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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of an arm joint without and with contrast

CPT 73223the billing code this page is about

Two sets of magnetic resonance images of one arm joint — one before contrast dye is given and one after.

Hospitals typically charge $2,563 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,113 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,578. Most fall between $1,225 and $4,206 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,113
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 3,113 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
$775$1,446$2,563$3,825$6,388

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($775 vs $6,388).

How the prices are spread

$518 – $685: 98 hospitals$518$685 – $907: 153 hospitals$907 – $1,200: 197 hospitals$907$1,200 – $1,587: 296 hospitals$1,587 – $2,100: 360 hospitals$1,587$2,100 – $2,779: 461 hospitals$2,779 – $3,678: 528 hospitals$2,779$3,678 – $4,867: 407 hospitals$4,867 – $6,440: 149 hospitals$4,867$6,440 – $8,521: 154 hospitals$6,440median $2,563price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,803 of 3,113 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$518$68598
$685$907153
$907$1,200197
$1,200$1,587296
$1,587$2,100360
$2,100$2,779461
$2,779$3,678528
$3,678$4,867407
$4,867$6,440149
$6,440$8,521154

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$2,563
Cash as a multiple of Medicare7.2×

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 $2,563.

Alaska: median $3,516 across 14 hospitalsAK$3,516Maine: median $1,685 across 24 hospitalsME$1,685Vermont: median $4,426 across 11 hospitalsVT$4,426New Hampshire: median $2,747 across 21 hospitalsNH$2,747Washington: median $2,446 across 62 hospitalsWA$2,446Idaho: median $2,263 across 21 hospitalsID$2,263Montana: median $2,906 across 16 hospitalsMT$2,906North Dakota: median $3,202 across 29 hospitalsND$3,202Minnesota: median $2,376 across 95 hospitalsMN$2,376Illinois: median $3,646 across 134 hospitalsIL$3,646Wisconsin: median $2,670 across 105 hospitalsWI$2,670Michigan: median $2,320 across 81 hospitalsMI$2,320New York: median $1,689 across 97 hospitalsNY$1,689Massachusetts: median $2,931 across 45 hospitalsMA$2,931Oregon: median $2,746 across 45 hospitalsOR$2,746Nevada: median $2,468 across 18 hospitalsNV$2,468Wyoming: median $2,168 across 12 hospitalsWY$2,168South Dakota: median $4,273 across 26 hospitalsSD$4,273Iowa: median $2,942 across 82 hospitalsIA$2,942Indiana: median $1,291 across 93 hospitalsIN$1,291Ohio: median $2,074 across 125 hospitalsOH$2,074Pennsylvania: median $2,604 across 116 hospitalsPA$2,604New Jersey: median $511 across 45 hospitalsNJ$511Connecticut: median $2,373 across 22 hospitalsCT$2,373Rhode Island: median $2,127 across 10 hospitalsRI$2,127California: median $4,027 across 185 hospitalsCA$4,027Utah: median $3,387 across 40 hospitalsUT$3,387Colorado: median $2,437 across 64 hospitalsCO$2,437Nebraska: median $3,552 across 79 hospitalsNE$3,552Missouri: median $2,550 across 76 hospitalsMO$2,550Kentucky: median $2,074 across 65 hospitalsKY$2,074West Virginia: median $2,092 across 39 hospitalsWV$2,092Virginia: median $3,586 across 67 hospitalsVA$3,586Maryland: median $1,145 across 36 hospitalsMD$1,145Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,206 across 47 hospitalsAZ$2,206New Mexico: median $2,316 across 30 hospitalsNM$2,316Kansas: median $1,634 across 80 hospitalsKS$1,634Arkansas: median $800 across 31 hospitalsAR$800Tennessee: median $1,071 across 78 hospitalsTN$1,071North Carolina: median $2,724 across 86 hospitalsNC$2,724South Carolina: median $2,939 across 52 hospitalsSC$2,939Oklahoma: median $1,496 across 59 hospitalsOK$1,496Louisiana: median $1,163 across 52 hospitalsLA$1,163Mississippi: median $1,444 across 49 hospitalsMS$1,444Alabama: median $1,853 across 37 hospitalsAL$1,853Georgia: median $2,265 across 98 hospitalsGA$2,265Hawaii: median $1,910 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,910Texas: median $2,965 across 226 hospitalsTX$2,965Florida: median $4,485 across 168 hospitalsFL$4,485
