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Procedure price report · Other CT scan

CT scan of the arm without and with contrast

CPT 73202the billing code this page is about

Two sets of CT images of the arm, forearm, wrist or hand — one before contrast dye is given and one after.

Hospitals typically charge $1,620 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,885 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,671. Most fall between $749 and $3,004 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,885
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 2,885 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
$441$903$1,620$2,591$4,239

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($441 vs $4,239).

How the prices are spread

$259 – $359: 85 hospitals$259$359 – $499: 116 hospitals$499 – $694: 167 hospitals$499$694 – $964: 272 hospitals$964 – $1,339: 426 hospitals$964$1,339 – $1,861: 489 hospitals$1,861 – $2,585: 462 hospitals$1,861$2,585 – $3,592: 360 hospitals$3,592 – $4,991: 135 hospitals$3,592$4,991 – $6,934: 87 hospitals$4,991median $1,620price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,599 of 2,885 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$259$35985
$359$499116
$499$694167
$694$964272
$964$1,339426
$1,339$1,861489
$1,861$2,585462
$2,585$3,592360
$3,592$4,991135
$4,991$6,93487

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$179
Median cash price$1,620
Cash as a multiple of Medicare9.0×

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 $1,620.

Alaska: median $2,231 across 14 hospitalsAK$2,231Maine: median $738 across 22 hospitalsME$738Vermont: median $2,160 across 10 hospitalsVT$2,160New Hampshire: median $1,625 across 14 hospitalsNH$1,625Washington: median $1,579 across 53 hospitalsWA$1,579Idaho: median $1,500 across 17 hospitalsID$1,500Montana: median $1,840 across 17 hospitalsMT$1,840North Dakota: median $1,886 across 22 hospitalsND$1,886Minnesota: median $1,445 across 73 hospitalsMN$1,445Illinois: median $2,417 across 119 hospitalsIL$2,417Wisconsin: median $1,734 across 93 hospitalsWI$1,734Michigan: median $1,380 across 80 hospitalsMI$1,380New York: median $893 across 90 hospitalsNY$893Massachusetts: median $1,416 across 38 hospitalsMA$1,416Oregon: median $1,290 across 31 hospitalsOR$1,290Nevada: median $2,219 across 20 hospitalsNV$2,219Wyoming: median $2,079 across 13 hospitalsWY$2,079South Dakota: median $3,056 across 21 hospitalsSD$3,056Iowa: median $1,682 across 60 hospitalsIA$1,682Indiana: median $989 across 79 hospitalsIN$989Ohio: median $1,265 across 127 hospitalsOH$1,265Pennsylvania: median $1,424 across 107 hospitalsPA$1,424New Jersey: median $244 across 44 hospitalsNJ$244Connecticut: median $1,439 across 17 hospitalsCT$1,439Rhode Island: median $863 across 10 hospitalsRI$863California: median $3,224 across 172 hospitalsCA$3,224Utah: median $2,017 across 37 hospitalsUT$2,017Colorado: median $1,746 across 61 hospitalsCO$1,746Nebraska: median $2,377 across 67 hospitalsNE$2,377Missouri: median $1,312 across 72 hospitalsMO$1,312Kentucky: median $1,295 across 55 hospitalsKY$1,295West Virginia: median $1,362 across 37 hospitalsWV$1,362Virginia: median $1,362 across 65 hospitalsVA$1,362Maryland: median $287 across 34 hospitalsMD$287Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,403 across 49 hospitalsAZ$1,403New Mexico: median $1,928 across 23 hospitalsNM$1,928Kansas: median $1,100 across 76 hospitalsKS$1,100Arkansas: median $676 across 30 hospitalsAR$676Tennessee: median $810 across 71 hospitalsTN$810North Carolina: median $2,057 across 85 hospitalsNC$2,057South Carolina: median $2,410 across 51 hospitalsSC$2,410Oklahoma: median $1,243 across 63 hospitalsOK$1,243Louisiana: median $698 across 54 hospitalsLA$698Mississippi: median $868 across 43 hospitalsMS$868Alabama: median $1,207 across 39 hospitalsAL$1,207Georgia: median $1,064 across 96 hospitalsGA$1,064Hawaii: median $1,541 across 17 hospitalsHI$1,541Texas: median $1,950 across 231 hospitalsTX$1,950Florida: median $2,912 across 160 hospitalsFL$2,912
