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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of both hips, including pelvis, 2 views

CPT 73521the billing code this page is about

Two-view X-ray imaging of both hip joints, including the pelvis when it is imaged in the same study.

Hospitals typically charge $307 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,137 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $319. Most fall between $152 and $543 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,137
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 3,137 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
$109$177$307$492$834

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $834).

How the prices are spread

$74 – $98: 82 hospitals$74$98 – $129: 234 hospitals$129 – $170: 274 hospitals$129$170 – $224: 375 hospitals$224 – $296: 404 hospitals$224$296 – $391: 448 hospitals$391 – $516: 465 hospitals$391$516 – $682: 270 hospitals$682 – $900: 162 hospitals$682$900 – $1,188: 117 hospitals$900median $307price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,831 of 3,137 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$74$9882
$98$129234
$129$170274
$170$224375
$224$296404
$296$391448
$391$516465
$516$682270
$682$900162
$900$1,188117

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$307
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $307.

Alaska: median $417 across 17 hospitalsAK$417Maine: median $221 across 24 hospitalsME$221Vermont: median $664 across 10 hospitalsVT$664New Hampshire: median $294 across 19 hospitalsNH$294Washington: median $268 across 68 hospitalsWA$268Idaho: median $429 across 21 hospitalsID$429Montana: median $265 across 18 hospitalsMT$265North Dakota: median $202 across 31 hospitalsND$202Minnesota: median $286 across 90 hospitalsMN$286Illinois: median $400 across 121 hospitalsIL$400Wisconsin: median $272 across 100 hospitalsWI$272Michigan: median $237 across 74 hospitalsMI$237New York: median $224 across 107 hospitalsNY$224Massachusetts: median $364 across 48 hospitalsMA$364Oregon: median $324 across 44 hospitalsOR$324Nevada: median $505 across 19 hospitalsNV$505Wyoming: median $207 across 12 hospitalsWY$207South Dakota: median $402 across 21 hospitalsSD$402Iowa: median $276 across 81 hospitalsIA$276Indiana: median $275 across 84 hospitalsIN$275Ohio: median $343 across 134 hospitalsOH$343Pennsylvania: median $274 across 113 hospitalsPA$274New Jersey: median $129 across 57 hospitalsNJ$129Connecticut: median $386 across 22 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $526 across 207 hospitalsCA$526Utah: median $834 across 42 hospitalsUT$834Colorado: median $377 across 63 hospitalsCO$377Nebraska: median $432 across 75 hospitalsNE$432Missouri: median $279 across 76 hospitalsMO$279Kentucky: median $427 across 64 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $217 across 40 hospitalsWV$217Virginia: median $275 across 68 hospitalsVA$275Maryland: median $257 across 39 hospitalsMD$257Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $119 across 52 hospitalsAZ$119New Mexico: median $300 across 27 hospitalsNM$300Kansas: median $291 across 79 hospitalsKS$291Arkansas: median $103 across 35 hospitalsAR$103Tennessee: median $189 across 72 hospitalsTN$189North Carolina: median $279 across 86 hospitalsNC$279South Carolina: median $456 across 53 hospitalsSC$456Oklahoma: median $242 across 67 hospitalsOK$242Louisiana: median $160 across 49 hospitalsLA$160Mississippi: median $145 across 47 hospitalsMS$145Alabama: median $180 across 40 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $229 across 100 hospitalsGA$229Hawaii: median $356 across 19 hospitalsHI$356Texas: median $488 across 220 hospitalsTX$488Florida: median $673 across 167 hospitalsFL$673
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $307. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT42$834+172%$374 – $834
Florida FL167$673+119%$309 – $2,047
Vermont VT10$664+116%$129 – $943
California CA207$526+71%$240 – $904
Nevada NV19$505+64%$245 – $704
Texas TX220$488+59%$218 – $903
South Carolina SC53$456+48%$323 – $595
Nebraska NE75$432+41%$191 – $546
Idaho ID21$429+40%$202 – $445
Kentucky KY64$427+39%$172 – $647
Alaska AK17$417+36%$304 – $685
South Dakota SD21$402+31%$320 – $537
Illinois IL121$400+30%$177 – $694
Connecticut CT22$386+26%$239 – $459
Colorado CO63$377+23%$224 – $828
Massachusetts MA48$364+19%$275 – $572
Hawaii HI19$356+16%$248 – $460
Ohio OH134$343+12%$215 – $477
Oregon OR44$324+5%$191 – $485
New Mexico NM27$300−2%$173 – $455
New Hampshire NH19$294−4%$157 – $592
Kansas KS79$291−5%$154 – $454
Minnesota MN90$286−7%$121 – $421
Missouri MO76$279−9%$197 – $413
North Carolina NC86$279−9%$192 – $459
Iowa IA81$276−10%$162 – $350
Virginia VA68$275−10%$160 – $646
Indiana IN84$275−10%$189 – $385
Pennsylvania PA113$274−11%$150 – $554
Wisconsin WI100$272−11%$127 – $433
Washington WA68$268−13%$184 – $421
Montana MT18$265−14%$117 – $361
Maryland MD39$257−16%$191 – $337
Oklahoma OK67$242−21%$142 – $400
Michigan MI74$237−23%$144 – $385
Georgia GA100$229−25%$118 – $388
New York NY107$224−27%$120 – $477
Maine ME24$221−28%$117 – $474
West Virginia WV40$217−29%$158 – $404
Wyoming WY12$207−33%$107 – $363
North Dakota ND31$202−34%$131 – $295
Tennessee TN72$189−38%$96 – $423
Alabama AL40$180−41%$138 – $542
Louisiana LA49$160−48%$82 – $265
Mississippi MS47$145−53%$101 – $198
New Jersey NJ57$129−58%$108 – $298
Arizona AZ52$119−61%$89 – $489
Arkansas AR35$103−66%$55 – $239
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $307.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,262$316$147 – $591
Children’s65$324$186 – $633
Critical access800$288$155 – $465
Ownership
For-profit453$461$177 – $1,312
Government542$272$145 – $459
Non-profit2,132$296$149 – $510
System affiliation
Part of a system2,591$318$158 – $569
Independent546$257$133 – $445

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$506
Median cash price$307
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

2,178 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $329 and the average of the middle 60% is $339; most fall between $171 and $543.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,178 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
$117$200$329$501$795

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $795).

Of the 2,429 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,178 gave a usable cash price; 147 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,137 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 3,496 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,137
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here242
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,496

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 Hips Bilateral With Pelvis 2 Views|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, “X-ray of both hips, including pelvis, 2 views (CPT 73521) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73521-x-ray-of-both-hips-including-pelvis-2-views