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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of an arm joint with contrast

CPT 73222the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance images of one joint of the arm, such as the shoulder, elbow or wrist, taken after contrast dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $2,210 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,949 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,238. Most fall between $1,080 and $3,703 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,949
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 2,949 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
$792$1,274$2,210$3,327$5,190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($792 vs $5,190).

How the prices are spread

$622 – $799: 153 hospitals$622$799 – $1,026: 232 hospitals$1,026 – $1,317: 227 hospitals$1,026$1,317 – $1,692: 334 hospitals$1,692 – $2,172: 352 hospitals$1,692$2,172 – $2,789: 457 hospitals$2,789 – $3,582: 423 hospitals$2,789$3,582 – $4,600: 234 hospitals$4,600 – $5,906: 144 hospitals$4,600$5,906 – $7,584: 103 hospitals$5,906median $2,210price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,659 of 2,949 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$622$799153
$799$1,026232
$1,026$1,317227
$1,317$1,692334
$1,692$2,172352
$2,172$2,789457
$2,789$3,582423
$3,582$4,600234
$4,600$5,906144
$5,906$7,584103

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$2,210
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $2,210.

Alaska: median $2,264 across 12 hospitalsAK$2,264Maine: median $1,444 across 24 hospitalsME$1,444Vermont: median $3,935 across 11 hospitalsVT$3,935New Hampshire: median $2,169 across 18 hospitalsNH$2,169Washington: median $2,011 across 60 hospitalsWA$2,011Idaho: median $2,352 across 21 hospitalsID$2,352Montana: median $1,892 across 14 hospitalsMT$1,892North Dakota: median $2,860 across 16 hospitalsND$2,860Minnesota: median $2,066 across 88 hospitalsMN$2,066Illinois: median $3,180 across 130 hospitalsIL$3,180Wisconsin: median $2,210 across 104 hospitalsWI$2,210Michigan: median $2,211 across 78 hospitalsMI$2,211New York: median $1,649 across 96 hospitalsNY$1,649Massachusetts: median $2,370 across 42 hospitalsMA$2,370Oregon: median $2,099 across 43 hospitalsOR$2,099Nevada: median $2,055 across 18 hospitalsNV$2,055Wyoming: median $1,807 across 12 hospitalsWY$1,807South Dakota: median $3,838 across 16 hospitalsSD$3,838Iowa: median $2,231 across 73 hospitalsIA$2,231Indiana: median $1,400 across 92 hospitalsIN$1,400Ohio: median $2,096 across 125 hospitalsOH$2,096Pennsylvania: median $2,197 across 115 hospitalsPA$2,197New Jersey: median $1,054 across 45 hospitalsNJ$1,054Connecticut: median $2,222 across 20 hospitalsCT$2,222Rhode Island: median $1,497 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,497California: median $3,109 across 178 hospitalsCA$3,109Utah: median $2,827 across 40 hospitalsUT$2,827Colorado: median $2,034 across 63 hospitalsCO$2,034Nebraska: median $2,695 across 70 hospitalsNE$2,695Missouri: median $2,151 across 74 hospitalsMO$2,151Kentucky: median $1,758 across 60 hospitalsKY$1,758West Virginia: median $2,124 across 33 hospitalsWV$2,124Virginia: median $2,556 across 65 hospitalsVA$2,556Maryland: median $932 across 34 hospitalsMD$932Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,314 across 46 hospitalsAZ$1,314New Mexico: median $1,730 across 25 hospitalsNM$1,730Kansas: median $1,362 across 69 hospitalsKS$1,362Arkansas: median $880 across 24 hospitalsAR$880Tennessee: median $1,012 across 77 hospitalsTN$1,012North Carolina: median $2,330 across 86 hospitalsNC$2,330South Carolina: median $2,425 across 52 hospitalsSC$2,425Oklahoma: median $1,488 across 55 hospitalsOK$1,488Louisiana: median $970 across 49 hospitalsLA$970Mississippi: median $1,208 across 44 hospitalsMS$1,208Alabama: median $1,564 across 37 hospitalsAL$1,564Georgia: median $1,513 across 89 hospitalsGA$1,513Hawaii: median $2,204 across 14 hospitalsHI$2,204Texas: median $2,838 across 216 hospitalsTX$2,838Florida: median $4,202 across 160 hospitalsFL$4,202
