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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the elbow, three or more views

CPT 73080the billing code this page is about

Complete X-ray imaging of one elbow using at least three pictures.

Hospitals typically charge $258 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,260 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $269. Most fall between $129 and $451 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,260
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 3,260 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$148$258$407$649

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $649).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $87: 148 hospitals$66$87 – $115: 231 hospitals$115 – $151: 295 hospitals$115$151 – $199: 324 hospitals$199 – $262: 499 hospitals$199$262 – $345: 487 hospitals$345 – $454: 478 hospitals$345$454 – $598: 236 hospitals$598 – $788: 133 hospitals$598$788 – $1,037: 104 hospitals$788median $258price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,935 of 3,260 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$87148
$87$115231
$115$151295
$151$199324
$199$262499
$262$345487
$345$454478
$454$598236
$598$788133
$788$1,037104

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 $385 across 17 hospitalsAK$385Maine: median $181 across 25 hospitalsME$181Vermont: median $454 across 12 hospitalsVT$454New Hampshire: median $247 across 22 hospitalsNH$247Washington: median $260 across 63 hospitalsWA$260Idaho: median $253 across 22 hospitalsID$253Montana: median $209 across 19 hospitalsMT$209North Dakota: median $166 across 28 hospitalsND$166Minnesota: median $216 across 99 hospitalsMN$216Illinois: median $320 across 125 hospitalsIL$320Wisconsin: median $239 across 110 hospitalsWI$239Michigan: median $148 across 85 hospitalsMI$148New York: median $202 across 101 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $323 across 52 hospitalsMA$323Oregon: median $244 across 45 hospitalsOR$244Nevada: median $349 across 21 hospitalsNV$349Wyoming: median $274 across 14 hospitalsWY$274South Dakota: median $380 across 43 hospitalsSD$380Iowa: median $218 across 89 hospitalsIA$218Indiana: median $208 across 89 hospitalsIN$208Ohio: median $280 across 141 hospitalsOH$280Pennsylvania: median $224 across 116 hospitalsPA$224New Jersey: median $117 across 46 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $440 across 194 hospitalsCA$440Utah: median $376 across 42 hospitalsUT$376Colorado: median $276 across 66 hospitalsCO$276Nebraska: median $327 across 83 hospitalsNE$327Missouri: median $230 across 74 hospitalsMO$230Kentucky: median $317 across 66 hospitalsKY$317West Virginia: median $179 across 42 hospitalsWV$179Virginia: median $323 across 71 hospitalsVA$323Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $142 across 51 hospitalsAZ$142New Mexico: median $260 across 29 hospitalsNM$260Kansas: median $225 across 87 hospitalsKS$225Arkansas: median $104 across 35 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $118 across 71 hospitalsTN$118North Carolina: median $265 across 94 hospitalsNC$265South Carolina: median $367 across 53 hospitalsSC$367Oklahoma: median $206 across 68 hospitalsOK$206Louisiana: median $140 across 55 hospitalsLA$140Mississippi: median $111 across 47 hospitalsMS$111Alabama: median $180 across 43 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $230 across 104 hospitalsGA$230Hawaii: median $263 across 19 hospitalsHI$263Texas: median $383 across 231 hospitalsTX$383Florida: median $598 across 173 hospitalsFL$598
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 FL173$598+132%$301 – $2,241
Vermont VT12$454+76%$356 – $758
California CA194$440+70%$235 – $807
Alaska AK17$385+49%$249 – $622
Texas TX231$383+48%$161 – $774
South Dakota SD43$380+47%$257 – $549
Utah UT42$376+46%$369 – $418
South Carolina SC53$367+42%$106 – $438
Nevada NV21$349+35%$109 – $557
Nebraska NE83$327+27%$206 – $391
Massachusetts MA52$323+25%$230 – $466
Virginia VA71$323+25%$208 – $763
Illinois IL125$320+24%$171 – $538
Kentucky KY66$317+23%$155 – $461
Ohio OH141$280+9%$184 – $400
Colorado CO66$276+7%$202 – $378
Wyoming WY14$274+6%$83 – $405
North Carolina NC94$265+3%$196 – $403
Hawaii HI19$263+2%$232 – $372
Washington WA63$260+1%$132 – $362
New Mexico NM29$260+1%$180 – $468
Idaho ID22$253−2%$135 – $365
New Hampshire NH22$247−4%$179 – $551
Oregon OR45$244−6%$102 – $342
Wisconsin WI110$239−7%$98 – $305
Georgia GA104$230−11%$108 – $405
Missouri MO74$230−11%$149 – $401
Kansas KS87$225−13%$143 – $312
Pennsylvania PA116$224−13%$105 – $453
Iowa IA89$218−15%$143 – $291
Connecticut CT22$217−16%$118 – $360
Minnesota MN99$216−16%$132 – $314
Rhode Island RI10$213−17%$91 – $286
Montana MT19$209−19%$181 – $291
Indiana IN89$208−19%$118 – $290
Oklahoma OK68$206−20%$119 – $310
New York NY101$202−22%$104 – $484
Maryland MD40$191−26%$128 – $246
Maine ME25$181−30%$94 – $289
Alabama AL43$180−30%$86 – $429
West Virginia WV42$179−31%$139 – $277
North Dakota ND28$166−36%$121 – $242
Michigan MI85$148−43%$116 – $339
Arizona AZ51$142−45%$93 – $457
Louisiana LA55$140−46%$79 – $202
Tennessee TN71$118−54%$73 – $277
New Jersey NJ46$117−54%$98 – $243
Mississippi MS47$111−57%$74 – $156
Arkansas AR35$104−60%$66 – $231
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 care2,294$268$127 – $500
Children’s66$389$205 – $515
Critical access890$238$128 – $374
Ownership
For-profit481$365$148 – $1,255
Government592$230$116 – $359
Non-profit2,177$254$130 – $438
System affiliation
Part of a system2,673$270$136 – $466
Independent587$215$100 – $371

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$419
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

2,248 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $276 and the average of the middle 60% is $284; most fall between $138 and $450.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,248 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
$98$160$276$418$600

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $600).

Of the 2,499 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,248 gave a usable cash price; 141 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

3,260 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 3,642 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,260
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here247
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 — excluded134
Hospitals that filed this code3,642

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 3+ 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, three or more views (CPT 73080) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73080-x-ray-of-the-elbow-three-or-more-views