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Procedure price report · Other CT scan

CT scan of the neck spine without contrast

CPT 72125the billing code this page is about

A computed tomography scan of the cervical spine (neck vertebrae) performed without injected contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $1,329 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,369 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,391. Most fall between $597 and $2,451 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,369
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 3,369 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
$381$737$1,329$2,171$3,502

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($381 vs $3,502).

How the prices are spread

$192 – $271: 58 hospitals$192$271 – $382: 114 hospitals$382 – $539: 237 hospitals$382$539 – $759: 295 hospitals$759 – $1,070: 421 hospitals$759$1,070 – $1,508: 626 hospitals$1,508 – $2,126: 582 hospitals$1,508$2,126 – $2,996: 379 hospitals$2,996 – $4,222: 225 hospitals$2,996$4,222 – $5,950: 98 hospitals$4,222median $1,329price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,035 of 3,369 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$192$27158
$271$382114
$382$539237
$539$759295
$759$1,070421
$1,070$1,508626
$1,508$2,126582
$2,126$2,996379
$2,996$4,222225
$4,222$5,95098

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$1,329
Cash as a multiple of Medicare12.4×

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 $1,329.

Alaska: median $1,906 across 17 hospitalsAK$1,906Maine: median $747 across 25 hospitalsME$747Vermont: median $2,136 across 12 hospitalsVT$2,136New Hampshire: median $1,308 across 22 hospitalsNH$1,308Washington: median $1,298 across 70 hospitalsWA$1,298Idaho: median $863 across 22 hospitalsID$863Montana: median $1,278 across 19 hospitalsMT$1,278North Dakota: median $1,318 across 32 hospitalsND$1,318Minnesota: median $1,267 across 101 hospitalsMN$1,267Illinois: median $2,220 across 136 hospitalsIL$2,220Wisconsin: median $1,232 across 109 hospitalsWI$1,232Michigan: median $1,126 across 86 hospitalsMI$1,126New York: median $533 across 111 hospitalsNY$533Massachusetts: median $1,412 across 52 hospitalsMA$1,412Oregon: median $1,148 across 46 hospitalsOR$1,148Nevada: median $1,400 across 21 hospitalsNV$1,400Wyoming: median $1,730 across 14 hospitalsWY$1,730South Dakota: median $2,702 across 43 hospitalsSD$2,702Iowa: median $1,541 across 88 hospitalsIA$1,541Indiana: median $712 across 94 hospitalsIN$712Ohio: median $1,073 across 142 hospitalsOH$1,073Pennsylvania: median $896 across 114 hospitalsPA$896New Jersey: median $415 across 58 hospitalsNJ$415Connecticut: median $1,045 across 21 hospitalsCT$1,045Rhode Island: median $970 across 10 hospitalsRI$970California: median $2,785 across 215 hospitalsCA$2,785Utah: median $1,644 across 43 hospitalsUT$1,644Colorado: median $1,534 across 66 hospitalsCO$1,534Nebraska: median $2,343 across 84 hospitalsNE$2,343Missouri: median $1,010 across 76 hospitalsMO$1,010Kentucky: median $1,437 across 67 hospitalsKY$1,437West Virginia: median $868 across 42 hospitalsWV$868Virginia: median $1,254 across 71 hospitalsVA$1,254Maryland: median $182 across 38 hospitalsMD$182Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,116 across 53 hospitalsAZ$1,116New Mexico: median $1,613 across 29 hospitalsNM$1,613Kansas: median $1,026 across 88 hospitalsKS$1,026Arkansas: median $604 across 38 hospitalsAR$604Tennessee: median $784 across 78 hospitalsTN$784North Carolina: median $1,487 across 95 hospitalsNC$1,487South Carolina: median $1,722 across 53 hospitalsSC$1,722Oklahoma: median $1,021 across 71 hospitalsOK$1,021Louisiana: median $762 across 56 hospitalsLA$762Mississippi: median $829 across 49 hospitalsMS$829Alabama: median $1,113 across 42 hospitalsAL$1,113Georgia: median $1,150 across 109 hospitalsGA$1,150Hawaii: median $1,327 across 17 hospitalsHI$1,327Texas: median $2,060 across 245 hospitalsTX$2,060Florida: median $3,004 across 173 hospitalsFL$3,004
