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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Wrist X-ray, 2 views

CPT 73100the billing code this page is about

Two X-ray images of one wrist, typically taken from the front and the side.

Hospitals typically charge $208 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,240 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $216. Most fall between $107 and $367 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,240
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 3,240 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
$76$123$208$328$562

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $562).

How the prices are spread

$55 – $72: 140 hospitals$55$72 – $95: 208 hospitals$95 – $125: 340 hospitals$95$125 – $165: 351 hospitals$165 – $218: 508 hospitals$165$218 – $288: 500 hospitals$288 – $380: 430 hospitals$288$380 – $502: 208 hospitals$502 – $663: 159 hospitals$502$663 – $875: 73 hospitals$663median $208price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,917 of 3,240 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$55$72140
$72$95208
$95$125340
$125$165351
$165$218508
$218$288500
$288$380430
$380$502208
$502$663159
$663$87573

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$208
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $208.

Alaska: median $322 across 17 hospitalsAK$322Maine: median $146 across 25 hospitalsME$146Vermont: median $420 across 12 hospitalsVT$420New Hampshire: median $238 across 21 hospitalsNH$238Washington: median $206 across 63 hospitalsWA$206Idaho: median $226 across 22 hospitalsID$226Montana: median $166 across 19 hospitalsMT$166North Dakota: median $161 across 28 hospitalsND$161Minnesota: median $188 across 98 hospitalsMN$188Illinois: median $245 across 123 hospitalsIL$245Wisconsin: median $214 across 109 hospitalsWI$214Michigan: median $139 across 84 hospitalsMI$139New York: median $174 across 95 hospitalsNY$174Massachusetts: median $236 across 46 hospitalsMA$236Oregon: median $217 across 45 hospitalsOR$217Nevada: median $226 across 22 hospitalsNV$226Wyoming: median $218 across 14 hospitalsWY$218South Dakota: median $290 across 43 hospitalsSD$290Iowa: median $182 across 87 hospitalsIA$182Indiana: median $155 across 94 hospitalsIN$155Ohio: median $217 across 141 hospitalsOH$217Pennsylvania: median $213 across 115 hospitalsPA$213New Jersey: median $113 across 46 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $330 across 190 hospitalsCA$330Utah: median $232 across 41 hospitalsUT$232Colorado: median $217 across 65 hospitalsCO$217Nebraska: median $230 across 83 hospitalsNE$230Missouri: median $176 across 74 hospitalsMO$176Kentucky: median $221 across 66 hospitalsKY$221West Virginia: median $173 across 42 hospitalsWV$173Virginia: median $255 across 71 hospitalsVA$255Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $107 across 51 hospitalsAZ$107New Mexico: median $194 across 29 hospitalsNM$194Kansas: median $174 across 87 hospitalsKS$174Arkansas: median $68 across 35 hospitalsAR$68Tennessee: median $99 across 74 hospitalsTN$99North Carolina: median $179 across 93 hospitalsNC$179South Carolina: median $241 across 52 hospitalsSC$241Oklahoma: median $165 across 68 hospitalsOK$165Louisiana: median $106 across 51 hospitalsLA$106Mississippi: median $97 across 49 hospitalsMS$97Alabama: median $130 across 41 hospitalsAL$130Georgia: median $182 across 109 hospitalsGA$182Hawaii: median $233 across 19 hospitalsHI$233Texas: median $306 across 234 hospitalsTX$306Florida: median $579 across 169 hospitalsFL$579
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $208. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL169$579+178%$250 – $1,405
Vermont VT12$420+101%$321 – $572
California CA190$330+58%$172 – $557
Alaska AK17$322+54%$158 – $436
Texas TX234$306+47%$157 – $537
South Dakota SD43$290+39%$239 – $412
Virginia VA71$255+22%$146 – $535
Illinois IL123$245+18%$127 – $400
South Carolina SC52$241+16%$116 – $307
New Hampshire NH21$238+14%$149 – $337
Massachusetts MA46$236+13%$154 – $402
Hawaii HI19$233+12%$181 – $367
Utah UT41$232+11%$197 – $254
Nebraska NE83$230+11%$145 – $305
Nevada NV22$226+9%$94 – $587
Idaho ID22$226+8%$135 – $365
Kentucky KY66$221+6%$124 – $383
Wyoming WY14$218+5%$84 – $313
Ohio OH141$217+4%$154 – $395
Colorado CO65$217+4%$174 – $335
Connecticut CT22$217+4%$134 – $379
Oregon OR45$217+4%$99 – $282
Wisconsin WI109$214+3%$70 – $304
Pennsylvania PA115$213+2%$103 – $457
Rhode Island RI10$213+2%$91 – $286
Washington WA63$206−1%$106 – $343
New Mexico NM29$194−7%$139 – $351
Maryland MD40$191−8%$128 – $246
Minnesota MN98$188−10%$88 – $256
Georgia GA109$182−12%$81 – $334
Iowa IA87$182−12%$121 – $251
North Carolina NC93$179−14%$110 – $274
Missouri MO74$176−15%$91 – $311
New York NY95$174−16%$77 – $367
Kansas KS87$174−17%$112 – $261
West Virginia WV42$173−17%$117 – $322
Montana MT19$166−20%$105 – $218
Oklahoma OK68$165−21%$96 – $291
North Dakota ND28$161−23%$128 – $193
Indiana IN94$155−26%$104 – $247
Maine ME25$146−30%$85 – $239
Michigan MI84$139−33%$91 – $289
Alabama AL41$130−38%$77 – $258
New Jersey NJ46$113−46%$97 – $243
Arizona AZ51$107−49%$83 – $261
Louisiana LA51$106−49%$67 – $177
Tennessee TN74$99−53%$61 – $182
Mississippi MS49$97−53%$60 – $148
Arkansas AR35$68−67%$51 – $185
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 $208.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,277$216$106 – $405
Children’s66$308$180 – $461
Critical access887$196$109 – $294
Ownership
For-profit485$289$120 – $946
Government598$180$95 – $287
Non-profit2,147$208$109 – $351
System affiliation
Part of a system2,663$216$112 – $383
Independent577$178$90 – $301

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$345
Median cash price$208
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

2,232 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $226 and the average of the middle 60% is $229; most fall between $119 and $365.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,232 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
$78$138$226$335$510

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($78 vs $510).

Of the 2,489 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,232 gave a usable cash price; 148 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

3,240 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 3,625 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,240
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here246
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 — excluded138
Hospitals that filed this code3,625

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 Wrist 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, “Wrist X-ray, 2 views (CPT 73100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73100-wrist-x-ray-2-views