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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of the arm, not a joint, without and with contrast

CPT 73220the billing code this page is about

Two sets of magnetic resonance images of a non-joint part of the arm — one before contrast dye and one after.

Hospitals typically charge $2,408 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,123 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,481. Most fall between $1,183 and $4,088 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,123
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 3,123 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
$754$1,409$2,408$3,696$6,009

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($754 vs $6,009).

How the prices are spread

$500 – $663: 84 hospitals$500$663 – $880: 160 hospitals$880 – $1,168: 216 hospitals$880$1,168 – $1,550: 290 hospitals$1,550 – $2,057: 401 hospitals$1,550$2,057 – $2,730: 477 hospitals$2,730 – $3,622: 520 hospitals$2,730$3,622 – $4,806: 350 hospitals$4,806 – $6,378: 185 hospitals$4,806$6,378 – $8,463: 130 hospitals$6,378median $2,408price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,813 of 3,123 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$500$66384
$663$880160
$880$1,168216
$1,168$1,550290
$1,550$2,057401
$2,057$2,730477
$2,730$3,622520
$3,622$4,806350
$4,806$6,378185
$6,378$8,463130

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$2,408
Cash as a multiple of Medicare6.8×

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 $2,408.

Alaska: median $3,524 across 14 hospitalsAK$3,524Maine: median $1,685 across 24 hospitalsME$1,685Vermont: median $4,382 across 11 hospitalsVT$4,382New Hampshire: median $2,957 across 20 hospitalsNH$2,957Washington: median $2,526 across 61 hospitalsWA$2,526Idaho: median $2,263 across 21 hospitalsID$2,263Montana: median $2,446 across 16 hospitalsMT$2,446North Dakota: median $3,231 across 29 hospitalsND$3,231Minnesota: median $2,333 across 95 hospitalsMN$2,333Illinois: median $3,478 across 134 hospitalsIL$3,478Wisconsin: median $2,530 across 104 hospitalsWI$2,530Michigan: median $2,037 across 81 hospitalsMI$2,037New York: median $1,615 across 98 hospitalsNY$1,615Massachusetts: median $2,838 across 48 hospitalsMA$2,838Oregon: median $2,672 across 45 hospitalsOR$2,672Nevada: median $2,001 across 18 hospitalsNV$2,001Wyoming: median $2,368 across 12 hospitalsWY$2,368South Dakota: median $4,346 across 26 hospitalsSD$4,346Iowa: median $2,947 across 79 hospitalsIA$2,947Indiana: median $1,291 across 94 hospitalsIN$1,291Ohio: median $2,077 across 127 hospitalsOH$2,077Pennsylvania: median $2,563 across 115 hospitalsPA$2,563New Jersey: median $511 across 45 hospitalsNJ$511Connecticut: median $2,373 across 22 hospitalsCT$2,373Rhode Island: median $2,100 across 10 hospitalsRI$2,100California: median $3,862 across 188 hospitalsCA$3,862Utah: median $3,782 across 40 hospitalsUT$3,782Colorado: median $2,399 across 64 hospitalsCO$2,399Nebraska: median $3,273 across 80 hospitalsNE$3,273Missouri: median $1,943 across 76 hospitalsMO$1,943Kentucky: median $2,094 across 63 hospitalsKY$2,094West Virginia: median $2,075 across 38 hospitalsWV$2,075Virginia: median $2,491 across 69 hospitalsVA$2,491Maryland: median $1,235 across 36 hospitalsMD$1,235Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,726 across 47 hospitalsAZ$1,726New Mexico: median $2,328 across 29 hospitalsNM$2,328Kansas: median $1,617 across 79 hospitalsKS$1,617Arkansas: median $818 across 32 hospitalsAR$818Tennessee: median $1,041 across 78 hospitalsTN$1,041North Carolina: median $2,495 across 87 hospitalsNC$2,495South Carolina: median $2,998 across 52 hospitalsSC$2,998Oklahoma: median $1,449 across 61 hospitalsOK$1,449Louisiana: median $1,035 across 52 hospitalsLA$1,035Mississippi: median $1,369 across 49 hospitalsMS$1,369Alabama: median $1,832 across 39 hospitalsAL$1,832Georgia: median $1,760 across 99 hospitalsGA$1,760Hawaii: median $1,802 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,802Texas: median $3,265 across 227 hospitalsTX$3,265Florida: median $3,708 across 169 hospitalsFL$3,708
