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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the shoulder, two or more views

CPT 73030the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of one shoulder using at least two different pictures.

Hospitals typically charge $258 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,314 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $270. Most fall between $128 and $461 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,314
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 3,314 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$153$258$410$720

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $720).

How the prices are spread

$65 – $86: 158 hospitals$65$86 – $114: 249 hospitals$114 – $152: 249 hospitals$114$152 – $201: 395 hospitals$201 – $267: 505 hospitals$201$267 – $355: 517 hospitals$355 – $471: 431 hospitals$355$471 – $624: 210 hospitals$624 – $828: 181 hospitals$624$828 – $1,099: 89 hospitals$828median $258price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,984 of 3,314 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$65$86158
$86$114249
$114$152249
$152$201395
$201$267505
$267$355517
$355$471431
$471$624210
$624$828181
$828$1,09989

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$258
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $258.

Alaska: median $449 across 17 hospitalsAK$449Maine: median $184 across 25 hospitalsME$184Vermont: median $471 across 12 hospitalsVT$471New Hampshire: median $234 across 22 hospitalsNH$234Washington: median $269 across 64 hospitalsWA$269Idaho: median $249 across 22 hospitalsID$249Montana: median $227 across 19 hospitalsMT$227North Dakota: median $172 across 28 hospitalsND$172Minnesota: median $204 across 99 hospitalsMN$204Illinois: median $338 across 125 hospitalsIL$338Wisconsin: median $235 across 109 hospitalsWI$235Michigan: median $214 across 85 hospitalsMI$214New York: median $163 across 111 hospitalsNY$163Massachusetts: median $319 across 52 hospitalsMA$319Oregon: median $247 across 45 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $357 across 21 hospitalsNV$357Wyoming: median $266 across 14 hospitalsWY$266South Dakota: median $402 across 43 hospitalsSD$402Iowa: median $227 across 89 hospitalsIA$227Indiana: median $199 across 91 hospitalsIN$199Ohio: median $299 across 141 hospitalsOH$299Pennsylvania: median $285 across 116 hospitalsPA$285New Jersey: median $117 across 46 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $510 across 196 hospitalsCA$510Utah: median $371 across 42 hospitalsUT$371Colorado: median $254 across 66 hospitalsCO$254Nebraska: median $334 across 85 hospitalsNE$334Missouri: median $223 across 76 hospitalsMO$223Kentucky: median $272 across 67 hospitalsKY$272West Virginia: median $179 across 42 hospitalsWV$179Virginia: median $319 across 71 hospitalsVA$319Maryland: median $159 across 40 hospitalsMD$159Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $142 across 52 hospitalsAZ$142New Mexico: median $241 across 30 hospitalsNM$241Kansas: median $209 across 90 hospitalsKS$209Arkansas: median $101 across 35 hospitalsAR$101Tennessee: median $128 across 77 hospitalsTN$128North Carolina: median $279 across 95 hospitalsNC$279South Carolina: median $348 across 53 hospitalsSC$348Oklahoma: median $249 across 70 hospitalsOK$249Louisiana: median $133 across 56 hospitalsLA$133Mississippi: median $118 across 50 hospitalsMS$118Alabama: median $201 across 43 hospitalsAL$201Georgia: median $217 across 110 hospitalsGA$217Hawaii: median $251 across 19 hospitalsHI$251Texas: median $308 across 241 hospitalsTX$308Florida: median $728 across 174 hospitalsFL$728
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $258. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL174$728+182%$315 – $2,441
California CA196$510+98%$224 – $807
Vermont VT12$471+83%$354 – $620
Alaska AK17$449+74%$251 – $736
South Dakota SD43$402+56%$258 – $598
Utah UT42$371+44%$241 – $412
Nevada NV21$357+38%$216 – $587
South Carolina SC53$348+35%$162 – $456
Illinois IL125$338+31%$173 – $590
Nebraska NE85$334+29%$166 – $421
Massachusetts MA52$319+24%$178 – $487
Virginia VA71$319+24%$188 – $760
Texas TX241$308+19%$183 – $798
Ohio OH141$299+16%$196 – $395
Pennsylvania PA116$285+10%$116 – $470
North Carolina NC95$279+8%$190 – $398
Kentucky KY67$272+5%$152 – $448
Washington WA64$269+4%$106 – $375
Wyoming WY14$266+3%$81 – $430
Colorado CO66$254−2%$191 – $457
Hawaii HI19$251−3%$220 – $369
Idaho ID22$249−3%$105 – $365
Oklahoma OK70$249−3%$143 – $385
Oregon OR45$247−4%$78 – $324
New Mexico NM30$241−7%$155 – $412
Wisconsin WI109$235−9%$91 – $332
New Hampshire NH22$234−9%$194 – $542
Iowa IA89$227−12%$146 – $304
Montana MT19$227−12%$157 – $286
Missouri MO76$223−13%$141 – $412
Georgia GA110$217−16%$95 – $440
Connecticut CT22$217−16%$118 – $383
Michigan MI85$214−17%$117 – $347
Rhode Island RI10$213−17%$97 – $286
Kansas KS90$209−19%$92 – $267
Minnesota MN99$204−21%$71 – $303
Alabama AL43$201−22%$86 – $405
Indiana IN91$199−23%$129 – $305
Maine ME25$184−29%$85 – $298
West Virginia WV42$179−31%$147 – $269
North Dakota ND28$172−33%$127 – $240
New York NY111$163−37%$100 – $449
Maryland MD40$159−38%$107 – $205
Arizona AZ52$142−45%$98 – $437
Louisiana LA56$133−49%$79 – $225
Tennessee TN77$128−51%$73 – $266
Mississippi MS50$118−54%$70 – $183
New Jersey NJ46$117−54%$98 – $243
Arkansas AR35$101−61%$69 – $233
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 $258.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,327$271$126 – $524
Children’s67$349$206 – $496
Critical access910$239$127 – $374
Ownership
For-profit493$348$148 – $1,324
Government615$229$111 – $371
Non-profit2,196$254$128 – $439
System affiliation
Part of a system2,708$270$133 – $484
Independent606$220$100 – $385

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$430
Median cash price$258
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

2,277 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $277 and the average of the middle 60% is $287; most fall between $143 and $462.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,277 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
$96$172$277$422$645

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($96 vs $645).

Of the 2,538 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,277 gave a usable cash price; 152 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,314 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 3,699 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,314
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here249
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 — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code3,699

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 Complete Minimum 2 Views.

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, two or more views (CPT 73030) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73030-x-ray-of-the-shoulder-two-or-more-views