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,329. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$3,004+126%$1,142 – $10,994
California CA215$2,785+110%$1,255 – $4,652
South Dakota SD43$2,702+103%$2,022 – $3,508
Nebraska NE84$2,343+76%$1,309 – $2,798
Illinois IL136$2,220+67%$907 – $3,168
Vermont VT12$2,136+61%$1,204 – $2,418
Texas TX245$2,060+55%$959 – $4,024
Alaska AK17$1,906+43%$1,298 – $3,147
Wyoming WY14$1,730+30%$649 – $2,377
South Carolina SC53$1,722+30%$1,126 – $2,330
Utah UT43$1,644+24%$1,426 – $2,045
New Mexico NM29$1,613+21%$959 – $2,758
Iowa IA88$1,541+16%$1,151 – $1,955
Colorado CO66$1,534+15%$903 – $2,259
North Carolina NC95$1,487+12%$1,039 – $2,134
Kentucky KY67$1,437+8%$804 – $2,537
Massachusetts MA52$1,412+6%$693 – $2,012
Nevada NV21$1,400+5%$573 – $2,204
Hawaii HI17$1,3270%$857 – $1,530
North Dakota ND32$1,318−1%$1,053 – $1,472
New Hampshire NH22$1,308−2%$910 – $2,720
Washington WA70$1,298−2%$652 – $1,857
Montana MT19$1,278−4%$978 – $1,988
Minnesota MN101$1,267−5%$521 – $1,688
Virginia VA71$1,254−6%$826 – $2,520
Wisconsin WI109$1,232−7%$453 – $1,671
Georgia GA109$1,150−13%$593 – $1,935
Oregon OR46$1,148−14%$771 – $1,820
Michigan MI86$1,126−15%$432 – $1,858
Arizona AZ53$1,116−16%$439 – $7,777
Alabama AL42$1,113−16%$625 – $2,387
Ohio OH142$1,073−19%$641 – $1,519
Connecticut CT21$1,045−21%$467 – $1,339
Kansas KS88$1,026−23%$666 – $1,812
Oklahoma OK71$1,021−23%$665 – $1,740
Missouri MO76$1,010−24%$802 – $2,040
Rhode Island RI10$970−27%$285 – $1,230
Pennsylvania PA114$896−33%$282 – $2,684
West Virginia WV42$868−35%$641 – $1,649
Idaho ID22$863−35%$737 – $1,452
Mississippi MS49$829−38%$631 – $1,214
Tennessee TN78$784−41%$532 – $1,540
Louisiana LA56$762−43%$378 – $1,606
Maine ME25$747−44%$313 – $1,281
Indiana IN94$712−46%$406 – $1,574
Arkansas AR38$604−55%$384 – $1,236
New York NY111$533−60%$158 – $1,907
New Jersey NJ58$415−69%$125 – $762
Maryland MD38$182−86%$127 – $253
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 $1,329.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,365$1,292$542 – $2,640
Children’s64$2,512$1,152 – $3,643
Critical access930$1,375$756 – $2,225
Ownership
For-profit488$2,095$801 – $7,734
Government611$1,274$650 – $2,126
Non-profit2,260$1,291$563 – $2,290
System affiliation
Part of a system2,769$1,359$595 – $2,537
Independent600$1,210$606 – $2,166

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,275
Median cash price$1,329
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

2,292 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,404 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,442; most fall between $689 and $2,412.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,292 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
$432$800$1,404$2,182$3,289

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($432 vs $3,289).

Of the 2,540 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,292 gave a usable cash price; 137 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,369 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 3,727 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,369
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here235
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 — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,727

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 CT scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CT Cervical Spine W/O Contrast Material|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, “CT scan of the neck spine without contrast (CPT 72125) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72125-ct-scan-of-the-neck-spine-without-contrast