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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Scoliosis spine X-ray, 6 or more views

CPT 72084the billing code this page is about

X-ray of the whole thoracic and lumbar spine, including neck, skull and sacral areas if imaged, with at least six views taken.

Hospitals typically charge $475 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,986 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $495. Most fall between $220 and $860 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,986
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 1,986 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
$142$263$475$794$1,287

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($142 vs $1,287).

How the prices are spread

$110 – $147: 122 hospitals$110$147 – $197: 103 hospitals$197 – $263: 179 hospitals$197$263 – $351: 240 hospitals$351 – $469: 245 hospitals$351$469 – $627: 288 hospitals$627 – $837: 277 hospitals$627$837 – $1,118: 167 hospitals$1,118 – $1,493: 116 hospitals$1,118$1,493 – $1,994: 51 hospitals$1,493median $475price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,788 of 1,986 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$110$147122
$147$197103
$197$263179
$263$351240
$351$469245
$469$627288
$627$837277
$837$1,118167
$1,118$1,493116
$1,493$1,99451

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$475
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.4×

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 $475.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $415 across 13 hospitalsME$415Vermont: 4 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 $529 across 41 hospitalsWA$529Idaho: median $441 across 14 hospitalsID$441Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $416 across 12 hospitalsND$416Minnesota: median $317 across 37 hospitalsMN$317Illinois: median $637 across 72 hospitalsIL$637Wisconsin: median $410 across 80 hospitalsWI$410Michigan: median $294 across 51 hospitalsMI$294New York: median $275 across 69 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $670 across 34 hospitalsMA$670Oregon: median $434 across 31 hospitalsOR$434Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $677 across 10 hospitalsSD$677Iowa: median $428 across 40 hospitalsIA$428Indiana: median $434 across 52 hospitalsIN$434Ohio: median $475 across 93 hospitalsOH$475Pennsylvania: median $691 across 90 hospitalsPA$691New Jersey: median $147 across 43 hospitalsNJ$147Connecticut: median $456 across 11 hospitalsCT$456Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $989 across 146 hospitalsCA$989Utah: median $802 across 32 hospitalsUT$802Colorado: median $429 across 46 hospitalsCO$429Nebraska: median $265 across 29 hospitalsNE$265Missouri: median $522 across 52 hospitalsMO$522Kentucky: median $565 across 47 hospitalsKY$565West Virginia: median $263 across 32 hospitalsWV$263Virginia: median $450 across 45 hospitalsVA$450Maryland: median $597 across 26 hospitalsMD$597Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $380 across 40 hospitalsAZ$380New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $499 across 25 hospitalsKS$499Arkansas: median $563 across 17 hospitalsAR$563Tennessee: median $178 across 41 hospitalsTN$178North Carolina: median $362 across 53 hospitalsNC$362South Carolina: median $418 across 35 hospitalsSC$418Oklahoma: median $372 across 35 hospitalsOK$372Louisiana: median $200 across 22 hospitalsLA$200Mississippi: median $192 across 32 hospitalsMS$192Alabama: median $257 across 24 hospitalsAL$257Georgia: median $382 across 61 hospitalsGA$382Hawaii: median $502 across 14 hospitalsHI$502Texas: median $591 across 170 hospitalsTX$591Florida: median $807 across 116 hospitalsFL$807
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $475. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA146$989+108%$450 – $1,222
Florida FL116$807+70%$333 – $2,437
Utah UT32$802+69%$743 – $802
Pennsylvania PA90$691+45%$210 – $1,051
South Dakota SD10$677+42%$207 – $769
Massachusetts MA34$670+41%$413 – $1,037
Illinois IL72$637+34%$253 – $1,530
Maryland MD26$597+26%$477 – $717
Texas TX170$591+24%$383 – $1,487
Kentucky KY47$565+19%$165 – $1,255
Arkansas AR17$563+18%$149 – $651
Washington WA41$529+11%$363 – $1,141
Missouri MO52$522+10%$337 – $845
Hawaii HI14$502+6%$491 – $644
Kansas KS25$499+5%$180 – $785
Ohio OH93$4750%$296 – $716
Connecticut CT11$456−4%$315 – $739
Virginia VA45$450−5%$291 – $552
Idaho ID14$441−7%$306 – $756
Indiana IN52$434−9%$213 – $559
Oregon OR31$434−9%$200 – $542
Colorado CO46$429−10%$264 – $743
Iowa IA40$428−10%$163 – $598
South Carolina SC35$418−12%$393 – $970
North Dakota ND12$416−12%$311 – $491
Maine ME13$415−13%$196 – $649
Wisconsin WI80$410−14%$152 – $757
Georgia GA61$382−20%$268 – $738
Arizona AZ40$380−20%$208 – $1,827
Oklahoma OK35$372−22%$266 – $693
North Carolina NC53$362−24%$295 – $692
Minnesota MN37$317−33%$93 – $550
Michigan MI51$294−38%$144 – $491
New York NY69$275−42%$126 – $739
Nebraska NE29$265−44%$179 – $582
West Virginia WV32$263−45%$165 – $403
Alabama AL24$257−46%$141 – $886
Louisiana LA22$200−58%$122 – $265
Mississippi MS32$192−60%$153 – $291
Tennessee TN41$178−63%$85 – $482
New Jersey NJ43$147−69%$123 – $232
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not 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 $475.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,568$477$217 – $912
Children’s57$581$401 – $850
Critical access355$439$203 – $749
Ownership
For-profit293$686$274 – $1,827
Government233$384$199 – $664
Non-profit1,454$453$216 – $827
System affiliation
Part of a system1,759$478$224 – $870
Independent227$384$178 – $756

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$784
Median cash price$475
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

1,475 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $487 and the average of the middle 60% is $514; most fall between $255 and $850.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,475 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
$165$285$487$802$1,171

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($165 vs $1,171).

Of the 1,609 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,475 gave a usable cash price; 74 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,986 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (50%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,187 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,986
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here131
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 — excluded69
Hospitals that filed this code2,187

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 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 Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radex Entir Thrc Lmbr Crv Sac Spi W/Skull 6/> 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, 6 or more views (CPT 72084) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72084-scoliosis-spine-x-ray-6-or-more-views