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,408. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT11$4,382+82%$2,931 – $6,094
South Dakota SD26$4,346+80%$3,607 – $5,322
California CA188$3,862+60%$1,822 – $6,467
Utah UT40$3,782+57%$2,360 – $4,450
Florida FL169$3,708+54%$1,719 – $10,076
Alaska AK14$3,524+46%$2,118 – $6,098
Illinois IL134$3,478+44%$1,825 – $5,152
Nebraska NE80$3,273+36%$2,229 – $3,922
Texas TX227$3,265+36%$1,680 – $6,325
North Dakota ND29$3,231+34%$2,644 – $3,710
South Carolina SC52$2,998+24%$2,250 – $4,197
New Hampshire NH20$2,957+23%$1,942 – $6,737
Iowa IA79$2,947+22%$2,050 – $4,039
Massachusetts MA48$2,838+18%$1,535 – $4,238
Oregon OR45$2,672+11%$2,005 – $3,282
Pennsylvania PA115$2,563+6%$570 – $5,716
Wisconsin WI104$2,530+5%$994 – $3,405
Washington WA61$2,526+5%$1,590 – $3,694
North Carolina NC87$2,495+4%$1,659 – $3,529
Virginia VA69$2,491+3%$1,382 – $4,680
Montana MT16$2,446+2%$1,751 – $3,236
Colorado CO64$2,3990%$1,513 – $3,344
Connecticut CT22$2,373−1%$1,309 – $3,738
Wyoming WY12$2,368−2%$926 – $3,770
Minnesota MN95$2,333−3%$1,163 – $3,620
New Mexico NM29$2,328−3%$1,350 – $3,088
Idaho ID21$2,263−6%$1,811 – $3,061
Rhode Island RI10$2,100−13%$902 – $2,127
Kentucky KY63$2,094−13%$1,267 – $3,556
Ohio OH127$2,077−14%$1,503 – $3,090
West Virginia WV38$2,075−14%$1,545 – $3,244
Michigan MI81$2,037−15%$1,435 – $4,039
Nevada NV18$2,001−17%$1,349 – $4,091
Missouri MO76$1,943−19%$1,306 – $3,216
Alabama AL39$1,832−24%$1,236 – $3,672
Hawaii HI14$1,802−25%$1,544 – $2,468
Georgia GA99$1,760−27%$997 – $3,679
Arizona AZ47$1,726−28%$500 – $5,490
Maine ME24$1,685−30%$811 – $3,347
Kansas KS79$1,617−33%$760 – $3,185
New York NY98$1,615−33%$447 – $3,762
Oklahoma OK61$1,449−40%$1,069 – $2,490
Mississippi MS49$1,369−43%$849 – $2,189
Indiana IN94$1,291−46%$816 – $3,031
Maryland MD36$1,235−49%$838 – $1,883
Tennessee TN78$1,041−57%$669 – $2,383
Louisiana LA52$1,035−57%$753 – $2,009
Arkansas AR32$818−66%$584 – $1,222
New Jersey NJ45$511−79%$404 – $2,455
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 $2,408.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,254$2,305$1,124 – $4,400
Children’s64$3,389$2,472 – $5,552
Critical access795$2,508$1,367 – $3,734
Ownership
For-profit470$3,144$1,321 – $9,533
Government554$2,153$1,098 – $3,423
Non-profit2,089$2,376$1,178 – $3,803
System affiliation
Part of a system2,566$2,500$1,233 – $4,230
Independent557$2,094$1,050 – $3,552

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,085
Median cash price$2,408
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

2,136 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,537 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,570; most fall between $1,336 and $4,084.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,136 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
$861$1,496$2,537$3,708$5,407

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($861 vs $5,407).

Of the 2,368 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,136 gave a usable cash price; 126 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 106 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,123 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,474 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,123
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here218
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code3,474

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 September 4, 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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Upper Extrem Other Than Jt W/O & W/Contras|PROFESSIONAL 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, “MRI of the arm, not a joint, without and with contrast (CPT 73220) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73220-mri-of-the-arm-not-a-joint-without-and-with-contrast