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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the thigh bone, 1 view

CPT 73551the billing code this page is about

A single X-ray view of the femur, the long bone of the thigh.

Hospitals typically charge $187 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,633 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $195. Most fall between $100 and $351 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,633
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,633 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
$70$111$187$300$495

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($70 vs $495).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $69: 127 hospitals$54$69 – $90: 158 hospitals$90 – $117: 312 hospitals$90$117 – $151: 310 hospitals$151 – $196: 359 hospitals$151$196 – $253: 368 hospitals$253 – $328: 288 hospitals$253$328 – $425: 222 hospitals$425 – $551: 142 hospitals$425$551 – $714: 94 hospitals$551median $187price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,380 of 2,633 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$69127
$69$90158
$90$117312
$117$151310
$151$196359
$196$253368
$253$328288
$328$425222
$425$551142
$551$71494

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$187
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $187.

Alaska: median $255 across 11 hospitalsAK$255Maine: median $135 across 22 hospitalsME$135Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $186 across 12 hospitalsNH$186Washington: median $185 across 46 hospitalsWA$185Idaho: median $251 across 18 hospitalsID$251Montana: median $99 across 14 hospitalsMT$99North Dakota: median $144 across 27 hospitalsND$144Minnesota: median $146 across 72 hospitalsMN$146Illinois: median $223 across 106 hospitalsIL$223Wisconsin: median $172 across 96 hospitalsWI$172Michigan: median $142 across 67 hospitalsMI$142New York: median $134 across 85 hospitalsNY$134Massachusetts: median $265 across 38 hospitalsMA$265Oregon: median $203 across 43 hospitalsOR$203Nevada: median $466 across 16 hospitalsNV$466Wyoming: median $141 across 11 hospitalsWY$141South Dakota: median $277 across 24 hospitalsSD$277Iowa: median $162 across 62 hospitalsIA$162Indiana: median $125 across 78 hospitalsIN$125Ohio: median $216 across 115 hospitalsOH$216Pennsylvania: median $198 across 109 hospitalsPA$198New Jersey: median $113 across 44 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $217 across 19 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $123 across 10 hospitalsRI$123California: median $324 across 159 hospitalsCA$324Utah: median $246 across 32 hospitalsUT$246Colorado: median $180 across 57 hospitalsCO$180Nebraska: median $256 across 63 hospitalsNE$256Missouri: median $137 across 64 hospitalsMO$137Kentucky: median $161 across 51 hospitalsKY$161West Virginia: median $168 across 34 hospitalsWV$168Virginia: median $211 across 67 hospitalsVA$211Maryland: median $161 across 35 hospitalsMD$161Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $84 across 46 hospitalsAZ$84New Mexico: median $145 across 10 hospitalsNM$145Kansas: median $157 across 62 hospitalsKS$157Arkansas: median $112 across 22 hospitalsAR$112Tennessee: median $96 across 69 hospitalsTN$96North Carolina: median $161 across 78 hospitalsNC$161South Carolina: median $193 across 39 hospitalsSC$193Oklahoma: median $146 across 58 hospitalsOK$146Louisiana: median $89 across 34 hospitalsLA$89Mississippi: median $88 across 42 hospitalsMS$88Alabama: median $141 across 30 hospitalsAL$141Georgia: median $219 across 73 hospitalsGA$219Hawaii: median $231 across 16 hospitalsHI$231Texas: median $251 across 189 hospitalsTX$251Florida: median $446 across 145 hospitalsFL$446
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $187. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nevada NV16$466+149%$126 – $624
Florida FL145$446+138%$190 – $1,035
California CA159$324+73%$162 – $679
South Dakota SD24$277+48%$175 – $377
Massachusetts MA38$265+41%$154 – $400
Nebraska NE63$256+37%$108 – $338
Alaska AK11$255+36%$210 – $739
Idaho ID18$251+34%$142 – $365
Texas TX189$251+34%$130 – $495
Utah UT32$246+31%$188 – $246
Hawaii HI16$231+24%$192 – $259
Illinois IL106$223+19%$101 – $426
Georgia GA73$219+17%$86 – $283
Connecticut CT19$217+16%$145 – $329
Ohio OH115$216+16%$135 – $388
Virginia VA67$211+13%$110 – $519
Oregon OR43$203+9%$125 – $295
Pennsylvania PA109$198+6%$105 – $377
South Carolina SC39$193+3%$122 – $421
New Hampshire NH12$186−1%$104 – $527
Washington WA46$185−1%$92 – $299
Colorado CO57$180−4%$93 – $259
Wisconsin WI96$172−8%$68 – $245
West Virginia WV34$168−10%$109 – $259
Iowa IA62$162−14%$108 – $222
Kentucky KY51$161−14%$109 – $308
North Carolina NC78$161−14%$103 – $196
Maryland MD35$161−14%$120 – $211
Kansas KS62$157−16%$108 – $235
Oklahoma OK58$146−22%$95 – $251
Minnesota MN72$146−22%$73 – $244
New Mexico NM10$145−22%$65 – $202
North Dakota ND27$144−23%$108 – $226
Michigan MI67$142−24%$82 – $204
Wyoming WY11$141−25%$60 – $334
Alabama AL30$141−25%$78 – $384
Missouri MO64$137−27%$101 – $236
Maine ME22$135−28%$72 – $255
New York NY85$134−28%$98 – $252
Indiana IN78$125−33%$86 – $214
Rhode Island RI10$123−34%$94 – $209
New Jersey NJ44$113−40%$98 – $255
Arkansas AR22$112−40%$46 – $194
Montana MT14$99−47%$79 – $178
Tennessee TN69$96−49%$64 – $279
Louisiana LA34$89−52%$51 – $162
Mississippi MS42$88−53%$57 – $122
Arizona AZ46$84−55%$68 – $182
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $187.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,941$190$98 – $377
Children’s64$214$128 – $378
Critical access619$176$100 – $280
Ownership
For-profit378$272$108 – $713
Government406$174$98 – $283
Non-profit1,840$183$100 – $325
System affiliation
Part of a system2,237$190$101 – $359
Independent396$166$91 – $290

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$311
Median cash price$187
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

1,863 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $198 and the average of the middle 60% is $204; most fall between $103 and $351.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,863 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
$72$116$198$306$465

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($72 vs $465).

Of the 2,050 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,863 gave a usable cash price; 110 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,633 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,914 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,633
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here184
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 — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,914

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 Radiologic Examination Femur 1 View|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 the thigh bone, 1 view (CPT 73551) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73551-x-ray-of-the-thigh-bone-1-view