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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the knee, 1 or 2 views

CPT 73560the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of one knee using one or two views.

Hospitals typically charge $224 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,312 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $233. Most fall between $115 and $395 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,312
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 3,312 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
$81$134$224$350$598

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $598).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $76: 119 hospitals$58$76 – $100: 204 hospitals$100 – $131: 314 hospitals$100$131 – $173: 396 hospitals$173 – $227: 482 hospitals$173$227 – $298: 544 hospitals$298 – $392: 414 hospitals$298$392 – $515: 268 hospitals$515 – $678: 144 hospitals$515$678 – $891: 97 hospitals$678median $224price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,982 of 3,312 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$76119
$76$100204
$100$131314
$131$173396
$173$227482
$227$298544
$298$392414
$392$515268
$515$678144
$678$89197

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$224
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $224.

Alaska: median $368 across 17 hospitalsAK$368Maine: median $150 across 25 hospitalsME$150Vermont: median $396 across 12 hospitalsVT$396New Hampshire: median $236 across 22 hospitalsNH$236Washington: median $234 across 63 hospitalsWA$234Idaho: median $226 across 22 hospitalsID$226Montana: median $176 across 19 hospitalsMT$176North Dakota: median $174 across 28 hospitalsND$174Minnesota: median $187 across 99 hospitalsMN$187Illinois: median $294 across 124 hospitalsIL$294Wisconsin: median $197 across 110 hospitalsWI$197Michigan: median $143 across 85 hospitalsMI$143New York: median $153 across 114 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $319 across 51 hospitalsMA$319Oregon: median $178 across 44 hospitalsOR$178Nevada: median $281 across 21 hospitalsNV$281Wyoming: median $222 across 14 hospitalsWY$222South Dakota: median $308 across 43 hospitalsSD$308Iowa: median $192 across 88 hospitalsIA$192Indiana: median $181 across 91 hospitalsIN$181Ohio: median $236 across 143 hospitalsOH$236Pennsylvania: median $229 across 116 hospitalsPA$229New Jersey: median $117 across 46 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $218 across 22 hospitalsCT$218Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $338 across 193 hospitalsCA$338Utah: median $254 across 42 hospitalsUT$254Colorado: median $238 across 66 hospitalsCO$238Nebraska: median $295 across 85 hospitalsNE$295Missouri: median $190 across 76 hospitalsMO$190Kentucky: median $239 across 67 hospitalsKY$239West Virginia: median $177 across 43 hospitalsWV$177Virginia: median $256 across 71 hospitalsVA$256Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $128 across 51 hospitalsAZ$128New Mexico: median $214 across 29 hospitalsNM$214Kansas: median $174 across 91 hospitalsKS$174Arkansas: median $95 across 37 hospitalsAR$95Tennessee: median $110 across 78 hospitalsTN$110North Carolina: median $217 across 96 hospitalsNC$217South Carolina: median $276 across 53 hospitalsSC$276Oklahoma: median $181 across 70 hospitalsOK$181Louisiana: median $131 across 55 hospitalsLA$131Mississippi: median $104 across 50 hospitalsMS$104Alabama: median $144 across 42 hospitalsAL$144Georgia: median $197 across 110 hospitalsGA$197Hawaii: median $251 across 19 hospitalsHI$251Texas: median $295 across 240 hospitalsTX$295Florida: median $596 across 173 hospitalsFL$596
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $224. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$596+166%$261 – $1,445
Vermont VT12$396+77%$365 – $553
Alaska AK17$368+64%$105 – $506
California CA193$338+51%$172 – $634
Massachusetts MA51$319+42%$219 – $404
South Dakota SD43$308+38%$177 – $471
Nebraska NE85$295+32%$155 – $383
Texas TX240$295+31%$150 – $598
Illinois IL124$294+31%$148 – $503
Nevada NV21$281+26%$109 – $409
South Carolina SC53$276+23%$131 – $327
Virginia VA71$256+14%$148 – $461
Utah UT42$254+13%$209 – $351
Hawaii HI19$251+12%$193 – $367
Kentucky KY67$239+7%$141 – $368
Colorado CO66$238+6%$198 – $395
Ohio OH143$236+5%$183 – $363
New Hampshire NH22$236+5%$148 – $526
Washington WA63$234+4%$106 – $328
Pennsylvania PA116$229+2%$103 – $481
Idaho ID22$226+1%$145 – $365
Wyoming WY14$222−1%$82 – $325
Connecticut CT22$218−3%$118 – $300
North Carolina NC96$217−3%$171 – $322
New Mexico NM29$214−5%$145 – $353
Rhode Island RI10$213−5%$90 – $286
Georgia GA110$197−12%$85 – $373
Wisconsin WI110$197−12%$77 – $304
Iowa IA88$192−14%$127 – $258
Maryland MD40$191−15%$128 – $246
Missouri MO76$190−15%$116 – $325
Minnesota MN99$187−17%$70 – $267
Oklahoma OK70$181−19%$112 – $349
Indiana IN91$181−19%$118 – $281
Oregon OR44$178−21%$78 – $290
West Virginia WV43$177−21%$122 – $259
Montana MT19$176−21%$152 – $238
Kansas KS91$174−22%$119 – $264
North Dakota ND28$174−22%$132 – $204
New York NY114$153−32%$103 – $339
Maine ME25$150−33%$71 – $236
Alabama AL42$144−36%$78 – $274
Michigan MI85$143−36%$91 – $330
Louisiana LA55$131−42%$79 – $196
Arizona AZ51$128−43%$96 – $348
New Jersey NJ46$117−48%$98 – $243
Tennessee TN78$110−51%$61 – $229
Mississippi MS50$104−54%$61 – $146
Arkansas AR37$95−58%$74 – $196
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 $224.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,327$228$115 – $418
Children’s69$285$195 – $484
Critical access906$210$112 – $324
Ownership
For-profit494$303$130 – $1,052
Government610$197$104 – $310
Non-profit2,198$222$117 – $380
System affiliation
Part of a system2,707$231$121 – $403
Independent605$190$95 – $317

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$369
Median cash price$224
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

2,278 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $235 and the average of the middle 60% is $245; most fall between $127 and $395.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,278 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
$86$146$235$361$519

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $519).

Of the 2,535 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,278 gave a usable cash price; 149 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

3,312 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,694 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,312
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here246
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 — excluded135
Hospitals that filed this code3,694

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 Knee 1/2 Views|TECHNICAL 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 knee, 1 or 2 views (CPT 73560) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73560-x-ray-of-the-knee-1-or-2-views