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,620. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA172$3,224+99%$1,400 – $5,133
South Dakota SD21$3,056+89%$2,586 – $3,346
Florida FL160$2,912+80%$1,377 – $10,741
Illinois IL119$2,417+49%$1,168 – $3,768
South Carolina SC51$2,410+49%$1,190 – $2,630
Nebraska NE67$2,377+47%$1,776 – $3,127
Alaska AK14$2,231+38%$551 – $4,392
Nevada NV20$2,219+37%$613 – $3,138
Vermont VT10$2,160+33%$1,124 – $3,221
Wyoming WY13$2,079+28%$693 – $2,755
North Carolina NC85$2,057+27%$1,291 – $2,606
Utah UT37$2,017+25%$1,717 – $2,233
Texas TX231$1,950+20%$1,199 – $3,918
New Mexico NM23$1,928+19%$1,539 – $2,146
North Dakota ND22$1,886+16%$1,662 – $2,314
Montana MT17$1,840+14%$1,189 – $2,131
Colorado CO61$1,746+8%$1,158 – $3,055
Wisconsin WI93$1,734+7%$852 – $2,305
Iowa IA60$1,682+4%$1,093 – $2,214
New Hampshire NH14$1,6250%$1,091 – $3,411
Washington WA53$1,579−3%$1,126 – $2,267
Hawaii HI17$1,541−5%$1,336 – $1,859
Idaho ID17$1,500−7%$1,096 – $2,017
Minnesota MN73$1,445−11%$477 – $2,281
Connecticut CT17$1,439−11%$781 – $2,479
Pennsylvania PA107$1,424−12%$572 – $3,409
Massachusetts MA38$1,416−13%$740 – $2,458
Arizona AZ49$1,403−13%$426 – $4,418
Michigan MI80$1,380−15%$814 – $2,287
Virginia VA65$1,362−16%$920 – $3,086
West Virginia WV37$1,362−16%$726 – $2,276
Missouri MO72$1,312−19%$1,033 – $2,368
Kentucky KY55$1,295−20%$804 – $2,686
Oregon OR31$1,290−20%$1,160 – $2,550
Ohio OH127$1,265−22%$934 – $2,014
Oklahoma OK63$1,243−23%$738 – $1,846
Alabama AL39$1,207−25%$567 – $2,288
Kansas KS76$1,100−32%$730 – $2,265
Georgia GA96$1,064−34%$702 – $2,113
Indiana IN79$989−39%$498 – $1,893
New York NY90$893−45%$219 – $2,756
Mississippi MS43$868−46%$657 – $1,541
Rhode Island RI10$863−47%$404 – $2,096
Tennessee TN71$810−50%$493 – $1,661
Maine ME22$738−54%$579 – $1,929
Louisiana LA54$698−57%$442 – $1,578
Arkansas AR30$676−58%$386 – $1,019
Maryland MD34$287−82%$209 – $402
New Jersey NJ44$244−85%$203 – $1,683
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 $1,620.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,105$1,595$710 – $3,159
Children’s58$2,088$1,448 – $3,763
Critical access713$1,620$852 – $2,505
Ownership
For-profit446$2,274$921 – $7,517
Government512$1,462$710 – $2,380
Non-profit1,918$1,597$738 – $2,764
System affiliation
Part of a system2,378$1,653$795 – $3,055
Independent507$1,386$697 – $2,583

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,689
Median cash price$1,620
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

1,958 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,708 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,741; most fall between $854 and $2,969.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,958 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
$504$1,004$1,708$2,586$3,590

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($504 vs $3,590).

Of the 2,169 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,958 gave a usable cash price; 112 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 99 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,885 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (73%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,216 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,885
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here213
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 — excluded117
Hospitals that filed this code3,216

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 CT scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CT Upper Extremity W/O & W/Contrast Material.

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, “CT scan of the arm without and with contrast (CPT 73202) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73202-ct-scan-of-the-arm-without-and-with-contrast