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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the sacroiliac joints, 3 or more views

CPT 72202the billing code this page is about

Plain X-ray imaging of the joints where the base of the spine meets the pelvis, using at least three picture angles.

Hospitals typically charge $269 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,178 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $284. Most fall between $144 and $487 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,178
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 3,178 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
$102$166$269$436$728

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($102 vs $728).

How the prices are spread

$72 – $94: 118 hospitals$72$94 – $124: 200 hospitals$124 – $162: 304 hospitals$124$162 – $213: 378 hospitals$213 – $279: 497 hospitals$213$279 – $365: 447 hospitals$365 – $479: 423 hospitals$365$479 – $628: 225 hospitals$628 – $823: 191 hospitals$628$823 – $1,079: 83 hospitals$823median $269price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,866 of 3,178 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$72$94118
$94$124200
$124$162304
$162$213378
$213$279497
$279$365447
$365$479423
$479$628225
$628$823191
$823$1,07983

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$269
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $269.

Alaska: median $418 across 17 hospitalsAK$418Maine: median $199 across 25 hospitalsME$199Vermont: median $622 across 11 hospitalsVT$622New Hampshire: median $285 across 22 hospitalsNH$285Washington: median $301 across 70 hospitalsWA$301Idaho: median $319 across 21 hospitalsID$319Montana: median $230 across 16 hospitalsMT$230North Dakota: median $178 across 29 hospitalsND$178Minnesota: median $196 across 93 hospitalsMN$196Illinois: median $363 across 120 hospitalsIL$363Wisconsin: median $243 across 106 hospitalsWI$243Michigan: median $187 across 85 hospitalsMI$187New York: median $275 across 103 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $377 across 51 hospitalsMA$377Oregon: median $289 across 46 hospitalsOR$289Nevada: median $353 across 20 hospitalsNV$353Wyoming: median $297 across 14 hospitalsWY$297South Dakota: median $408 across 28 hospitalsSD$408Iowa: median $215 across 81 hospitalsIA$215Indiana: median $214 across 90 hospitalsIN$214Ohio: median $309 across 140 hospitalsOH$309Pennsylvania: median $312 across 115 hospitalsPA$312New Jersey: median $135 across 56 hospitalsNJ$135Connecticut: median $328 across 22 hospitalsCT$328Rhode Island: median $261 across 10 hospitalsRI$261California: median $494 across 216 hospitalsCA$494Utah: median $445 across 36 hospitalsUT$445Colorado: median $329 across 57 hospitalsCO$329Nebraska: median $349 across 69 hospitalsNE$349Missouri: median $224 across 73 hospitalsMO$224Kentucky: median $323 across 63 hospitalsKY$323West Virginia: median $206 across 42 hospitalsWV$206Virginia: median $337 across 69 hospitalsVA$337Maryland: median $217 across 38 hospitalsMD$217Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $121 across 53 hospitalsAZ$121New Mexico: median $258 across 29 hospitalsNM$258Kansas: median $236 across 72 hospitalsKS$236Arkansas: median $182 across 23 hospitalsAR$182Tennessee: median $153 across 75 hospitalsTN$153North Carolina: median $242 across 94 hospitalsNC$242South Carolina: median $391 across 53 hospitalsSC$391Oklahoma: median $217 across 61 hospitalsOK$217Louisiana: median $161 across 53 hospitalsLA$161Mississippi: median $135 across 49 hospitalsMS$135Alabama: median $180 across 40 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $235 across 101 hospitalsGA$235Hawaii: median $296 across 19 hospitalsHI$296Texas: median $271 across 229 hospitalsTX$271Florida: median $621 across 167 hospitalsFL$621
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $269. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT11$622+131%$453 – $700
Florida FL167$621+131%$353 – $1,774
California CA216$494+83%$246 – $769
Utah UT36$445+65%$274 – $445
Alaska AK17$418+55%$190 – $622
South Dakota SD28$408+52%$319 – $480
South Carolina SC53$391+45%$149 – $553
Massachusetts MA51$377+40%$239 – $653
Illinois IL120$363+35%$147 – $658
Nevada NV20$353+31%$113 – $656
Nebraska NE69$349+30%$237 – $432
Virginia VA69$337+25%$196 – $697
Colorado CO57$329+22%$214 – $516
Connecticut CT22$328+22%$215 – $436
Kentucky KY63$323+20%$175 – $491
Idaho ID21$319+18%$186 – $441
Pennsylvania PA115$312+16%$125 – $477
Ohio OH140$309+15%$210 – $477
Washington WA70$301+12%$195 – $422
Wyoming WY14$297+10%$90 – $416
Hawaii HI19$296+10%$211 – $360
Oregon OR46$289+7%$200 – $358
New Hampshire NH22$285+6%$194 – $488
New York NY103$275+2%$126 – $502
Texas TX229$271+1%$171 – $658
Rhode Island RI10$261−3%$149 – $286
New Mexico NM29$258−4%$180 – $407
Wisconsin WI106$243−10%$102 – $323
North Carolina NC94$242−10%$151 – $408
Kansas KS72$236−12%$172 – $389
Georgia GA101$235−13%$121 – $434
Montana MT16$230−15%$185 – $275
Missouri MO73$224−17%$152 – $398
Maryland MD38$217−19%$149 – $281
Oklahoma OK61$217−19%$140 – $383
Iowa IA81$215−20%$161 – $289
Indiana IN90$214−21%$166 – $333
West Virginia WV42$206−24%$147 – $403
Maine ME25$199−26%$107 – $336
Minnesota MN93$196−27%$94 – $295
Michigan MI85$187−31%$131 – $327
Arkansas AR23$182−32%$92 – $262
Alabama AL40$180−33%$94 – $465
North Dakota ND29$178−34%$123 – $265
Louisiana LA53$161−40%$79 – $249
Tennessee TN75$153−43%$69 – $230
New Jersey NJ56$135−50%$111 – $243
Mississippi MS49$135−50%$92 – $178
Arizona AZ53$121−55%$101 – $407
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 $269.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,291$275$140 – $542
Children’s61$368$253 – $582
Critical access816$250$151 – $387
Ownership
For-profit465$373$161 – $1,159
Government544$228$128 – $375
Non-profit2,159$271$144 – $474
System affiliation
Part of a system2,630$276$148 – $503
Independent548$238$126 – $415

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$454
Median cash price$269
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

2,211 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $287 and the average of the middle 60% is $298; most fall between $149 and $488.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,211 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
$105$174$287$445$658

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $658).

Of the 2,449 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,211 gave a usable cash price; 131 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 107 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,178 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (80%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,521 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,178
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here223
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 — excluded119
Hospitals that filed this code3,521

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 Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radiologic Exam Sacroiliac Joints 3/More 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 sacroiliac joints, 3 or more views (CPT 72202) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72202-x-ray-of-the-sacroiliac-joints-3-or-more-views