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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the shoulder, single view

CPT 73020the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of one shoulder using a single picture.

Hospitals typically charge $194 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,203 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $203. Most fall between $102 and $351 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,203
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 3,203 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
$68$115$194$310$525

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($68 vs $525).

How the prices are spread

$51 – $66: 158 hospitals$51$66 – $86: 166 hospitals$86 – $113: 307 hospitals$86$113 – $147: 330 hospitals$147 – $192: 452 hospitals$147$192 – $250: 506 hospitals$250 – $326: 406 hospitals$250$326 – $426: 291 hospitals$426 – $556: 127 hospitals$426$556 – $725: 149 hospitals$556median $194price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,892 of 3,203 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$51$66158
$66$86166
$86$113307
$113$147330
$147$192452
$192$250506
$250$326406
$326$426291
$426$556127
$556$725149

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$194
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $194.

Alaska: median $278 across 17 hospitalsAK$278Maine: median $150 across 25 hospitalsME$150Vermont: median $382 across 12 hospitalsVT$382New Hampshire: median $209 across 18 hospitalsNH$209Washington: median $200 across 63 hospitalsWA$200Idaho: median $194 across 22 hospitalsID$194Montana: median $169 across 19 hospitalsMT$169North Dakota: median $139 across 26 hospitalsND$139Minnesota: median $168 across 95 hospitalsMN$168Illinois: median $240 across 122 hospitalsIL$240Wisconsin: median $175 across 108 hospitalsWI$175Michigan: median $120 across 83 hospitalsMI$120New York: median $142 across 110 hospitalsNY$142Massachusetts: median $265 across 46 hospitalsMA$265Oregon: median $188 across 44 hospitalsOR$188Nevada: median $276 across 20 hospitalsNV$276Wyoming: median $185 across 14 hospitalsWY$185South Dakota: median $309 across 35 hospitalsSD$309Iowa: median $165 across 82 hospitalsIA$165Indiana: median $156 across 90 hospitalsIN$156Ohio: median $204 across 137 hospitalsOH$204Pennsylvania: median $214 across 115 hospitalsPA$214New Jersey: median $117 across 43 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $238 across 22 hospitalsCT$238Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $343 across 189 hospitalsCA$343Utah: median $279 across 40 hospitalsUT$279Colorado: median $192 across 65 hospitalsCO$192Nebraska: median $224 across 84 hospitalsNE$224Missouri: median $146 across 75 hospitalsMO$146Kentucky: median $209 across 64 hospitalsKY$209West Virginia: median $182 across 41 hospitalsWV$182Virginia: median $223 across 71 hospitalsVA$223Maryland: median $127 across 38 hospitalsMD$127Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $99 across 51 hospitalsAZ$99New Mexico: median $185 across 29 hospitalsNM$185Kansas: median $162 across 86 hospitalsKS$162Arkansas: median $60 across 36 hospitalsAR$60Tennessee: median $96 across 78 hospitalsTN$96North Carolina: median $179 across 92 hospitalsNC$179South Carolina: median $233 across 51 hospitalsSC$233Oklahoma: median $164 across 68 hospitalsOK$164Louisiana: median $119 across 54 hospitalsLA$119Mississippi: median $97 across 48 hospitalsMS$97Alabama: median $152 across 40 hospitalsAL$152Georgia: median $175 across 101 hospitalsGA$175Hawaii: median $240 across 19 hospitalsHI$240Texas: median $307 across 234 hospitalsTX$307Florida: median $416 across 166 hospitalsFL$416
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $194. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL166$416+114%$213 – $1,338
Vermont VT12$382+97%$341 – $572
California CA189$343+77%$170 – $656
South Dakota SD35$309+59%$196 – $383
Texas TX234$307+58%$162 – $493
Utah UT40$279+43%$268 – $279
Alaska AK17$278+43%$157 – $452
Nevada NV20$276+42%$94 – $379
Massachusetts MA46$265+36%$154 – $369
Hawaii HI19$240+23%$185 – $295
Illinois IL122$240+23%$101 – $404
Connecticut CT22$238+22%$133 – $260
South Carolina SC51$233+20%$127 – $295
Nebraska NE84$224+15%$163 – $290
Virginia VA71$223+14%$139 – $475
Pennsylvania PA115$214+10%$100 – $470
New Hampshire NH18$209+8%$112 – $423
Kentucky KY64$209+8%$120 – $354
Ohio OH137$204+5%$159 – $276
Washington WA63$200+3%$106 – $277
Idaho ID22$1940%$128 – $365
Colorado CO65$192−1%$141 – $265
Oregon OR44$188−3%$96 – $267
New Mexico NM29$185−5%$135 – $342
Wyoming WY14$185−5%$62 – $267
West Virginia WV41$182−6%$117 – $261
North Carolina NC92$179−8%$144 – $303
Wisconsin WI108$175−10%$79 – $287
Georgia GA101$175−10%$81 – $300
Montana MT19$169−13%$121 – $229
Minnesota MN95$168−14%$83 – $223
Iowa IA82$165−15%$106 – $214
Oklahoma OK68$164−15%$98 – $250
Kansas KS86$162−17%$119 – $256
Indiana IN90$156−20%$102 – $207
Alabama AL40$152−22%$78 – $331
Maine ME25$150−23%$60 – $229
Missouri MO75$146−25%$92 – $260
New York NY110$142−27%$56 – $267
North Dakota ND26$139−28%$88 – $212
Maryland MD38$127−34%$85 – $164
Michigan MI83$120−38%$91 – $289
Louisiana LA54$119−39%$65 – $176
New Jersey NJ43$117−40%$97 – $243
Arizona AZ51$99−49%$61 – $287
Mississippi MS48$97−50%$60 – $149
Tennessee TN78$96−51%$63 – $188
Arkansas AR36$60−69%$48 – $185
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $194.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,276$197$102 – $395
Children’s63$270$155 – $396
Critical access854$181$98 – $279
Ownership
For-profit480$272$118 – $898
Government578$171$92 – $268
Non-profit2,135$193$101 – $340
System affiliation
Part of a system2,643$201$104 – $366
Independent560$166$86 – $282

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$322
Median cash price$194
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

2,204 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $207 and the average of the middle 60% is $216; most fall between $109 and $359.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,204 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
$73$123$207$324$474

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($73 vs $474).

Of the 2,443 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,204 gave a usable cash price; 134 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,203 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,567 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,203
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here236
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 — excluded127
Hospitals that filed this code3,567

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 Shoulder 1 View|TECHNICAL 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, single view (CPT 73020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73020-x-ray-of-the-shoulder-single-view