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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the thigh bone, 2 or more views

CPT 73552the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the femur, the long bone of the thigh, using at least two separate views.

Hospitals typically charge $235 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,295 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $243. Most fall between $116 and $416 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,295
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 3,295 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
$83$134$235$368$612

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $612).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $76: 117 hospitals$58$76 – $100: 190 hospitals$100 – $132: 336 hospitals$100$132 – $173: 329 hospitals$173 – $227: 432 hospitals$173$227 – $298: 534 hospitals$298 – $392: 439 hospitals$298$392 – $515: 316 hospitals$515 – $676: 163 hospitals$515$676 – $887: 111 hospitals$676median $235price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,967 of 3,295 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$76117
$76$100190
$100$132336
$132$173329
$173$227432
$227$298534
$298$392439
$392$515316
$515$676163
$676$887111

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$235
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $235.

Alaska: median $423 across 17 hospitalsAK$423Maine: median $169 across 25 hospitalsME$169Vermont: median $419 across 12 hospitalsVT$419New Hampshire: median $254 across 21 hospitalsNH$254Washington: median $222 across 63 hospitalsWA$222Idaho: median $271 across 22 hospitalsID$271Montana: median $182 across 20 hospitalsMT$182North Dakota: median $156 across 32 hospitalsND$156Minnesota: median $191 across 99 hospitalsMN$191Illinois: median $285 across 124 hospitalsIL$285Wisconsin: median $248 across 110 hospitalsWI$248Michigan: median $170 across 85 hospitalsMI$170New York: median $190 across 102 hospitalsNY$190Massachusetts: median $270 across 51 hospitalsMA$270Oregon: median $245 across 45 hospitalsOR$245Nevada: median $188 across 21 hospitalsNV$188Wyoming: median $194 across 14 hospitalsWY$194South Dakota: median $370 across 43 hospitalsSD$370Iowa: median $196 across 89 hospitalsIA$196Indiana: median $196 across 96 hospitalsIN$196Ohio: median $268 across 143 hospitalsOH$268Pennsylvania: median $234 across 115 hospitalsPA$234New Jersey: median $114 across 46 hospitalsNJ$114Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $218 across 10 hospitalsRI$218California: median $391 across 191 hospitalsCA$391Utah: median $333 across 43 hospitalsUT$333Colorado: median $210 across 66 hospitalsCO$210Nebraska: median $320 across 82 hospitalsNE$320Missouri: median $183 across 75 hospitalsMO$183Kentucky: median $294 across 67 hospitalsKY$294West Virginia: median $184 across 43 hospitalsWV$184Virginia: median $247 across 71 hospitalsVA$247Maryland: median $192 across 40 hospitalsMD$192Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $136 across 51 hospitalsAZ$136New Mexico: median $224 across 29 hospitalsNM$224Kansas: median $207 across 86 hospitalsKS$207Arkansas: median $83 across 36 hospitalsAR$83Tennessee: median $106 across 78 hospitalsTN$106North Carolina: median $208 across 96 hospitalsNC$208South Carolina: median $285 across 53 hospitalsSC$285Oklahoma: median $236 across 70 hospitalsOK$236Louisiana: median $119 across 54 hospitalsLA$119Mississippi: median $116 across 49 hospitalsMS$116Alabama: median $180 across 43 hospitalsAL$180Georgia: median $218 across 109 hospitalsGA$218Hawaii: median $263 across 19 hospitalsHI$263Texas: median $337 across 238 hospitalsTX$337Florida: median $524 across 173 hospitalsFL$524
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $235. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$524+123%$248 – $1,725
Alaska AK17$423+80%$277 – $875
Vermont VT12$419+78%$328 – $677
California CA191$391+66%$207 – $749
South Dakota SD43$370+57%$257 – $626
Texas TX238$337+44%$171 – $652
Utah UT43$333+42%$212 – $333
Nebraska NE82$320+36%$130 – $392
Kentucky KY67$294+25%$145 – $538
Illinois IL124$285+21%$126 – $493
South Carolina SC53$285+21%$135 – $405
Idaho ID22$271+15%$180 – $365
Massachusetts MA51$270+15%$170 – $402
Ohio OH143$268+14%$177 – $395
Hawaii HI19$263+12%$223 – $330
New Hampshire NH21$254+8%$208 – $527
Wisconsin WI110$248+5%$78 – $348
Virginia VA71$247+5%$137 – $602
Oregon OR45$245+4%$125 – $304
Oklahoma OK70$2360%$116 – $402
Pennsylvania PA115$2340%$103 – $483
New Mexico NM29$224−5%$136 – $309
Washington WA63$222−6%$106 – $342
Rhode Island RI10$218−7%$90 – $286
Georgia GA109$218−7%$99 – $347
Connecticut CT22$217−8%$145 – $394
Colorado CO66$210−11%$112 – $322
North Carolina NC96$208−12%$122 – $301
Kansas KS86$207−12%$109 – $354
Iowa IA89$196−17%$150 – $282
Indiana IN96$196−17%$118 – $288
Wyoming WY14$194−17%$79 – $257
Maryland MD40$192−18%$144 – $246
Minnesota MN99$191−19%$64 – $291
New York NY102$190−19%$104 – $372
Nevada NV21$188−20%$109 – $618
West Virginia WV43$184−22%$137 – $325
Missouri MO75$183−22%$118 – $307
Montana MT20$182−22%$110 – $230
Alabama AL43$180−23%$86 – $424
Michigan MI85$170−28%$106 – $267
Maine ME25$169−28%$85 – $301
North Dakota ND32$156−34%$129 – $222
Arizona AZ51$136−42%$101 – $337
Louisiana LA54$119−49%$73 – $185
Mississippi MS49$116−51%$83 – $177
New Jersey NJ46$114−52%$98 – $313
Tennessee TN78$106−55%$69 – $247
Arkansas AR36$83−64%$46 – $238
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 $235.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,309$236$111 – $452
Children’s69$267$160 – $504
Critical access907$230$125 – $357
Ownership
For-profit489$306$125 – $1,018
Government607$208$104 – $346
Non-profit2,189$232$117 – $397
System affiliation
Part of a system2,697$244$122 – $431
Independent598$197$97 – $354

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$394
Median cash price$235
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

2,280 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $251 and the average of the middle 60% is $258; most fall between $125 and $422.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,280 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
$89$145$251$380$565

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $565).

Of the 2,532 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,280 gave a usable cash price; 142 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,295 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,672 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,295
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here240
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 — excluded136
Hospitals that filed this code3,672

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 Minimum 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 the thigh bone, 2 or more views (CPT 73552) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73552-x-ray-of-the-thigh-bone-2-or-more-views