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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the sacrum and tailbone

CPT 72220the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the sacrum and coccyx at the base of the spine, using at least two views.

Hospitals typically charge $250 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,332 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $259. Most fall between $126 and $436 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,332
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 3,332 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
$88$146$250$396$671

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $671).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $88: 186 hospitals$67$88 – $116: 247 hospitals$116 – $153: 297 hospitals$116$153 – $202: 371 hospitals$202 – $266: 542 hospitals$202$266 – $350: 518 hospitals$350 – $462: 408 hospitals$350$462 – $608: 233 hospitals$608 – $801: 118 hospitals$608$801 – $1,056: 92 hospitals$801median $250price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,012 of 3,332 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$88186
$88$116247
$116$153297
$153$202371
$202$266542
$266$350518
$350$462408
$462$608233
$608$801118
$801$1,05692

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$250
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $250.

Alaska: median $385 across 17 hospitalsAK$385Maine: median $200 across 25 hospitalsME$200Vermont: median $455 across 12 hospitalsVT$455New Hampshire: median $236 across 22 hospitalsNH$236Washington: median $222 across 70 hospitalsWA$222Idaho: median $294 across 22 hospitalsID$294Montana: median $238 across 19 hospitalsMT$238North Dakota: median $158 across 33 hospitalsND$158Minnesota: median $199 across 100 hospitalsMN$199Illinois: median $334 across 124 hospitalsIL$334Wisconsin: median $227 across 109 hospitalsWI$227Michigan: median $158 across 87 hospitalsMI$158New York: median $202 across 102 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $326 across 52 hospitalsMA$326Oregon: median $187 across 46 hospitalsOR$187Nevada: median $336 across 21 hospitalsNV$336Wyoming: median $241 across 14 hospitalsWY$241South Dakota: median $390 across 42 hospitalsSD$390Iowa: median $216 across 87 hospitalsIA$216Indiana: median $204 across 90 hospitalsIN$204Ohio: median $281 across 143 hospitalsOH$281Pennsylvania: median $289 across 109 hospitalsPA$289New Jersey: median $117 across 57 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $232 across 22 hospitalsCT$232Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $427 across 217 hospitalsCA$427Utah: median $404 across 42 hospitalsUT$404Colorado: median $264 across 66 hospitalsCO$264Nebraska: median $299 across 83 hospitalsNE$299Missouri: median $230 across 75 hospitalsMO$230Kentucky: median $280 across 67 hospitalsKY$280West Virginia: median $179 across 43 hospitalsWV$179Virginia: median $312 across 71 hospitalsVA$312Maryland: median $159 across 40 hospitalsMD$159Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $108 across 53 hospitalsAZ$108New Mexico: median $236 across 28 hospitalsNM$236Kansas: median $220 across 88 hospitalsKS$220Arkansas: median $104 across 37 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $144 across 78 hospitalsTN$144North Carolina: median $233 across 94 hospitalsNC$233South Carolina: median $313 across 52 hospitalsSC$313Oklahoma: median $182 across 70 hospitalsOK$182Louisiana: median $146 across 55 hospitalsLA$146Mississippi: median $119 across 50 hospitalsMS$119Alabama: median $180 across 43 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $263 across 110 hospitalsGA$263Hawaii: median $240 across 19 hospitalsHI$240Texas: median $307 across 236 hospitalsTX$307Florida: median $579 across 174 hospitalsFL$579
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $250. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL174$579+132%$292 – $2,345
Vermont VT12$455+82%$356 – $711
California CA217$427+71%$228 – $735
Utah UT42$404+62%$325 – $438
South Dakota SD42$390+56%$276 – $535
Alaska AK17$385+54%$240 – $609
Nevada NV21$336+34%$151 – $557
Illinois IL124$334+34%$145 – $587
Massachusetts MA52$326+30%$204 – $472
South Carolina SC52$313+25%$149 – $432
Virginia VA71$312+25%$203 – $687
Texas TX236$307+23%$155 – $713
Nebraska NE83$299+20%$167 – $391
Idaho ID22$294+18%$168 – $365
Pennsylvania PA109$289+16%$126 – $514
Ohio OH143$281+13%$182 – $395
Kentucky KY67$280+12%$152 – $428
Colorado CO66$264+6%$180 – $443
Georgia GA110$263+5%$105 – $394
Wyoming WY14$241−4%$79 – $353
Hawaii HI19$240−4%$211 – $354
Montana MT19$238−5%$181 – $308
New Mexico NM28$236−6%$180 – $372
New Hampshire NH22$236−6%$185 – $534
North Carolina NC94$233−7%$172 – $359
Connecticut CT22$232−7%$118 – $360
Missouri MO75$230−8%$139 – $376
Wisconsin WI109$227−9%$90 – $333
Washington WA70$222−11%$144 – $339
Kansas KS88$220−12%$157 – $330
Iowa IA87$216−13%$147 – $285
Rhode Island RI10$213−15%$94 – $286
Indiana IN90$204−18%$135 – $304
New York NY102$202−19%$104 – $405
Maine ME25$200−20%$97 – $431
Minnesota MN100$199−20%$96 – $283
Oregon OR46$187−25%$90 – $295
Oklahoma OK70$182−27%$124 – $268
Alabama AL43$180−28%$86 – $349
West Virginia WV43$179−28%$132 – $300
Maryland MD40$159−36%$107 – $205
Michigan MI87$158−37%$109 – $359
North Dakota ND33$158−37%$104 – $222
Louisiana LA55$146−42%$71 – $224
Tennessee TN78$144−43%$75 – $283
Mississippi MS50$119−52%$61 – $168
New Jersey NJ57$117−53%$100 – $230
Arizona AZ53$108−57%$93 – $371
Arkansas AR37$104−58%$82 – $244
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 $250.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,344$256$121 – $491
Children’s64$326$201 – $493
Critical access914$234$133 – $356
Ownership
For-profit485$349$144 – $1,201
Government608$221$112 – $338
Non-profit2,229$248$125 – $426
System affiliation
Part of a system2,734$259$132 – $457
Independent598$217$102 – $370

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$409
Median cash price$250
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

2,300 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $264 and the average of the middle 60% is $272; most fall between $136 and $440.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,300 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
$92$158$264$404$587

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $587).

Of the 2,555 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,300 gave a usable cash price; 145 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,332 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,702 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,332
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here245
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 code3,702

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 Radex Sacrum & Coccyx Minimum 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 sacrum and tailbone (CPT 72220) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72220-x-ray-of-the-sacrum-and-tailbone