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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the hip joint with contrast dye

CPT 73525the billing code this page is about

Covers the radiology supervision and interpretation for X-ray images of a hip joint taken after contrast dye is injected into the joint.

Hospitals typically charge $710 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,424 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $744. Most fall between $390 and $1,331 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,424
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 2,424 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
$251$435$710$1,141$1,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($251 vs $1,934).

How the prices are spread

$182 – $237: 95 hospitals$182$237 – $309: 110 hospitals$309 – $403: 196 hospitals$309$403 – $526: 318 hospitals$526 – $686: 345 hospitals$526$686 – $896: 348 hospitals$896 – $1,168: 307 hospitals$896$1,168 – $1,524: 235 hospitals$1,524 – $1,989: 129 hospitals$1,524$1,989 – $2,594: 103 hospitals$1,989median $710price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,186 of 2,424 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$182$23795
$237$309110
$309$403196
$403$526318
$526$686345
$686$896348
$896$1,168307
$1,168$1,524235
$1,524$1,989129
$1,989$2,594103

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$710
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.99×

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 $710.

Alaska: median $947 across 11 hospitalsAK$947Maine: median $344 across 19 hospitalsME$344Vermont: median $1,255 across 10 hospitalsVT$1,255New Hampshire: median $613 across 15 hospitalsNH$613Washington: median $876 across 49 hospitalsWA$876Idaho: median $789 across 18 hospitalsID$789Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $362 across 50 hospitalsMN$362Illinois: median $918 across 86 hospitalsIL$918Wisconsin: median $751 across 87 hospitalsWI$751Michigan: median $470 across 56 hospitalsMI$470New York: median $680 across 86 hospitalsNY$680Massachusetts: median $1,115 across 40 hospitalsMA$1,115Oregon: median $728 across 35 hospitalsOR$728Nevada: median $870 across 15 hospitalsNV$870Wyoming: median $664 across 11 hospitalsWY$664South Dakota: median $841 across 13 hospitalsSD$841Iowa: median $630 across 52 hospitalsIA$630Indiana: median $724 across 75 hospitalsIN$724Ohio: median $796 across 130 hospitalsOH$796Pennsylvania: median $673 across 92 hospitalsPA$673New Jersey: median $477 across 44 hospitalsNJ$477Connecticut: median $860 across 13 hospitalsCT$860Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,394 across 171 hospitalsCA$1,394Utah: median $718 across 40 hospitalsUT$718Colorado: median $651 across 50 hospitalsCO$651Nebraska: median $660 across 43 hospitalsNE$660Missouri: median $727 across 55 hospitalsMO$727Kentucky: median $650 across 37 hospitalsKY$650West Virginia: median $875 across 16 hospitalsWV$875Virginia: median $798 across 61 hospitalsVA$798Maryland: median $101 across 25 hospitalsMD$101Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $436 across 37 hospitalsAZ$436New Mexico: median $673 across 17 hospitalsNM$673Kansas: median $544 across 40 hospitalsKS$544Arkansas: median $197 across 22 hospitalsAR$197Tennessee: median $271 across 63 hospitalsTN$271North Carolina: median $589 across 64 hospitalsNC$589South Carolina: median $870 across 50 hospitalsSC$870Oklahoma: median $404 across 44 hospitalsOK$404Louisiana: median $435 across 44 hospitalsLA$435Mississippi: median $392 across 34 hospitalsMS$392Alabama: median $554 across 35 hospitalsAL$554Georgia: median $498 across 85 hospitalsGA$498Hawaii: median $988 across 16 hospitalsHI$988Texas: median $667 across 189 hospitalsTX$667Florida: median $1,222 across 149 hospitalsFL$1,222
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $710. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA171$1,394+96%$552 – $1,968
Vermont VT10$1,255+77%$159 – $1,779
Florida FL149$1,222+72%$677 – $2,895
Massachusetts MA40$1,115+57%$883 – $1,347
Hawaii HI16$988+39%$545 – $1,344
Alaska AK11$947+33%$735 – $1,091
Illinois IL86$918+29%$503 – $1,408
Washington WA49$876+23%$720 – $1,208
West Virginia WV16$875+23%$550 – $1,208
South Carolina SC50$870+22%$563 – $1,212
Nevada NV15$870+22%$379 – $2,220
Connecticut CT13$860+21%$595 – $1,197
South Dakota SD13$841+18%$651 – $1,341
Virginia VA61$798+12%$550 – $1,489
Ohio OH130$796+12%$625 – $1,517
Idaho ID18$789+11%$536 – $1,220
Wisconsin WI87$751+6%$238 – $967
Oregon OR35$728+3%$306 – $1,089
Missouri MO55$727+2%$496 – $1,214
Indiana IN75$724+2%$410 – $1,007
Utah UT40$718+1%$579 – $818
New York NY86$680−4%$401 – $1,121
New Mexico NM17$673−5%$406 – $1,192
Pennsylvania PA92$673−5%$402 – $1,702
Texas TX189$667−6%$468 – $1,512
Wyoming WY11$664−6%$455 – $826
Nebraska NE43$660−7%$371 – $927
Colorado CO50$651−8%$486 – $1,351
Kentucky KY37$650−9%$412 – $1,051
Iowa IA52$630−11%$351 – $896
New Hampshire NH15$613−14%$454 – $1,108
North Carolina NC64$589−17%$384 – $679
Alabama AL35$554−22%$309 – $917
Kansas KS40$544−23%$355 – $1,042
Georgia GA85$498−30%$249 – $1,000
New Jersey NJ44$477−33%$395 – $1,580
Michigan MI56$470−34%$311 – $639
Arizona AZ37$436−39%$305 – $2,634
Louisiana LA44$435−39%$192 – $850
Oklahoma OK44$404−43%$319 – $673
Mississippi MS34$392−45%$179 – $538
Minnesota MN50$362−49%$277 – $655
Maine ME19$344−52%$174 – $1,044
Tennessee TN63$271−62%$183 – $737
Arkansas AR22$197−72%$189 – $574
Maryland MD25$101−86%$74 – $688
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not 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 $710.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,955$718$395 – $1,394
Children’s56$1,039$596 – $1,745
Critical access406$657$346 – $1,015
Ownership
For-profit399$934$446 – $2,478
Government369$601$323 – $1,015
Non-profit1,649$704$390 – $1,234
System affiliation
Part of a system2,033$714$395 – $1,394
Independent391$682$371 – $1,152

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,248
Median cash price$710
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,719 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $718 and the average of the middle 60% is $755; most fall between $397 and $1,275.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,719 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
$246$452$718$1,119$1,664

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($246 vs $1,664).

Of the 1,912 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,719 gave a usable cash price; 101 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,424 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,718 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,424
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here183
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded109
Hospitals that filed this code2,718

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 Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Hip Arthrogram Lt.

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 the hip joint with contrast dye (CPT 73525) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73525-x-ray-of-the-hip-joint-with-contrast-dye