas KS67$269−15%$138 – $466
New Mexico NM27$269−15%$195 – $510
Oklahoma OK65$266−16%$166 – $468
North Dakota ND24$265−16%$185 – $306
Maine ME23$246−22%$138 – $423
Virginia VA67$236−25%$170 – $624
Michigan MI83$235−25%$158 – $393
Nevada NV18$234−26%$96 – $638
West Virginia WV38$228−28%$139 – $404
Montana MT16$226−28%$186 – $372
New York NY111$217−31%$131 – $516
Alabama AL35$201−36%$123 – $305
Arizona AZ50$199−37%$151 – $690
Tennessee TN68$181−43%$69 – $515
Louisiana LA45$155−51%$82 – $312
Mississippi MS43$138−56%$88 – $202
New Jersey NJ56$138−56%$118 – $232
Arkansas AR33$128−59%$55 – $337
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 $315.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,213$313$163 – $603
Children’s67$368$268 – $669
Critical access755$314$175 – $502
Ownership
For-profit432$449$196 – $1,172
Government502$298$156 – $483
Non-profit2,101$305$166 – $529
System affiliation
Part of a system2,544$328$173 – $578
Independent501$286$145 – $526

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$530
Median cash price$315
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

2,101 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $337 and the average of the middle 60% is $342; most fall between $183 and $544.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,101 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
$124$202$337$488$772

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $772).

Of the 2,329 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,101 gave a usable cash price; 126 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,045 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,373 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,045
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here216
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 — excluded111
Hospitals that filed this code3,373

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 Entir Thrc Lmbr Crv Sac Spi W/Skull 2/3 Vw|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, “Scoliosis spine X-ray, 2 or 3 views (CPT 72082) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72082-scoliosis-spine-x-ray-2-or-3-views