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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the shoulder blade

CPT 73010the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the scapula, the flat bone at the back of the shoulder.

Hospitals typically charge $244 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,241 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $251. Most fall between $128 and $425 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,241
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,241 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
$87$144$244$375$668

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $668).

How the prices are spread

$64 – $84: 153 hospitals$64$84 – $111: 177 hospitals$111 – $146: 335 hospitals$111$146 – $192: 359 hospitals$192 – $253: 508 hospitals$192$253 – $332: 512 hospitals$332 – $437: 423 hospitals$332$437 – $575: 200 hospitals$575 – $757: 133 hospitals$575$757 – $995: 117 hospitals$757median $244price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,917 of 3,241 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$64$84153
$84$111177
$111$146335
$146$192359
$192$253508
$253$332512
$332$437423
$437$575200
$575$757133
$757$995117

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$244
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $244.

Alaska: median $370 across 17 hospitalsAK$370Maine: median $189 across 25 hospitalsME$189Vermont: median $522 across 12 hospitalsVT$522New Hampshire: median $231 across 21 hospitalsNH$231Washington: median $273 across 63 hospitalsWA$273Idaho: median $253 across 22 hospitalsID$253Montana: median $198 across 19 hospitalsMT$198North Dakota: median $149 across 26 hospitalsND$149Minnesota: median $195 across 94 hospitalsMN$195Illinois: median $313 across 123 hospitalsIL$313Wisconsin: median $230 across 108 hospitalsWI$230Michigan: median $154 across 85 hospitalsMI$154New York: median $251 across 103 hospitalsNY$251Massachusetts: median $319 across 47 hospitalsMA$319Oregon: median $232 across 45 hospitalsOR$232Nevada: median $308 across 21 hospitalsNV$308Wyoming: median $189 across 14 hospitalsWY$189South Dakota: median $334 across 33 hospitalsSD$334Iowa: median $197 across 86 hospitalsIA$197Indiana: median $199 across 92 hospitalsIN$199Ohio: median $255 across 141 hospitalsOH$255Pennsylvania: median $263 across 116 hospitalsPA$263New Jersey: median $140 across 46 hospitalsNJ$140Connecticut: median $253 across 22 hospitalsCT$253Rhode Island: median $267 across 10 hospitalsRI$267California: median $439 across 191 hospitalsCA$439Utah: median $356 across 40 hospitalsUT$356Colorado: median $253 across 65 hospitalsCO$253Nebraska: median $315 across 79 hospitalsNE$315Missouri: median $246 across 74 hospitalsMO$246Kentucky: median $255 across 67 hospitalsKY$255West Virginia: median $205 across 43 hospitalsWV$205Virginia: median $334 across 71 hospitalsVA$334Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $116 across 51 hospitalsAZ$116New Mexico: median $227 across 29 hospitalsNM$227Kansas: median $190 across 85 hospitalsKS$190Arkansas: median $82 across 35 hospitalsAR$82Tennessee: median $111 across 77 hospitalsTN$111North Carolina: median $205 across 91 hospitalsNC$205South Carolina: median $340 across 53 hospitalsSC$340Oklahoma: median $211 across 69 hospitalsOK$211Louisiana: median $133 across 55 hospitalsLA$133Mississippi: median $112 across 50 hospitalsMS$112Alabama: median $161 across 43 hospitalsAL$161Georgia: median $213 across 109 hospitalsGA$213Hawaii: median $262 across 18 hospitalsHI$262Texas: median $277 across 237 hospitalsTX$277Florida: median $597 across 172 hospitalsFL$597
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $244. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$597+145%$257 – $1,878
Vermont VT12$522+114%$358 – $773
California CA191$439+80%$235 – $840
Alaska AK17$370+52%$207 – $453
Utah UT40$356+46%$217 – $356
South Carolina SC53$340+39%$147 – $401
Virginia VA71$334+37%$132 – $591
South Dakota SD33$334+37%$277 – $447
Massachusetts MA47$319+31%$171 – $498
Nebraska NE79$315+29%$204 – $362
Illinois IL123$313+29%$145 – $488
Nevada NV21$308+26%$113 – $511
Texas TX237$277+13%$193 – $671
Washington WA63$273+12%$113 – $368
Rhode Island RI10$267+10%$91 – $286
Pennsylvania PA116$263+8%$125 – $436
Hawaii HI18$262+7%$224 – $367
Kentucky KY67$255+5%$148 – $456
Ohio OH141$255+5%$184 – $400
Idaho ID22$253+4%$135 – $441
Colorado CO65$253+4%$167 – $402
Connecticut CT22$253+4%$197 – $341
New York NY103$251+3%$124 – $452
Missouri MO74$246+1%$136 – $371
Oregon OR45$232−5%$74 – $301
New Hampshire NH21$231−5%$172 – $480
Wisconsin WI108$230−6%$90 – $301
New Mexico NM29$227−7%$174 – $358
Georgia GA109$213−13%$96 – $377
Oklahoma OK69$211−14%$130 – $321
North Carolina NC91$205−16%$161 – $309
West Virginia WV43$205−16%$122 – $326
Indiana IN92$199−19%$152 – $286
Montana MT19$198−19%$155 – $255
Iowa IA86$197−19%$143 – $310
Minnesota MN94$195−20%$120 – $284
Maryland MD40$191−22%$128 – $246
Kansas KS85$190−22%$132 – $294
Maine ME25$189−23%$103 – $353
Wyoming WY14$189−23%$63 – $373
Alabama AL43$161−34%$110 – $357
Michigan MI85$154−37%$111 – $300
North Dakota ND26$149−39%$105 – $255
New Jersey NJ46$140−43%$118 – $271
Louisiana LA55$133−46%$65 – $245
Arizona AZ51$116−52%$69 – $293
Mississippi MS50$112−54%$67 – $186
Tennessee TN77$111−54%$61 – $245
Arkansas AR35$82−67%$75 – $200
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 $244.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,291$252$130 – $477
Children’s65$280$198 – $442
Critical access875$221$120 – $351
Ownership
For-profit482$307$144 – $1,180
Government597$197$116 – $340
Non-profit2,152$245$130 – $402
System affiliation
Part of a system2,655$252$132 – $441
Independent586$198$103 – $370

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$400
Median cash price$244
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

2,220 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $260 and the average of the middle 60% is $264; most fall between $137 and $422.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,220 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
$89$154$260$384$587

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $587).

Of the 2,465 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,220 gave a usable cash price; 137 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,241 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,611 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,241
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here233
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 — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,611

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 Scapula Complete|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 shoulder blade (CPT 73010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73010-x-ray-of-the-shoulder-blade