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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the pelvis, 1 or 2 views

CPT 72170the billing code this page is about

Plain X-ray imaging of the pelvic bones using one or two picture angles.

Hospitals typically charge $235 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,368 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $244. Most fall between $126 and $416 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,368
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 3,368 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
$86$146$235$364$604

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $604).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $86: 169 hospitals$66$86 – $113: 201 hospitals$113 – $147: 311 hospitals$113$147 – $193: 463 hospitals$193 – $252: 506 hospitals$193$252 – $330: 574 hospitals$330 – $432: 352 hospitals$330$432 – $565: 244 hospitals$565 – $740: 126 hospitals$565$740 – $968: 86 hospitals$740median $235price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,032 of 3,368 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$86169
$86$113201
$113$147311
$147$193463
$193$252506
$252$330574
$330$432352
$432$565244
$565$740126
$740$96886

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$235
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $235.

Alaska: median $353 across 17 hospitalsAK$353Maine: median $176 across 25 hospitalsME$176Vermont: median $438 across 12 hospitalsVT$438New Hampshire: median $212 across 21 hospitalsNH$212Washington: median $260 across 70 hospitalsWA$260Idaho: median $273 across 22 hospitalsID$273Montana: median $214 across 19 hospitalsMT$214North Dakota: median $156 across 34 hospitalsND$156Minnesota: median $200 across 101 hospitalsMN$200Illinois: median $315 across 124 hospitalsIL$315Wisconsin: median $232 across 110 hospitalsWI$232Michigan: median $164 across 87 hospitalsMI$164New York: median $202 across 115 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $270 across 53 hospitalsMA$270Oregon: median $247 across 46 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $282 across 21 hospitalsNV$282Wyoming: median $174 across 14 hospitalsWY$174South Dakota: median $346 across 43 hospitalsSD$346Iowa: median $190 across 88 hospitalsIA$190Indiana: median $212 across 91 hospitalsIN$212Ohio: median $248 across 143 hospitalsOH$248Pennsylvania: median $245 across 116 hospitalsPA$245New Jersey: median $135 across 58 hospitalsNJ$135Connecticut: median $306 across 22 hospitalsCT$306Rhode Island: median $261 across 10 hospitalsRI$261California: median $364 across 218 hospitalsCA$364Utah: median $277 across 42 hospitalsUT$277Colorado: median $252 across 66 hospitalsCO$252Nebraska: median $296 across 85 hospitalsNE$296Missouri: median $210 across 77 hospitalsMO$210Kentucky: median $250 across 67 hospitalsKY$250West Virginia: median $207 across 43 hospitalsWV$207Virginia: median $280 across 71 hospitalsVA$280Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $130 across 53 hospitalsAZ$130New Mexico: median $189 across 30 hospitalsNM$189Kansas: median $190 across 90 hospitalsKS$190Arkansas: median $87 across 37 hospitalsAR$87Tennessee: median $142 across 77 hospitalsTN$142North Carolina: median $214 across 95 hospitalsNC$214South Carolina: median $251 across 53 hospitalsSC$251Oklahoma: median $196 across 70 hospitalsOK$196Louisiana: median $135 across 56 hospitalsLA$135Mississippi: median $121 across 50 hospitalsMS$121Alabama: median $163 across 42 hospitalsAL$163Georgia: median $207 across 107 hospitalsGA$207Hawaii: median $251 across 19 hospitalsHI$251Texas: median $334 across 240 hospitalsTX$334Florida: median $620 across 172 hospitalsFL$620
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $235. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$620+164%$275 – $1,977
Vermont VT12$438+86%$318 – $670
California CA218$364+55%$178 – $652
Alaska AK17$353+50%$227 – $538
South Dakota SD43$346+47%$201 – $488
Texas TX240$334+42%$179 – $596
Illinois IL124$315+34%$158 – $541
Connecticut CT22$306+30%$215 – $327
Nebraska NE85$296+26%$168 – $358
Nevada NV21$282+20%$120 – $450
Virginia VA71$280+19%$177 – $604
Utah UT42$277+18%$221 – $363
Idaho ID22$273+16%$146 – $441
Massachusetts MA53$270+15%$184 – $486
Rhode Island RI10$261+11%$149 – $286
Washington WA70$260+11%$162 – $368
Colorado CO66$252+7%$167 – $340
Hawaii HI19$251+7%$185 – $295
South Carolina SC53$251+7%$121 – $273
Kentucky KY67$250+6%$155 – $435
Ohio OH143$248+5%$185 – $357
Oregon OR46$247+5%$111 – $324
Pennsylvania PA116$245+4%$125 – $454
Wisconsin WI110$232−1%$93 – $304
North Carolina NC95$214−9%$170 – $330
Montana MT19$214−9%$170 – $278
Indiana IN91$212−10%$150 – $284
New Hampshire NH21$212−10%$161 – $474
Missouri MO77$210−11%$139 – $334
West Virginia WV43$207−12%$122 – $348
Georgia GA107$207−12%$82 – $388
New York NY115$202−14%$77 – $393
Minnesota MN101$200−15%$128 – $267
Oklahoma OK70$196−17%$116 – $292
Maryland MD40$191−19%$128 – $246
Iowa IA88$190−19%$124 – $272
Kansas KS90$190−19%$140 – $304
New Mexico NM30$189−20%$143 – $369
Maine ME25$176−25%$95 – $298
Wyoming WY14$174−26%$76 – $324
Michigan MI87$164−30%$105 – $254
Alabama AL42$163−31%$99 – $321
North Dakota ND34$156−34%$117 – $223
Tennessee TN77$142−40%$76 – $225
New Jersey NJ58$135−42%$108 – $243
Louisiana LA56$135−43%$78 – $216
Arizona AZ53$130−45%$79 – $322
Mississippi MS50$121−49%$79 – $169
Arkansas AR37$87−63%$65 – $226
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 $235.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,367$247$127 – $457
Children’s67$275$197 – $433
Critical access924$218$123 – $327
Ownership
For-profit492$322$148 – $1,140
Government609$201$117 – $324
Non-profit2,257$233$125 – $393
System affiliation
Part of a system2,761$243$131 – $427
Independent607$201$105 – $342

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$390
Median cash price$235
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

2,319 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $255 and the average of the middle 60% is $259; most fall between $139 and $422.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,319 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
$91$160$255$375$526

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($91 vs $526).

Of the 2,576 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,319 gave a usable cash price; 146 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

3,368 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 3,745 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,368
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here252
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 — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,745

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 Radiologic Examination Pelvis 1/2 Views|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, “X-ray of the pelvis, 1 or 2 views (CPT 72170) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72170-x-ray-of-the-pelvis-1-or-2-views