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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of both collarbone-shoulder joints

CPT 73050the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the acromioclavicular joints on both sides, taken with or without added weight pulling on the arms.

Hospitals typically charge $239 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,123 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $250. Most fall between $124 and $428 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,123
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 3,123 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
$86$148$239$377$640

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $640).

How the prices are spread

$65 – $86: 141 hospitals$65$86 – $113: 241 hospitals$113 – $149: 250 hospitals$113$149 – $197: 390 hospitals$197 – $259: 561 hospitals$197$259 – $342: 456 hospitals$342 – $451: 358 hospitals$342$451 – $595: 218 hospitals$595 – $785: 137 hospitals$595$785 – $1,035: 60 hospitals$785median $239price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,812 of 3,123 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$65$86141
$86$113241
$113$149250
$149$197390
$197$259561
$259$342456
$342$451358
$451$595218
$595$785137
$785$1,03560

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$239
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.7×

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 $239.

Alaska: median $382 across 17 hospitalsAK$382Maine: median $203 across 25 hospitalsME$203Vermont: median $454 across 12 hospitalsVT$454New Hampshire: median $273 across 21 hospitalsNH$273Washington: median $241 across 68 hospitalsWA$241Idaho: median $289 across 20 hospitalsID$289Montana: median $226 across 19 hospitalsMT$226North Dakota: median $161 across 29 hospitalsND$161Minnesota: median $185 across 89 hospitalsMN$185Illinois: median $296 across 124 hospitalsIL$296Wisconsin: median $235 across 101 hospitalsWI$235Michigan: median $214 across 83 hospitalsMI$214New York: median $202 across 97 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $328 across 47 hospitalsMA$328Oregon: median $247 across 45 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $226 across 21 hospitalsNV$226Wyoming: median $270 across 14 hospitalsWY$270South Dakota: median $356 across 30 hospitalsSD$356Iowa: median $188 across 77 hospitalsIA$188Indiana: median $208 across 90 hospitalsIN$208Ohio: median $284 across 140 hospitalsOH$284Pennsylvania: median $224 across 103 hospitalsPA$224New Jersey: median $121 across 57 hospitalsNJ$121Connecticut: median $203 across 17 hospitalsCT$203Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $402 across 214 hospitalsCA$402Utah: median $394 across 39 hospitalsUT$394Colorado: median $236 across 64 hospitalsCO$236Nebraska: median $271 across 79 hospitalsNE$271Missouri: median $256 across 74 hospitalsMO$256Kentucky: median $295 across 60 hospitalsKY$295West Virginia: median $194 across 40 hospitalsWV$194Virginia: median $294 across 65 hospitalsVA$294Maryland: median $182 across 37 hospitalsMD$182Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $107 across 52 hospitalsAZ$107New Mexico: median $234 across 28 hospitalsNM$234Kansas: median $223 across 77 hospitalsKS$223Arkansas: median $143 across 25 hospitalsAR$143Tennessee: median $90 across 72 hospitalsTN$90North Carolina: median $220 across 91 hospitalsNC$220South Carolina: median $232 across 51 hospitalsSC$232Oklahoma: median $180 across 62 hospitalsOK$180Louisiana: median $120 across 51 hospitalsLA$120Mississippi: median $104 across 42 hospitalsMS$104Alabama: median $180 across 35 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $225 across 99 hospitalsGA$225Hawaii: median $295 across 18 hospitalsHI$295Texas: median $257 across 229 hospitalsTX$257Florida: median $396 across 157 hospitalsFL$396
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $239. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$454+90%$363 – $740
California CA214$402+68%$178 – $691
Florida FL157$396+66%$259 – $2,109
Utah UT39$394+65%$218 – $450
Alaska AK17$382+60%$118 – $622
South Dakota SD30$356+49%$317 – $462
Massachusetts MA47$328+37%$205 – $422
Illinois IL124$296+24%$175 – $617
Hawaii HI18$295+24%$247 – $376
Kentucky KY60$295+24%$150 – $441
Virginia VA65$294+23%$142 – $370
Idaho ID20$289+21%$181 – $365
Ohio OH140$284+19%$177 – $444
New Hampshire NH21$273+14%$236 – $525
Nebraska NE79$271+13%$205 – $362
Wyoming WY14$270+13%$75 – $393
Texas TX229$257+8%$159 – $541
Missouri MO74$256+7%$146 – $405
Oregon OR45$247+3%$144 – $332
Washington WA68$241+1%$162 – $344
Colorado CO64$236−1%$174 – $757
Wisconsin WI101$235−2%$104 – $315
New Mexico NM28$234−2%$186 – $375
South Carolina SC51$232−3%$121 – $361
Nevada NV21$226−5%$106 – $458
Montana MT19$226−5%$141 – $304
Georgia GA99$225−6%$88 – $453
Pennsylvania PA103$224−6%$131 – $516
Kansas KS77$223−7%$164 – $384
North Carolina NC91$220−8%$137 – $313
Michigan MI83$214−10%$120 – $332
Rhode Island RI10$213−11%$91 – $286
Indiana IN90$208−13%$120 – $297
Connecticut CT17$203−15%$118 – $337
Maine ME25$203−15%$87 – $303
New York NY97$202−16%$104 – $509
West Virginia WV40$194−19%$147 – $304
Iowa IA77$188−21%$145 – $284
Minnesota MN89$185−22%$132 – $286
Maryland MD37$182−24%$128 – $252
Alabama AL35$180−25%$86 – $238
Oklahoma OK62$180−25%$118 – $248
North Dakota ND29$161−33%$118 – $246
Arkansas AR25$143−40%$72 – $219
New Jersey NJ57$121−49%$100 – $243
Louisiana LA51$120−50%$66 – $207
Arizona AZ52$107−55%$79 – $317
Mississippi MS42$104−56%$75 – $166
Tennessee TN72$90−62%$61 – $241
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 $239.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,224$242$121 – $470
Children’s60$288$197 – $462
Critical access829$228$129 – $361
Ownership
For-profit441$328$137 – $1,192
Government571$211$104 – $340
Non-profit2,101$239$128 – $399
System affiliation
Part of a system2,570$246$128 – $443
Independent553$213$107 – $363

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$404
Median cash price$239
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

2,159 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $248 and the average of the middle 60% is $261; most fall between $136 and $424.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,159 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$160$248$380$577

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $577).

Of the 2,391 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,159 gave a usable cash price; 128 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,123 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,461 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,123
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here224
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 — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,461

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 a-C Joints Bi W/WO Weighted Distrcj|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 both collarbone-shoulder joints (CPT 73050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73050-x-ray-of-both-collarbone-shoulder-joints