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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of the pelvis with and without contrast

CPT 72197the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvis with images taken both before and after contrast dye is injected.

Hospitals typically charge $2,594 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,222 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,611. Most fall between $1,242 and $4,310 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,222
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 3,222 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
$781$1,452$2,594$3,862$6,391

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($781 vs $6,391).

How the prices are spread

$513 – $681: 106 hospitals$513$681 – $903: 130 hospitals$903 – $1,197: 213 hospitals$903$1,197 – $1,588: 310 hospitals$1,588 – $2,106: 377 hospitals$1,588$2,106 – $2,793: 468 hospitals$2,793 – $3,704: 564 hospitals$2,793$3,704 – $4,913: 390 hospitals$4,913 – $6,516: 191 hospitals$4,913$6,516 – $8,642: 151 hospitals$6,516median $2,594price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,900 of 3,222 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$513$681106
$681$903130
$903$1,197213
$1,197$1,588310
$1,588$2,106377
$2,106$2,793468
$2,793$3,704564
$3,704$4,913390
$4,913$6,516191
$6,516$8,642151

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$2,594
Cash as a multiple of Medicare7.3×

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 $2,594.

Alaska: median $3,889 across 14 hospitalsAK$3,889Maine: median $2,143 across 24 hospitalsME$2,143Vermont: median $4,105 across 11 hospitalsVT$4,105New Hampshire: median $3,166 across 22 hospitalsNH$3,166Washington: median $2,827 across 69 hospitalsWA$2,827Idaho: median $2,263 across 22 hospitalsID$2,263Montana: median $3,043 across 16 hospitalsMT$3,043North Dakota: median $3,222 across 32 hospitalsND$3,222Minnesota: median $2,383 across 99 hospitalsMN$2,383Illinois: median $3,561 across 136 hospitalsIL$3,561Wisconsin: median $2,744 across 106 hospitalsWI$2,744Michigan: median $2,488 across 82 hospitalsMI$2,488New York: median $1,535 across 111 hospitalsNY$1,535Massachusetts: median $2,945 across 49 hospitalsMA$2,945Oregon: median $2,672 across 46 hospitalsOR$2,672Nevada: median $2,116 across 18 hospitalsNV$2,116Wyoming: median $2,403 across 12 hospitalsWY$2,403South Dakota: median $4,310 across 26 hospitalsSD$4,310Iowa: median $3,039 across 82 hospitalsIA$3,039Indiana: median $1,323 across 95 hospitalsIN$1,323Ohio: median $2,015 across 127 hospitalsOH$2,015Pennsylvania: median $2,594 across 115 hospitalsPA$2,594New Jersey: median $861 across 57 hospitalsNJ$861Connecticut: median $2,472 across 22 hospitalsCT$2,472Rhode Island: median $2,127 across 10 hospitalsRI$2,127California: median $3,926 across 215 hospitalsCA$3,926Utah: median $2,909 across 43 hospitalsUT$2,909Colorado: median $2,906 across 64 hospitalsCO$2,906Nebraska: median $3,779 across 80 hospitalsNE$3,779Missouri: median $2,278 across 75 hospitalsMO$2,278Kentucky: median $2,235 across 65 hospitalsKY$2,235West Virginia: median $1,974 across 40 hospitalsWV$1,974Virginia: median $3,166 across 71 hospitalsVA$3,166Maryland: median $1,363 across 37 hospitalsMD$1,363Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,032 across 49 hospitalsAZ$2,032New Mexico: median $2,863 across 29 hospitalsNM$2,863Kansas: median $1,680 across 81 hospitalsKS$1,680Arkansas: median $906 across 33 hospitalsAR$906Tennessee: median $1,135 across 78 hospitalsTN$1,135North Carolina: median $2,734 across 87 hospitalsNC$2,734South Carolina: median $2,711 across 52 hospitalsSC$2,711Oklahoma: median $1,499 across 61 hospitalsOK$1,499Louisiana: median $1,200 across 53 hospitalsLA$1,200Mississippi: median $1,660 across 48 hospitalsMS$1,660Alabama: median $1,954 across 38 hospitalsAL$1,954Georgia: median $2,047 across 102 hospitalsGA$2,047Hawaii: median $2,016 across 11 hospitalsHI$2,016Texas: median $3,383 across 232 hospitalsTX$3,383Florida: median $3,604 across 169 hospitalsFL$3,604
