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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Hand X-ray, 2 views

CPT 73120the billing code this page is about

Two X-ray images of one hand taken from different angles.

Hospitals typically charge $216 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,217 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $226. Most fall between $120 and $390 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,217
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 3,217 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
$80$133$216$345$557

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($80 vs $557).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $76: 141 hospitals$58$76 – $100: 170 hospitals$100 – $132: 314 hospitals$100$132 – $173: 457 hospitals$173 – $228: 476 hospitals$173$228 – $300: 485 hospitals$300 – $394: 384 hospitals$300$394 – $517: 253 hospitals$517 – $680: 128 hospitals$517$680 – $894: 89 hospitals$680median $216price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,897 of 3,217 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$76141
$76$100170
$100$132314
$132$173457
$173$228476
$228$300485
$300$394384
$394$517253
$517$680128
$680$89489

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$216
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.0×

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 $216.

Alaska: median $312 across 17 hospitalsAK$312Maine: median $169 across 25 hospitalsME$169Vermont: median $464 across 12 hospitalsVT$464New Hampshire: median $216 across 20 hospitalsNH$216Washington: median $226 across 63 hospitalsWA$226Idaho: median $220 across 22 hospitalsID$220Montana: median $173 across 19 hospitalsMT$173North Dakota: median $149 across 27 hospitalsND$149Minnesota: median $174 across 96 hospitalsMN$174Illinois: median $278 across 125 hospitalsIL$278Wisconsin: median $181 across 108 hospitalsWI$181Michigan: median $146 across 83 hospitalsMI$146New York: median $187 across 98 hospitalsNY$187Massachusetts: median $321 across 45 hospitalsMA$321Oregon: median $239 across 45 hospitalsOR$239Nevada: median $259 across 21 hospitalsNV$259Wyoming: median $161 across 14 hospitalsWY$161South Dakota: median $291 across 42 hospitalsSD$291Iowa: median $164 across 86 hospitalsIA$164Indiana: median $183 across 92 hospitalsIN$183Ohio: median $230 across 140 hospitalsOH$230Pennsylvania: median $233 across 116 hospitalsPA$233New Jersey: median $137 across 45 hospitalsNJ$137Connecticut: median $253 across 22 hospitalsCT$253Rhode Island: median $261 across 10 hospitalsRI$261California: median $340 across 189 hospitalsCA$340Utah: median $245 across 39 hospitalsUT$245Colorado: median $239 across 64 hospitalsCO$239Nebraska: median $250 across 80 hospitalsNE$250Missouri: median $174 across 74 hospitalsMO$174Kentucky: median $161 across 66 hospitalsKY$161West Virginia: median $193 across 43 hospitalsWV$193Virginia: median $244 across 71 hospitalsVA$244Maryland: median $159 across 40 hospitalsMD$159Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $110 across 51 hospitalsAZ$110New Mexico: median $200 across 29 hospitalsNM$200Kansas: median $178 across 87 hospitalsKS$178Arkansas: median $80 across 36 hospitalsAR$80Tennessee: median $100 across 76 hospitalsTN$100North Carolina: median $199 across 92 hospitalsNC$199South Carolina: median $263 across 53 hospitalsSC$263Oklahoma: median $185 across 69 hospitalsOK$185Louisiana: median $109 across 49 hospitalsLA$109Mississippi: median $104 across 49 hospitalsMS$104Alabama: median $141 across 42 hospitalsAL$141Georgia: median $206 across 105 hospitalsGA$206Hawaii: median $277 across 19 hospitalsHI$277Texas: median $318 across 234 hospitalsTX$318Florida: median $518 across 161 hospitalsFL$518
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $216. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL161$518+139%$235 – $1,263
Vermont VT12$464+114%$299 – $664
California CA189$340+57%$190 – $652
Massachusetts MA45$321+48%$171 – $511
Texas TX234$318+47%$164 – $582
Alaska AK17$312+44%$103 – $622
South Dakota SD42$291+35%$227 – $380
Illinois IL125$278+28%$123 – $492
Hawaii HI19$277+28%$221 – $317
South Carolina SC53$263+22%$129 – $442
Rhode Island RI10$261+21%$149 – $286
Nevada NV21$259+20%$113 – $534
Connecticut CT22$253+17%$215 – $348
Nebraska NE80$250+16%$165 – $305
Utah UT39$245+13%$220 – $381
Virginia VA71$244+13%$158 – $481
Colorado CO64$239+10%$161 – $348
Oregon OR45$239+10%$85 – $324
Pennsylvania PA116$233+8%$124 – $457
Ohio OH140$230+6%$160 – $427
Washington WA63$226+4%$121 – $384
Idaho ID22$220+2%$135 – $441
New Hampshire NH20$2160%$144 – $362
Georgia GA105$206−5%$124 – $388
New Mexico NM29$200−8%$157 – $296
North Carolina NC92$199−8%$122 – $274
West Virginia WV43$193−11%$113 – $303
New York NY98$187−14%$104 – $375
Oklahoma OK69$185−14%$120 – $290
Indiana IN92$183−15%$126 – $283
Wisconsin WI108$181−17%$81 – $310
Kansas KS87$178−18%$112 – $293
Minnesota MN96$174−20%$104 – $236
Missouri MO74$174−20%$103 – $313
Montana MT19$173−20%$121 – $282
Maine ME25$169−22%$90 – $229
Iowa IA86$164−24%$112 – $251
Wyoming WY14$161−26%$69 – $324
Kentucky KY66$161−26%$122 – $428
Maryland MD40$159−26%$107 – $205
North Dakota ND27$149−31%$117 – $194
Michigan MI83$146−33%$96 – $267
Alabama AL42$141−35%$93 – $268
New Jersey NJ45$137−37%$117 – $290
Arizona AZ51$110−49%$89 – $265
Louisiana LA49$109−50%$64 – $200
Mississippi MS49$104−52%$48 – $190
Tennessee TN76$100−54%$59 – $191
Arkansas AR36$80−63%$61 – $160
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 $216.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,269$225$120 – $429
Children’s66$307$180 – $421
Critical access872$198$111 – $310
Ownership
For-profit481$292$133 – $930
Government588$185$113 – $293
Non-profit2,138$219$118 – $371
System affiliation
Part of a system2,647$221$122 – $405
Independent570$182$98 – $324

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$358
Median cash price$216
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

2,221 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $233 and the average of the middle 60% is $238; most fall between $123 and $390.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,221 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$143$233$350$487

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $487).

Of the 2,473 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,221 gave a usable cash price; 144 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,217 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,595 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,217
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here239
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 code3,595

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 Hand 2 Views.

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, “Hand X-ray, 2 views (CPT 73120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73120-hand-x-ray-2-views