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Procedure price report · Myelogram

Dye X-ray study of the spinal canal in the neck

CPT 72240the billing code this page is about

Covers the X-ray imaging and interpretation of the neck portion of the spinal canal after contrast dye is placed; the injection itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $1,229 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,518 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,348. Most fall between $728 and $2,516 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,518
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 1,518 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
$459$801$1,229$2,196$3,809

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($459 vs $3,809).

How the prices are spread

$292 – $395: 39 hospitals$292$395 – $534: 91 hospitals$534 – $722: 89 hospitals$534$722 – $977: 266 hospitals$977 – $1,322: 275 hospitals$977$1,322 – $1,788: 202 hospitals$1,788 – $2,419: 151 hospitals$1,788$2,419 – $3,273: 125 hospitals$3,273 – $4,427: 78 hospitals$3,273$4,427 – $5,989: 52 hospitals$4,427median $1,229price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,368 of 1,518 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$292$39539
$395$53491
$534$72289
$722$977266
$977$1,322275
$1,322$1,788202
$1,788$2,419151
$2,419$3,273125
$3,273$4,42778
$4,427$5,98952

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$1,229
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.53×

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 $1,229.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,525 across 39 hospitalsWA$1,525Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $277 across 13 hospitalsMN$277Illinois: median $1,464 across 46 hospitalsIL$1,464Wisconsin: median $1,255 across 33 hospitalsWI$1,255Michigan: median $876 across 32 hospitalsMI$876New York: median $1,286 across 67 hospitalsNY$1,286Massachusetts: median $1,900 across 26 hospitalsMA$1,900Oregon: median $1,280 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,280Nevada: median $1,124 across 14 hospitalsNV$1,124Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $774 across 22 hospitalsIA$774Indiana: median $1,297 across 43 hospitalsIN$1,297Ohio: median $1,049 across 84 hospitalsOH$1,049Pennsylvania: median $1,451 across 61 hospitalsPA$1,451New Jersey: median $874 across 36 hospitalsNJ$874Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,773 across 146 hospitalsCA$1,773Utah: median $896 across 32 hospitalsUT$896Colorado: median $1,151 across 45 hospitalsCO$1,151Nebraska: median $728 across 19 hospitalsNE$728Missouri: median $1,048 across 32 hospitalsMO$1,048Kentucky: median $1,186 across 24 hospitalsKY$1,186West Virginia: median $1,669 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,669Virginia: median $1,242 across 35 hospitalsVA$1,242Maryland: median $125 across 23 hospitalsMD$125Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $888 across 33 hospitalsAZ$888New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,528 across 19 hospitalsKS$2,528Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $813 across 23 hospitalsTN$813North Carolina: median $788 across 35 hospitalsNC$788South Carolina: median $1,263 across 36 hospitalsSC$1,263Oklahoma: median $437 across 28 hospitalsOK$437Louisiana: median $743 across 28 hospitalsLA$743Mississippi: median $666 across 18 hospitalsMS$666Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,104 across 41 hospitalsGA$1,104Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,199 across 156 hospitalsTX$1,199Florida: median $3,109 across 104 hospitalsFL$3,109
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,229. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL104$3,109+153%$1,876 – $8,383
Kansas KS19$2,528+106%$738 – $4,919
Massachusetts MA26$1,900+55%$964 – $2,834
California CA146$1,773+44%$979 – $2,690
West Virginia WV11$1,669+36%$1,603 – $2,586
Washington WA39$1,525+24%$1,065 – $2,206
Illinois IL46$1,464+19%$450 – $1,826
Pennsylvania PA61$1,451+18%$801 – $3,476
Indiana IN43$1,297+6%$977 – $1,720
New York NY67$1,286+5%$801 – $2,271
Oregon OR18$1,280+4%$811 – $2,356
South Carolina SC36$1,263+3%$1,119 – $2,410
Wisconsin WI33$1,255+2%$608 – $1,255
Virginia VA35$1,242+1%$862 – $1,284
Texas TX156$1,199−2%$875 – $2,709
Kentucky KY24$1,186−3%$490 – $5,250
Colorado CO45$1,151−6%$759 – $3,197
Nevada NV14$1,124−9%$351 – $2,702
Georgia GA41$1,104−10%$816 – $1,576
Ohio OH84$1,049−15%$796 – $2,655
Missouri MO32$1,048−15%$876 – $2,555
Utah UT32$896−27%$896 – $1,076
Arizona AZ33$888−28%$503 – $4,891
Michigan MI32$876−29%$654 – $1,601
New Jersey NJ36$874−29%$462 – $2,533
Tennessee TN23$813−34%$310 – $1,211
North Carolina NC35$788−36%$576 – $1,161
Iowa IA22$774−37%$530 – $1,577
Louisiana LA28$743−40%$314 – $1,211
Nebraska NE19$728−41%$497 – $1,272
Mississippi MS18$666−46%$487 – $912
Oklahoma OK28$437−64%$73 – $1,526
Minnesota MN13$277−77%$203 – $900
Maryland MD23$125−90%$82 – $1,346
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $1,229.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,318$1,235$738 – $2,593
Children’s33$1,467$708 – $2,486
Critical access159$1,128$608 – $1,807
Ownership
For-profit240$2,095$875 – $6,542
Government181$1,104$685 – $2,086
Non-profit1,089$1,199$718 – $2,379
System affiliation
Part of a system1,306$1,233$733 – $2,550
Independent212$1,186$660 – $2,234

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,168
Median cash price$1,229
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

1,089 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,255 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,360; most fall between $733 and $2,419.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,089 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
$450$846$1,255$2,052$3,310

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($450 vs $3,310).

Of the 1,224 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,089 gave a usable cash price; 65 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 70 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,518 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,707 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,518
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here111
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 — excluded77
Hospitals that filed this code1,707

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 Myelogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Myelography Cervical Rs&I|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, “Dye X-ray study of the spinal canal in the neck (CPT 72240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72240-dye-x-ray-study-of-the-spinal-canal-in-the-neck