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,210. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL160$4,202+90%$1,611 – $8,422
Vermont VT11$3,935+78%$2,931 – $4,276
South Dakota SD16$3,838+74%$3,525 – $4,901
Illinois IL130$3,180+44%$1,525 – $4,468
California CA178$3,109+41%$1,579 – $5,051
North Dakota ND16$2,860+29%$2,320 – $3,084
Texas TX216$2,838+28%$1,319 – $4,616
Utah UT40$2,827+28%$2,360 – $3,326
Nebraska NE70$2,695+22%$1,626 – $3,404
Virginia VA65$2,556+16%$1,623 – $4,016
South Carolina SC52$2,425+10%$1,489 – $3,696
Massachusetts MA42$2,370+7%$1,328 – $2,945
Idaho ID21$2,352+6%$1,871 – $5,145
North Carolina NC86$2,330+5%$1,942 – $4,073
Alaska AK12$2,264+2%$1,816 – $4,557
Iowa IA73$2,231+1%$1,635 – $3,539
Connecticut CT20$2,222+1%$1,282 – $2,861
Michigan MI78$2,2110%$1,230 – $3,688
Wisconsin WI104$2,2100%$1,028 – $3,157
Hawaii HI14$2,2040%$1,750 – $2,463
Pennsylvania PA115$2,197−1%$926 – $5,191
New Hampshire NH18$2,169−2%$1,648 – $5,704
Missouri MO74$2,151−3%$1,227 – $3,147
West Virginia WV33$2,124−4%$1,382 – $3,071
Oregon OR43$2,099−5%$1,451 – $2,807
Ohio OH125$2,096−5%$1,363 – $3,114
Minnesota MN88$2,066−7%$1,021 – $3,234
Nevada NV18$2,055−7%$1,166 – $3,790
Colorado CO63$2,034−8%$1,215 – $2,821
Washington WA60$2,011−9%$1,486 – $3,125
Montana MT14$1,892−14%$1,267 – $2,511
Wyoming WY12$1,807−18%$968 – $2,934
Kentucky KY60$1,758−20%$1,101 – $3,258
New Mexico NM25$1,730−22%$1,279 – $2,768
New York NY96$1,649−25%$935 – $3,888
Alabama AL37$1,564−29%$780 – $3,383
Georgia GA89$1,513−32%$978 – $3,252
Rhode Island RI10$1,497−32%$855 – $2,200
Oklahoma OK55$1,488−33%$941 – $2,272
Maine ME24$1,444−35%$802 – $2,482
Indiana IN92$1,400−37%$802 – $2,470
Kansas KS69$1,362−38%$738 – $2,488
Arizona AZ46$1,314−41%$603 – $5,114
Mississippi MS44$1,208−45%$793 – $1,609
New Jersey NJ45$1,054−52%$875 – $1,809
Tennessee TN77$1,012−54%$586 – $2,370
Louisiana LA49$970−56%$625 – $1,822
Maryland MD34$932−58%$513 – $1,435
Arkansas AR24$880−60%$584 – $2,200
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 $2,210.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,190$2,158$1,034 – $3,843
Children’s62$2,788$2,180 – $4,376
Critical access687$2,228$1,227 – $3,288
Ownership
For-profit438$2,858$1,279 – $8,282
Government517$1,980$991 – $3,011
Non-profit1,984$2,194$1,078 – $3,543
System affiliation
Part of a system2,421$2,250$1,127 – $3,828
Independent528$1,996$961 – $3,252

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,726
Median cash price$2,210
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

2,021 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,264 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,332; most fall between $1,172 and $3,706.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,021 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
$820$1,383$2,264$3,454$5,051

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($820 vs $5,051).

Of the 2,244 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,021 gave a usable cash price; 124 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

2,949 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,289 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,949
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here214
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 — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code3,289

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 Any Jt Upper Extremity W/Contrast Matrl|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 an arm joint with contrast (CPT 73222) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73222-mri-of-an-arm-joint-with-contrast