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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the knee, 3 views

CPT 73562the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of one knee using three separate views.

Hospitals typically charge $262 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,275 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $275. Most fall between $132 and $459 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,275
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 3,275 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
$91$157$262$407$684

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($91 vs $684).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $89: 154 hospitals$67$89 – $116: 222 hospitals$116 – $153: 250 hospitals$116$153 – $201: 352 hospitals$201 – $265: 517 hospitals$201$265 – $348: 470 hospitals$348 – $457: 486 hospitals$348$457 – $601: 258 hospitals$601 – $790: 138 hospitals$601$790 – $1,038: 102 hospitals$790median $262price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,949 of 3,275 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$89154
$89$116222
$116$153250
$153$201352
$201$265517
$265$348470
$348$457486
$457$601258
$601$790138
$790$1,038102

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$262
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.0×

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 $262.

Alaska: median $430 across 17 hospitalsAK$430Maine: median $179 across 25 hospitalsME$179Vermont: median $485 across 12 hospitalsVT$485New Hampshire: median $305 across 22 hospitalsNH$305Washington: median $282 across 63 hospitalsWA$282Idaho: median $248 across 22 hospitalsID$248Montana: median $213 across 19 hospitalsMT$213North Dakota: median $178 across 28 hospitalsND$178Minnesota: median $223 across 99 hospitalsMN$223Illinois: median $356 across 125 hospitalsIL$356Wisconsin: median $248 across 109 hospitalsWI$248Michigan: median $179 across 84 hospitalsMI$179New York: median $157 across 113 hospitalsNY$157Massachusetts: median $350 across 52 hospitalsMA$350Oregon: median $247 across 44 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $331 across 19 hospitalsNV$331Wyoming: median $291 across 14 hospitalsWY$291South Dakota: median $373 across 43 hospitalsSD$373Iowa: median $213 across 89 hospitalsIA$213Indiana: median $211 across 91 hospitalsIN$211Ohio: median $299 across 141 hospitalsOH$299Pennsylvania: median $269 across 116 hospitalsPA$269New Jersey: median $121 across 45 hospitalsNJ$121Connecticut: median $248 across 21 hospitalsCT$248Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $406 across 187 hospitalsCA$406Utah: median $362 across 43 hospitalsUT$362Colorado: median $283 across 66 hospitalsCO$283Nebraska: median $361 across 83 hospitalsNE$361Missouri: median $254 across 76 hospitalsMO$254Kentucky: median $313 across 67 hospitalsKY$313West Virginia: median $194 across 42 hospitalsWV$194Virginia: median $301 across 70 hospitalsVA$301Maryland: median $223 across 39 hospitalsMD$223Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $142 across 50 hospitalsAZ$142New Mexico: median $293 across 28 hospitalsNM$293Kansas: median $220 across 89 hospitalsKS$220Arkansas: median $105 across 36 hospitalsAR$105Tennessee: median $142 across 78 hospitalsTN$142North Carolina: median $276 across 95 hospitalsNC$276South Carolina: median $326 across 53 hospitalsSC$326Oklahoma: median $233 across 69 hospitalsOK$233Louisiana: median $141 across 54 hospitalsLA$141Mississippi: median $115 across 48 hospitalsMS$115Alabama: median $200 across 41 hospitalsAL$200Georgia: median $236 across 105 hospitalsGA$236Hawaii: median $289 across 19 hospitalsHI$289Texas: median $389 across 238 hospitalsTX$389Florida: median $684 across 170 hospitalsFL$684
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $262. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL170$684+161%$274 – $1,693
Vermont VT12$485+85%$417 – $654
Alaska AK17$430+64%$179 – $686
California CA187$406+55%$227 – $783
Texas TX238$389+48%$197 – $732
South Dakota SD43$373+42%$234 – $509
Utah UT43$362+38%$312 – $456
Nebraska NE83$361+38%$247 – $437
Illinois IL125$356+36%$158 – $563
Massachusetts MA52$350+33%$218 – $483
Nevada NV19$331+26%$94 – $483
South Carolina SC53$326+24%$150 – $477
Kentucky KY67$313+19%$165 – $454
New Hampshire NH22$305+16%$169 – $500
Virginia VA70$301+15%$215 – $645
Ohio OH141$299+14%$211 – $395
New Mexico NM28$293+12%$180 – $501
Wyoming WY14$291+11%$84 – $407
Hawaii HI19$289+10%$238 – $343
Colorado CO66$283+8%$218 – $415
Washington WA63$282+7%$118 – $372
North Carolina NC95$276+5%$204 – $406
Pennsylvania PA116$269+2%$105 – $571
Missouri MO76$254−3%$137 – $400
Idaho ID22$248−6%$135 – $365
Wisconsin WI109$248−6%$86 – $353
Connecticut CT21$248−6%$134 – $453
Oregon OR44$247−6%$114 – $320
Georgia GA105$236−10%$102 – $440
Oklahoma OK69$233−11%$122 – $425
Maryland MD39$223−15%$148 – $295
Minnesota MN99$223−15%$83 – $310
Kansas KS89$220−16%$138 – $294
Rhode Island RI10$213−19%$90 – $286
Montana MT19$213−19%$181 – $308
Iowa IA89$213−19%$150 – $304
Indiana IN91$211−20%$129 – $347
Alabama AL41$200−24%$86 – $332
West Virginia WV42$194−26%$150 – $302
Maine ME25$179−32%$91 – $295
Michigan MI84$179−32%$104 – $359
North Dakota ND28$178−32%$147 – $234
New York NY113$157−40%$104 – $374
Arizona AZ50$142−46%$107 – $453
Tennessee TN78$142−46%$69 – $235
Louisiana LA54$141−46%$80 – $240
New Jersey NJ45$121−54%$98 – $243
Mississippi MS48$115−56%$82 – $153
Arkansas AR36$105−60%$86 – $235
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 $262.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,300$268$127 – $498
Children’s66$341$227 – $569
Critical access899$248$133 – $386
Ownership
For-profit478$350$159 – $1,225
Government603$233$113 – $375
Non-profit2,184$261$132 – $435
System affiliation
Part of a system2,689$272$138 – $467
Independent586$226$106 – $374

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$434
Median cash price$262
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

2,255 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $278 and the average of the middle 60% is $293; most fall between $152 and $459.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,255 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
$101$176$278$420$613

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($101 vs $613).

Of the 2,508 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,255 gave a usable cash price; 143 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

3,275 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 3,653 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,275
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here241
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 code3,653

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 3 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 knee, 3 views (CPT 73562) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73562-x-ray-of-the-knee-3-views