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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the forearm, two views

CPT 73090the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the forearm bones between the elbow and wrist, using at least two pictures.

Hospitals typically charge $227 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,286 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $237. Most fall between $116 and $395 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,286
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 3,286 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
$83$132$227$359$588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $588).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $78: 134 hospitals$59$78 – $104: 239 hospitals$104 – $138: 331 hospitals$104$138 – $183: 381 hospitals$183 – $243: 520 hospitals$183$243 – $323: 514 hospitals$323 – $429: 437 hospitals$323$429 – $570: 209 hospitals$570 – $757: 115 hospitals$570$757 – $1,006: 78 hospitals$757median $227price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,958 of 3,286 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$78134
$78$104239
$104$138331
$138$183381
$183$243520
$243$323514
$323$429437
$429$570209
$570$757115
$757$1,00678

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$227
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $227.

Alaska: median $355 across 17 hospitalsAK$355Maine: median $171 across 25 hospitalsME$171Vermont: median $455 across 12 hospitalsVT$455New Hampshire: median $221 across 22 hospitalsNH$221Washington: median $222 across 63 hospitalsWA$222Idaho: median $243 across 22 hospitalsID$243Montana: median $182 across 19 hospitalsMT$182North Dakota: median $150 across 28 hospitalsND$150Minnesota: median $180 across 99 hospitalsMN$180Illinois: median $294 across 126 hospitalsIL$294Wisconsin: median $199 across 110 hospitalsWI$199Michigan: median $154 across 85 hospitalsMI$154New York: median $202 across 101 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $308 across 50 hospitalsMA$308Oregon: median $202 across 45 hospitalsOR$202Nevada: median $275 across 21 hospitalsNV$275Wyoming: median $227 across 14 hospitalsWY$227South Dakota: median $354 across 43 hospitalsSD$354Iowa: median $204 across 89 hospitalsIA$204Indiana: median $184 across 91 hospitalsIN$184Ohio: median $230 across 141 hospitalsOH$230Pennsylvania: median $216 across 116 hospitalsPA$216New Jersey: median $117 across 46 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $386 across 193 hospitalsCA$386Utah: median $283 across 42 hospitalsUT$283Colorado: median $242 across 66 hospitalsCO$242Nebraska: median $266 across 83 hospitalsNE$266Missouri: median $180 across 75 hospitalsMO$180Kentucky: median $272 across 67 hospitalsKY$272West Virginia: median $178 across 43 hospitalsWV$178Virginia: median $330 across 71 hospitalsVA$330Maryland: median $159 across 40 hospitalsMD$159Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $101 across 51 hospitalsAZ$101New Mexico: median $246 across 29 hospitalsNM$246Kansas: median $190 across 89 hospitalsKS$190Arkansas: median $75 across 36 hospitalsAR$75Tennessee: median $115 across 77 hospitalsTN$115North Carolina: median $227 across 95 hospitalsNC$227South Carolina: median $332 across 53 hospitalsSC$332Oklahoma: median $180 across 70 hospitalsOK$180Louisiana: median $131 across 55 hospitalsLA$131Mississippi: median $95 across 50 hospitalsMS$95Alabama: median $146 across 43 hospitalsAL$146Georgia: median $215 across 106 hospitalsGA$215Hawaii: median $240 across 19 hospitalsHI$240Texas: median $340 across 239 hospitalsTX$340Florida: median $570 across 171 hospitalsFL$570
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $227. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL171$570+151%$266 – $1,998
Vermont VT12$455+101%$255 – $680
California CA193$386+70%$175 – $637
Alaska AK17$355+57%$222 – $622
South Dakota SD43$354+56%$258 – $491
Texas TX239$340+50%$159 – $631
South Carolina SC53$332+46%$148 – $378
Virginia VA71$330+45%$195 – $509
Massachusetts MA50$308+36%$173 – $443
Illinois IL126$294+30%$144 – $498
Utah UT42$283+25%$198 – $357
Nevada NV21$275+21%$109 – $496
Kentucky KY67$272+20%$155 – $444
Nebraska NE83$266+17%$194 – $350
New Mexico NM29$246+8%$160 – $392
Idaho ID22$243+7%$135 – $365
Colorado CO66$242+7%$172 – $349
Hawaii HI19$240+6%$214 – $286
Ohio OH141$230+1%$173 – $395
North Carolina NC95$2270%$127 – $296
Wyoming WY14$2270%$73 – $346
Washington WA63$222−2%$106 – $320
New Hampshire NH22$221−2%$168 – $500
Connecticut CT22$217−4%$118 – $325
Pennsylvania PA116$216−5%$107 – $466
Georgia GA106$215−5%$86 – $363
Rhode Island RI10$213−6%$91 – $286
Iowa IA89$204−10%$128 – $288
Oregon OR45$202−11%$84 – $270
New York NY101$202−11%$104 – $430
Wisconsin WI110$199−12%$90 – $301
Kansas KS89$190−16%$136 – $274
Indiana IN91$184−19%$127 – $281
Montana MT19$182−20%$147 – $250
Minnesota MN99$180−21%$45 – $253
Missouri MO75$180−21%$95 – $313
Oklahoma OK70$180−21%$133 – $315
West Virginia WV43$178−22%$122 – $277
Maine ME25$171−24%$85 – $242
Maryland MD40$159−30%$107 – $205
Michigan MI85$154−32%$99 – $278
North Dakota ND28$150−34%$108 – $220
Alabama AL43$146−36%$77 – $258
Louisiana LA55$131−42%$79 – $202
New Jersey NJ46$117−48%$97 – $243
Tennessee TN77$115−49%$66 – $205
Arizona AZ51$101−55%$83 – $312
Mississippi MS50$95−58%$45 – $158
Arkansas AR36$75−67%$64 – $172
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 $227.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,302$239$115 – $450
Children’s68$299$180 – $448
Critical access906$208$116 – $318
Ownership
For-profit489$318$133 – $1,099
Government607$197$105 – $309
Non-profit2,180$221$116 – $383
System affiliation
Part of a system2,686$235$120 – $410
Independent600$197$92 – $331

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$373
Median cash price$227
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

2,270 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $246 and the average of the middle 60% is $252; most fall between $125 and $395.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,270 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
$85$148$246$366$549

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $549).

Of the 2,527 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,270 gave a usable cash price; 146 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,286 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,678 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,286
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here252
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 code3,678

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 Forearm 2 Views|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 forearm, two views (CPT 73090) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73090-x-ray-of-the-forearm-two-views