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Procedure price report · Other CT scan

CT scan of the mid-back spine with and without contrast

CPT 72130the billing code this page is about

A computed tomography scan of the thoracic spine done first without contrast dye and then repeated after contrast is given, billed as one combined study.

Hospitals typically charge $1,725 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,771 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,787. Most fall between $798 and $3,206 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,771
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 2,771 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
$498$920$1,725$2,812$4,797

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($498 vs $4,797).

How the prices are spread

$253 – $355: 51 hospitals$253$355 – $497: 87 hospitals$497 – $696: 174 hospitals$497$696 – $975: 279 hospitals$975 – $1,366: 362 hospitals$975$1,366 – $1,914: 467 hospitals$1,914 – $2,682: 449 hospitals$1,914$2,682 – $3,758: 364 hospitals$3,758 – $5,265: 155 hospitals$3,758$5,265 – $7,377: 107 hospitals$5,265median $1,725price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,495 of 2,771 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$253$35551
$355$49787
$497$696174
$696$975279
$975$1,366362
$1,366$1,914467
$1,914$2,682449
$2,682$3,758364
$3,758$5,265155
$5,265$7,377107

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$179
Median cash price$1,725
Cash as a multiple of Medicare9.6×

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 $1,725.

Alaska: median $3,341 across 10 hospitalsAK$3,341Maine: median $1,056 across 20 hospitalsME$1,056Vermont: median $2,303 across 11 hospitalsVT$2,303New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,753 across 56 hospitalsWA$1,753Idaho: median $1,816 across 19 hospitalsID$1,816Montana: median $1,825 across 15 hospitalsMT$1,825North Dakota: median $1,692 across 19 hospitalsND$1,692Minnesota: median $1,081 across 63 hospitalsMN$1,081Illinois: median $2,655 across 123 hospitalsIL$2,655Wisconsin: median $1,649 across 87 hospitalsWI$1,649Michigan: median $1,506 across 70 hospitalsMI$1,506New York: median $866 across 86 hospitalsNY$866Massachusetts: median $1,856 across 38 hospitalsMA$1,856Oregon: median $1,418 across 37 hospitalsOR$1,418Nevada: median $2,602 across 12 hospitalsNV$2,602Wyoming: median $2,381 across 14 hospitalsWY$2,381South Dakota: median $2,676 across 15 hospitalsSD$2,676Iowa: median $1,847 across 50 hospitalsIA$1,847Indiana: median $1,072 across 86 hospitalsIN$1,072Ohio: median $1,344 across 125 hospitalsOH$1,344Pennsylvania: median $1,643 across 105 hospitalsPA$1,643New Jersey: median $573 across 53 hospitalsNJ$573Connecticut: median $1,663 across 13 hospitalsCT$1,663Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,120 across 192 hospitalsCA$3,120Utah: median $2,812 across 32 hospitalsUT$2,812Colorado: median $2,009 across 57 hospitalsCO$2,009Nebraska: median $2,544 across 66 hospitalsNE$2,544Missouri: median $1,738 across 69 hospitalsMO$1,738Kentucky: median $1,377 across 53 hospitalsKY$1,377West Virginia: median $1,384 across 28 hospitalsWV$1,384Virginia: median $1,705 across 57 hospitalsVA$1,705Maryland: median $273 across 36 hospitalsMD$273Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,702 across 51 hospitalsAZ$1,702New Mexico: median $1,595 across 22 hospitalsNM$1,595Kansas: median $1,226 across 60 hospitalsKS$1,226Arkansas: median $844 across 22 hospitalsAR$844Tennessee: median $898 across 74 hospitalsTN$898North Carolina: median $1,891 across 84 hospitalsNC$1,891South Carolina: median $2,209 across 51 hospitalsSC$2,209Oklahoma: median $1,233 across 62 hospitalsOK$1,233Louisiana: median $903 across 50 hospitalsLA$903Mississippi: median $944 across 45 hospitalsMS$944Alabama: median $1,673 across 36 hospitalsAL$1,673Georgia: median $1,431 across 90 hospitalsGA$1,431Hawaii: median $1,447 across 15 hospitalsHI$1,447Texas: median $2,913 across 225 hospitalsTX$2,913Florida: median $3,544 across 148 hospitalsFL$3,544