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,594. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD26$4,310+66%$4,042 – $5,310
Vermont VT11$4,105+58%$2,457 – $6,069
California CA215$3,926+51%$1,967 – $7,278
Alaska AK14$3,889+50%$2,576 – $5,665
Nebraska NE80$3,779+46%$2,445 – $4,348
Florida FL169$3,604+39%$1,682 – $10,371
Illinois IL136$3,561+37%$1,928 – $5,313
Texas TX232$3,383+30%$1,509 – $5,859
North Dakota ND32$3,222+24%$2,523 – $3,784
New Hampshire NH22$3,166+22%$2,237 – $7,149
Virginia VA71$3,166+22%$1,736 – $4,578
Montana MT16$3,043+17%$2,183 – $3,576
Iowa IA82$3,039+17%$2,391 – $4,113
Massachusetts MA49$2,945+14%$1,668 – $4,694
Utah UT43$2,909+12%$2,648 – $3,360
Colorado CO64$2,906+12%$1,458 – $3,386
New Mexico NM29$2,863+10%$1,350 – $4,691
Washington WA69$2,827+9%$1,543 – $3,835
Wisconsin WI106$2,744+6%$1,236 – $3,392
North Carolina NC87$2,734+5%$1,991 – $4,127
South Carolina SC52$2,711+5%$1,825 – $4,288
Oregon OR46$2,672+3%$1,949 – $3,703
Pennsylvania PA115$2,5940%$570 – $5,999
Michigan MI82$2,488−4%$1,435 – $3,944
Connecticut CT22$2,472−5%$1,675 – $2,819
Wyoming WY12$2,403−7%$1,193 – $4,130
Minnesota MN99$2,383−8%$1,277 – $3,389
Missouri MO75$2,278−12%$1,327 – $3,313
Idaho ID22$2,263−13%$1,962 – $2,726
Kentucky KY65$2,235−14%$1,254 – $3,893
Maine ME24$2,143−17%$969 – $3,347
Rhode Island RI10$2,127−18%$902 – $3,125
Nevada NV18$2,116−18%$1,605 – $4,637
Georgia GA102$2,047−21%$1,419 – $3,830
Arizona AZ49$2,032−22%$590 – $8,511
Hawaii HI11$2,016−22%$1,372 – $2,721
Ohio OH127$2,015−22%$1,524 – $3,091
West Virginia WV40$1,974−24%$1,670 – $3,479
Alabama AL38$1,954−25%$1,140 – $3,780
Kansas KS81$1,680−35%$779 – $3,106
Mississippi MS48$1,660−36%$909 – $2,089
New York NY111$1,535−41%$528 – $4,038
Oklahoma OK61$1,499−42%$1,007 – $2,784
Maryland MD37$1,363−47%$838 – $1,883
Indiana IN95$1,323−49%$812 – $2,839
Louisiana LA53$1,200−54%$790 – $2,289
Tennessee TN78$1,135−56%$669 – $2,236
Arkansas AR33$906−65%$584 – $2,200
New Jersey NJ57$861−67%$421 – $2,090
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 $2,594.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,320$2,518$1,150 – $4,622
Children’s63$3,389$2,786 – $5,412
Critical access829$2,675$1,460 – $4,031
Ownership
For-profit471$3,435$1,444 – $9,759
Government564$2,462$1,243 – $3,811
Non-profit2,177$2,530$1,225 – $4,063
System affiliation
Part of a system2,651$2,649$1,263 – $4,420
Independent571$2,352$1,105 – $3,788

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,324
Median cash price$2,594
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

2,197 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,648 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,679; most fall between $1,328 and $4,311.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,197 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
$838$1,540$2,648$3,852$5,998

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($838 vs $5,998).

Of the 2,432 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,197 gave a usable cash price; 129 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,222 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,571 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,222
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here226
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded118
Hospitals that filed this code3,571

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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Pelvis 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, “MRI of the pelvis with and without contrast (CPT 72197) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72197-mri-of-the-pelvis-with-and-without-contrast