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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the elbow, two views

CPT 73070the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of one elbow using two pictures.

Hospitals typically charge $209 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,262 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $219. Most fall between $109 and $371 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,262
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 3,262 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
$79$126$209$338$543

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $543).

How the prices are spread

$55 – $73: 117 hospitals$55$73 – $95: 221 hospitals$95 – $125: 302 hospitals$95$125 – $164: 370 hospitals$164 – $215: 507 hospitals$164$215 – $282: 511 hospitals$282 – $370: 413 hospitals$282$370 – $486: 255 hospitals$486 – $637: 127 hospitals$486$637 – $836: 114 hospitals$637median $209price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,937 of 3,262 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$55$73117
$73$95221
$95$125302
$125$164370
$164$215507
$215$282511
$282$370413
$370$486255
$486$637127
$637$836114

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$209
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $209.

Alaska: median $333 across 17 hospitalsAK$333Maine: median $135 across 25 hospitalsME$135Vermont: median $368 across 12 hospitalsVT$368New Hampshire: median $218 across 21 hospitalsNH$218Washington: median $218 across 63 hospitalsWA$218Idaho: median $211 across 22 hospitalsID$211Montana: median $176 across 19 hospitalsMT$176North Dakota: median $143 across 28 hospitalsND$143Minnesota: median $178 across 99 hospitalsMN$178Illinois: median $266 across 122 hospitalsIL$266Wisconsin: median $191 across 110 hospitalsWI$191Michigan: median $133 across 84 hospitalsMI$133New York: median $200 across 98 hospitalsNY$200Massachusetts: median $276 across 46 hospitalsMA$276Oregon: median $206 across 45 hospitalsOR$206Nevada: median $245 across 21 hospitalsNV$245Wyoming: median $236 across 14 hospitalsWY$236South Dakota: median $290 across 43 hospitalsSD$290Iowa: median $164 across 88 hospitalsIA$164Indiana: median $165 across 89 hospitalsIN$165Ohio: median $231 across 142 hospitalsOH$231Pennsylvania: median $211 across 116 hospitalsPA$211New Jersey: median $113 across 46 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $225 across 10 hospitalsRI$225California: median $348 across 192 hospitalsCA$348Utah: median $216 across 41 hospitalsUT$216Colorado: median $227 across 66 hospitalsCO$227Nebraska: median $259 across 82 hospitalsNE$259Missouri: median $179 across 75 hospitalsMO$179Kentucky: median $253 across 66 hospitalsKY$253West Virginia: median $177 across 41 hospitalsWV$177Virginia: median $269 across 71 hospitalsVA$269Maryland: median $159 across 40 hospitalsMD$159Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $111 across 51 hospitalsAZ$111New Mexico: median $199 across 29 hospitalsNM$199Kansas: median $181 across 89 hospitalsKS$181Arkansas: median $62 across 36 hospitalsAR$62Tennessee: median $87 across 76 hospitalsTN$87North Carolina: median $204 across 94 hospitalsNC$204South Carolina: median $268 across 53 hospitalsSC$268Oklahoma: median $174 across 70 hospitalsOK$174Louisiana: median $119 across 53 hospitalsLA$119Mississippi: median $94 across 50 hospitalsMS$94Alabama: median $136 across 42 hospitalsAL$136Georgia: median $198 across 109 hospitalsGA$198Hawaii: median $213 across 19 hospitalsHI$213Texas: median $324 across 237 hospitalsTX$324Florida: median $494 across 172 hospitalsFL$494
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $209. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$494+136%$228 – $1,655
Vermont VT12$368+76%$256 – $539
California CA192$348+66%$181 – $606
Alaska AK17$333+59%$73 – $569
Texas TX237$324+55%$151 – $543
South Dakota SD43$290+38%$194 – $425
Massachusetts MA46$276+32%$168 – $443
Virginia VA71$269+28%$156 – $411
South Carolina SC53$268+28%$142 – $362
Illinois IL122$266+27%$127 – $385
Nebraska NE82$259+24%$165 – $331
Kentucky KY66$253+21%$139 – $378
Nevada NV21$245+17%$94 – $489
Wyoming WY14$236+13%$74 – $314
Ohio OH142$231+11%$167 – $380
Colorado CO66$227+8%$176 – $336
Rhode Island RI10$225+8%$91 – $286
Washington WA63$218+4%$106 – $304
New Hampshire NH21$218+4%$156 – $457
Connecticut CT22$217+4%$118 – $325
Utah UT41$216+3%$183 – $302
Hawaii HI19$213+2%$182 – $309
Pennsylvania PA116$211+1%$103 – $470
Idaho ID22$211+1%$144 – $365
Oregon OR45$206−1%$88 – $295
North Carolina NC94$204−2%$118 – $275
New York NY98$200−5%$93 – $355
New Mexico NM29$199−5%$145 – $343
Georgia GA109$198−5%$87 – $359
Wisconsin WI110$191−9%$94 – $274
Kansas KS89$181−13%$124 – $287
Missouri MO75$179−15%$94 – $300
Minnesota MN99$178−15%$88 – $236
West Virginia WV41$177−15%$122 – $277
Montana MT19$176−16%$128 – $229
Oklahoma OK70$174−17%$113 – $256
Indiana IN89$165−21%$112 – $246
Iowa IA88$164−22%$116 – $231
Maryland MD40$159−24%$107 – $205
North Dakota ND28$143−32%$108 – $203
Alabama AL42$136−35%$78 – $267
Maine ME25$135−36%$85 – $238
Michigan MI84$133−36%$89 – $294
Louisiana LA53$119−43%$90 – $181
New Jersey NJ46$113−46%$98 – $243
Arizona AZ51$111−47%$83 – $290
Mississippi MS50$94−55%$48 – $143
Tennessee TN76$87−58%$48 – $180
Arkansas AR36$62−70%$53 – $198
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 $209.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,292$216$107 – $404
Children’s67$314$191 – $424
Critical access893$196$109 – $292
Ownership
For-profit486$296$126 – $968
Government602$182$95 – $286
Non-profit2,164$206$109 – $359
System affiliation
Part of a system2,673$216$113 – $380
Independent589$181$90 – $308

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$346
Median cash price$209
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

2,257 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $223 and the average of the middle 60% is $232; most fall between $122 and $372.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,257 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
$82$138$223$349$503

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $503).

Of the 2,512 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,257 gave a usable cash price; 145 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,262 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 3,647 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,262
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here245
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 — excluded139
Hospitals that filed this code3,647

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 PR X-Ray Elbow 2 Vw.

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 elbow, two views (CPT 73070) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73070-x-ray-of-the-elbow-two-views