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,725. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL148$3,544+105%$1,376 – $13,154
Alaska AK10$3,341+94%$920 – $4,674
California CA192$3,120+81%$1,330 – $5,842
Texas TX225$2,913+69%$1,289 – $5,095
Utah UT32$2,812+63%$1,928 – $2,812
South Dakota SD15$2,676+55%$2,620 – $3,302
Illinois IL123$2,655+54%$1,305 – $3,577
Nevada NV12$2,602+51%$370 – $4,359
Nebraska NE66$2,544+47%$1,586 – $3,188
Wyoming WY14$2,381+38%$802 – $3,246
Vermont VT11$2,303+34%$1,199 – $2,781
South Carolina SC51$2,209+28%$1,425 – $2,565
Colorado CO57$2,009+16%$1,252 – $2,941
North Carolina NC84$1,891+10%$1,265 – $2,746
Massachusetts MA38$1,856+8%$873 – $2,665
Iowa IA50$1,847+7%$1,333 – $2,691
Montana MT15$1,825+6%$851 – $2,204
Idaho ID19$1,816+5%$1,071 – $2,812
Washington WA56$1,753+2%$1,129 – $2,423
Missouri MO69$1,738+1%$946 – $2,878
Virginia VA57$1,705−1%$920 – $3,702
Arizona AZ51$1,702−1%$691 – $8,821
North Dakota ND19$1,692−2%$1,464 – $2,262
Alabama AL36$1,673−3%$1,013 – $2,522
Connecticut CT13$1,663−4%$431 – $1,875
Wisconsin WI87$1,649−4%$701 – $2,305
Pennsylvania PA105$1,643−5%$383 – $3,242
New Mexico NM22$1,595−8%$895 – $2,274
Michigan MI70$1,506−13%$866 – $2,794
Hawaii HI15$1,447−16%$1,278 – $1,888
Georgia GA90$1,431−17%$722 – $2,175
Oregon OR37$1,418−18%$829 – $2,212
West Virginia WV28$1,384−20%$847 – $2,400
Kentucky KY53$1,377−20%$804 – $3,443
Ohio OH125$1,344−22%$980 – $1,995
Oklahoma OK62$1,233−29%$715 – $2,020
Kansas KS60$1,226−29%$760 – $2,277
Minnesota MN63$1,081−37%$649 – $1,871
Indiana IN86$1,072−38%$542 – $2,195
Maine ME20$1,056−39%$528 – $2,505
Mississippi MS45$944−45%$522 – $1,535
Louisiana LA50$903−48%$491 – $1,718
Tennessee TN74$898−48%$588 – $1,771
New York NY86$866−50%$211 – $2,816
Arkansas AR22$844−51%$604 – $1,937
New Jersey NJ53$573−67%$210 – $1,136
Maryland MD36$273−84%$199 – $383
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not 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 $1,725.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,096$1,685$759 – $3,336
Children’s52$2,955$1,627 – $5,775
Critical access614$1,744$875 – $2,678
Ownership
For-profit423$2,381$966 – $8,724
Government463$1,590$812 – $2,649
Non-profit1,876$1,688$752 – $2,941
System affiliation
Part of a system2,316$1,783$803 – $3,265
Independent455$1,508$716 – $2,604

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,958
Median cash price$1,725
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

1,915 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,816 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,872; most fall between $863 and $3,156.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,915 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
$583$1,016$1,816$2,846$4,306

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($583 vs $4,306).

Of the 2,120 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,915 gave a usable cash price; 115 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 90 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,771 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,072 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,771
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here200
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 — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code3,072

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 Thoracic Spine W/O & W/Contrast Material.

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 mid-back spine with and without contrast (CPT 72130) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72130-ct-scan-of-the-mid-back-spine-with-and-without-contrast