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,563. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL168$4,485+75%$1,941 – $10,241
Vermont VT11$4,426+73%$2,400 – $5,735
South Dakota SD26$4,273+67%$3,926 – $5,760
California CA185$4,027+57%$1,820 – $7,159
Illinois IL134$3,646+42%$1,915 – $4,810
Virginia VA67$3,586+40%$1,851 – $4,874
Nebraska NE79$3,552+39%$2,229 – $4,234
Alaska AK14$3,516+37%$2,075 – $5,813
Utah UT40$3,387+32%$2,360 – $3,985
North Dakota ND29$3,202+25%$2,605 – $3,680
Texas TX226$2,965+16%$1,456 – $6,146
Iowa IA82$2,942+15%$2,067 – $4,100
South Carolina SC52$2,939+15%$1,916 – $4,535
Massachusetts MA45$2,931+14%$1,580 – $4,164
Montana MT16$2,906+13%$1,964 – $3,455
New Hampshire NH21$2,747+7%$2,256 – $6,521
Oregon OR45$2,746+7%$1,872 – $3,766
North Carolina NC86$2,724+6%$1,967 – $4,580
Wisconsin WI105$2,670+4%$1,142 – $3,312
Pennsylvania PA116$2,604+2%$597 – $5,999
Missouri MO76$2,550−1%$1,479 – $3,791
Nevada NV18$2,468−4%$885 – $4,091
Washington WA62$2,446−5%$1,543 – $3,746
Colorado CO64$2,437−5%$1,608 – $3,109
Minnesota MN95$2,376−7%$1,060 – $3,389
Connecticut CT22$2,373−7%$1,479 – $3,462
Michigan MI81$2,320−10%$1,481 – $4,039
New Mexico NM30$2,316−10%$1,369 – $3,176
Georgia GA98$2,265−12%$1,080 – $3,650
Idaho ID21$2,263−12%$1,882 – $3,061
Arizona AZ47$2,206−14%$702 – $5,505
Wyoming WY12$2,168−15%$1,201 – $3,656
Rhode Island RI10$2,127−17%$567 – $3,100
West Virginia WV39$2,092−18%$1,352 – $3,253
Kentucky KY65$2,074−19%$1,219 – $3,763
Ohio OH125$2,074−19%$1,440 – $3,090
Hawaii HI14$1,910−25%$1,624 – $2,693
Alabama AL37$1,853−28%$1,326 – $3,136
New York NY97$1,689−34%$528 – $4,145
Maine ME24$1,685−34%$1,019 – $3,357
Kansas KS80$1,634−36%$779 – $2,732
Oklahoma OK59$1,496−42%$1,071 – $2,504
Mississippi MS49$1,444−44%$858 – $2,235
Indiana IN93$1,291−50%$816 – $3,040
Louisiana LA52$1,163−55%$790 – $2,342
Maryland MD36$1,145−55%$777 – $1,746
Tennessee TN78$1,071−58%$647 – $2,677
Arkansas AR31$800−69%$584 – $1,520
New Jersey NJ45$511−80%$404 – $2,473
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 $2,563.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,242$2,448$1,145 – $4,438
Children’s64$3,521$2,644 – $5,045
Critical access797$2,639$1,452 – $3,882
Ownership
For-profit464$3,144$1,306 – $9,873
Government555$2,265$1,103 – $3,675
Non-profit2,084$2,538$1,237 – $4,010
System affiliation
Part of a system2,557$2,629$1,256 – $4,324
Independent556$2,210$1,090 – $3,766

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,191
Median cash price$2,563
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

2,131 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,650 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,667; most fall between $1,355 and $4,164.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,131 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
$896$1,549$2,650$3,858$5,839

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($896 vs $5,839).

Of the 2,369 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,131 gave a usable cash price; 130 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

3,113 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 3,472 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,113
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here222
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 — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,472

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/O & W/Contr Matrl.

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 without and with contrast (CPT 73223) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73223-mri-of-an-arm-joint-without-and-with-contrast