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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the lower back, 4 or more views

CPT 72110the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the lumbar and sacral spine (lower back and tailbone area) with at least four views taken.

Hospitals typically charge $399 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,353 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $410. Most fall between $191 and $684 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,353
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 3,353 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
$127$226$399$614$1,066

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($127 vs $1,066).

How the prices are spread

$98 – $130: 192 hospitals$98$130 – $173: 236 hospitals$173 – $231: 268 hospitals$173$231 – $307: 352 hospitals$307 – $409: 500 hospitals$307$409 – $544: 561 hospitals$544 – $723: 473 hospitals$544$723 – $962: 220 hospitals$962 – $1,280: 147 hospitals$962$1,280 – $1,703: 72 hospitals$1,280median $399price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,021 of 3,353 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$98$130192
$130$173236
$173$231268
$231$307352
$307$409500
$409$544561
$544$723473
$723$962220
$962$1,280147
$1,280$1,70372

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$399
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.7×

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 $399.

Alaska: median $626 across 17 hospitalsAK$626Maine: median $268 across 25 hospitalsME$268Vermont: median $843 across 12 hospitalsVT$843New Hampshire: median $378 across 22 hospitalsNH$378Washington: median $404 across 70 hospitalsWA$404Idaho: median $429 across 22 hospitalsID$429Montana: median $330 across 19 hospitalsMT$330North Dakota: median $233 across 34 hospitalsND$233Minnesota: median $274 across 100 hospitalsMN$274Illinois: median $526 across 125 hospitalsIL$526Wisconsin: median $358 across 109 hospitalsWI$358Michigan: median $286 across 87 hospitalsMI$286New York: median $269 across 110 hospitalsNY$269Massachusetts: median $544 across 52 hospitalsMA$544Oregon: median $362 across 46 hospitalsOR$362Nevada: median $538 across 21 hospitalsNV$538Wyoming: median $470 across 14 hospitalsWY$470South Dakota: median $613 across 39 hospitalsSD$613Iowa: median $352 across 87 hospitalsIA$352Indiana: median $316 across 92 hospitalsIN$316Ohio: median $421 across 143 hospitalsOH$421Pennsylvania: median $339 across 116 hospitalsPA$339New Jersey: median $148 across 58 hospitalsNJ$148Connecticut: median $386 across 22 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: median $302 across 10 hospitalsRI$302California: median $588 across 219 hospitalsCA$588Utah: median $463 across 42 hospitalsUT$463Colorado: median $378 across 66 hospitalsCO$378Nebraska: median $491 across 82 hospitalsNE$491Missouri: median $371 across 75 hospitalsMO$371Kentucky: median $446 across 67 hospitalsKY$446West Virginia: median $284 across 43 hospitalsWV$284Virginia: median $528 across 71 hospitalsVA$528Maryland: median $287 across 40 hospitalsMD$287Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $209 across 53 hospitalsAZ$209New Mexico: median $390 across 30 hospitalsNM$390Kansas: median $365 across 88 hospitalsKS$365Arkansas: median $142 across 36 hospitalsAR$142Tennessee: median $228 across 78 hospitalsTN$228North Carolina: median $430 across 95 hospitalsNC$430South Carolina: median $536 across 53 hospitalsSC$536Oklahoma: median $314 across 70 hospitalsOK$314Louisiana: median $237 across 55 hospitalsLA$237Mississippi: median $175 across 50 hospitalsMS$175Alabama: median $245 across 42 hospitalsAL$245Georgia: median $445 across 109 hospitalsGA$445Hawaii: median $442 across 19 hospitalsHI$442Texas: median $611 across 239 hospitalsTX$611Florida: median $1,100 across 173 hospitalsFL$1,100
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $399. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$1,100+176%$463 – $3,898
Vermont VT12$843+111%$570 – $1,091
Alaska AK17$626+57%$348 – $807
South Dakota SD39$613+54%$419 – $823
Texas TX239$611+53%$300 – $1,152
California CA219$588+47%$292 – $1,128
Massachusetts MA52$544+36%$350 – $673
Nevada NV21$538+35%$228 – $889
South Carolina SC53$536+34%$216 – $687
Virginia VA71$528+32%$293 – $1,136
Illinois IL125$526+32%$255 – $909
Nebraska NE82$491+23%$309 – $608
Wyoming WY14$470+18%$111 – $635
Utah UT42$463+16%$434 – $609
Kentucky KY67$446+12%$264 – $692
Georgia GA109$445+11%$185 – $691
Hawaii HI19$442+11%$335 – $493
North Carolina NC95$430+8%$293 – $703
Idaho ID22$429+8%$290 – $463
Ohio OH143$421+5%$287 – $548
Washington WA70$404+1%$230 – $547
New Mexico NM30$390−2%$220 – $512
Connecticut CT22$386−3%$244 – $567
Colorado CO66$378−5%$301 – $939
New Hampshire NH22$378−5%$287 – $596
Missouri MO75$371−7%$194 – $553
Kansas KS88$365−8%$272 – $541
Oregon OR46$362−9%$122 – $509
Wisconsin WI109$358−10%$138 – $577
Iowa IA87$352−12%$238 – $485
Pennsylvania PA116$339−15%$138 – $724
Montana MT19$330−17%$242 – $409
Indiana IN92$316−21%$203 – $480
Oklahoma OK70$314−21%$227 – $514
Rhode Island RI10$302−24%$149 – $349
Maryland MD40$287−28%$192 – $369
Michigan MI87$286−28%$164 – $542
West Virginia WV43$284−29%$218 – $403
Minnesota MN100$274−31%$106 – $451
New York NY110$269−33%$126 – $692
Maine ME25$268−33%$133 – $522
Alabama AL42$245−39%$123 – $451
Louisiana LA55$237−41%$111 – $315
North Dakota ND34$233−42%$172 – $338
Tennessee TN78$228−43%$125 – $493
Arizona AZ53$209−48%$131 – $657
Mississippi MS50$175−56%$112 – $270
New Jersey NJ58$148−63%$125 – $385
Arkansas AR36$142−64%$120 – $398
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 $399.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,360$420$178 – $766
Children’s66$460$294 – $734
Critical access917$364$202 – $570
Ownership
For-profit486$573$254 – $2,143
Government611$357$175 – $553
Non-profit2,246$384$187 – $653
System affiliation
Part of a system2,752$416$201 – $705
Independent601$350$163 – $573

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$643
Median cash price$399
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

2,290 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $432 and the average of the middle 60% is $434; most fall between $214 and $682.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,290 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
$138$254$432$625$931

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($138 vs $931).

Of the 2,553 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,290 gave a usable cash price; 151 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 112 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,353 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,728 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,353
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here248
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 — excluded126
Hospitals that filed this code3,728

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 Lumbosacral Minimum 4 Views.

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 lower back, 4 or more views (CPT 72110) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72110-x-ray-of-the-lower-back-4-or-more-views