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Dye X-ray study of the epidural space

CPT 72275the billing code this page is about

Covers the X-ray imaging and interpretation after contrast dye is placed in the space just outside the spinal cord covering, usually done along with an epidural injection.

Hospitals typically charge $510 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 173 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $445. Most fall between $78 and $837 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
173
States
31
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 173 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
$41$142$510$679$1,256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $1,256).

How the prices are spread

$34 – $53: 19 hospitals$34$53 – $80: 8 hospitals$80 – $123: 5 hospitals$80$123 – $188: 9 hospitals$188 – $288: 11 hospitals$188$288 – $440: 23 hospitals$440 – $673: 45 hospitals$440$673 – $1,029: 16 hospitals$1,029 – $1,574: 15 hospitals$1,029$1,574 – $2,407: 6 hospitals$1,574median $510price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (157 of 173 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$34$5319
$53$808
$80$1235
$123$1889
$188$28811
$288$44023
$440$67345
$673$1,02916
$1,029$1,57415
$1,574$2,4076

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $510.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $38 across 18 hospitalsPA$38New Jersey: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $652 across 13 hospitalsCA$652Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $589 across 38 hospitalsTX$589Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $510. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA13$652+28%$510 – $1,264
Texas TX38$589+15%$367 – $1,256
Pennsylvania PA18$38−93%$30 – $589
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $510.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care156$520$99 – $890
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit32$589$142 – $1,996
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit123$510$99 – $819
System affiliation
Part of a system144$520$99 – $819
Independent29$327$68 – $1,040

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$603
Median cash price$510
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

135 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $520 and the average of the middle 60% is $461; most fall between $102 and $819.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 135 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
$41$142$520$652$1,256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $1,256).

Of the 150 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 135 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

173 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 198 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted173
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here11
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code198

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 5, 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Radiology.

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 epidural space (CPT 72275) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-72275-dye-x-ray-study-of-the-epidural-space