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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the lower leg bones, 2 views

CPT 73590the billing code this page is about

Two-view X-ray imaging of the tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower leg.

Hospitals typically charge $234 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,290 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $246. Most fall between $118 and $416 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,290
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 3,290 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
$85$137$234$373$640

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $640).

How the prices are spread

$61 – $80: 126 hospitals$61$80 – $106: 263 hospitals$106 – $141: 294 hospitals$106$141 – $186: 350 hospitals$186 – $247: 523 hospitals$186$247 – $326: 516 hospitals$326 – $432: 440 hospitals$326$432 – $572: 196 hospitals$572 – $757: 149 hospitals$572$757 – $1,002: 105 hospitals$757median $234price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,962 of 3,290 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$61$80126
$80$106263
$106$141294
$141$186350
$186$247523
$247$326516
$326$432440
$432$572196
$572$757149
$757$1,002105

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$234
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 $234.

Alaska: median $385 across 17 hospitalsAK$385Maine: median $175 across 25 hospitalsME$175Vermont: median $368 across 12 hospitalsVT$368New Hampshire: median $242 across 22 hospitalsNH$242Washington: median $222 across 63 hospitalsWA$222Idaho: median $253 across 22 hospitalsID$253Montana: median $187 across 19 hospitalsMT$187North Dakota: median $159 across 28 hospitalsND$159Minnesota: median $195 across 99 hospitalsMN$195Illinois: median $317 across 125 hospitalsIL$317Wisconsin: median $218 across 110 hospitalsWI$218Michigan: median $154 across 85 hospitalsMI$154New York: median $202 across 100 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: median $317 across 51 hospitalsMA$317Oregon: median $203 across 45 hospitalsOR$203Nevada: median $275 across 21 hospitalsNV$275Wyoming: median $201 across 14 hospitalsWY$201South Dakota: median $342 across 43 hospitalsSD$342Iowa: median $192 across 89 hospitalsIA$192Indiana: median $195 across 90 hospitalsIN$195Ohio: median $245 across 141 hospitalsOH$245Pennsylvania: median $235 across 116 hospitalsPA$235New Jersey: median $117 across 46 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $217 across 10 hospitalsRI$217California: median $402 across 195 hospitalsCA$402Utah: median $287 across 42 hospitalsUT$287Colorado: median $251 across 66 hospitalsCO$251Nebraska: median $301 across 83 hospitalsNE$301Missouri: median $213 across 75 hospitalsMO$213Kentucky: median $288 across 67 hospitalsKY$288West Virginia: median $178 across 43 hospitalsWV$178Virginia: median $311 across 71 hospitalsVA$311Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $116 across 51 hospitalsAZ$116New Mexico: median $230 across 29 hospitalsNM$230Kansas: median $204 across 88 hospitalsKS$204Arkansas: median $92 across 36 hospitalsAR$92Tennessee: median $125 across 77 hospitalsTN$125North Carolina: median $212 across 95 hospitalsNC$212South Carolina: median $322 across 53 hospitalsSC$322Oklahoma: median $209 across 70 hospitalsOK$209Louisiana: median $131 across 56 hospitalsLA$131Mississippi: median $110 across 50 hospitalsMS$110Alabama: median $196 across 43 hospitalsAL$196Georgia: median $215 across 107 hospitalsGA$215Hawaii: median $225 across 19 hospitalsHI$225Texas: median $346 across 240 hospitalsTX$346Florida: median $614 across 173 hospitalsFL$614
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $234. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$614+163%$273 – $2,112
California CA195$402+72%$186 – $645
Alaska AK17$385+64%$216 – $622
Vermont VT12$368+57%$310 – $680
Texas TX240$346+48%$178 – $783
South Dakota SD43$342+46%$253 – $542
South Carolina SC53$322+38%$155 – $398
Illinois IL125$317+36%$143 – $537
Massachusetts MA51$317+35%$167 – $385
Virginia VA71$311+33%$193 – $809
Nebraska NE83$301+29%$214 – $374
Kentucky KY67$288+23%$143 – $457
Utah UT42$287+22%$235 – $378
Nevada NV21$275+18%$109 – $545
Idaho ID22$253+8%$135 – $365
Colorado CO66$251+7%$185 – $382
Ohio OH141$245+5%$177 – $395
New Hampshire NH22$242+3%$178 – $513
Pennsylvania PA116$2350%$105 – $550
New Mexico NM29$230−2%$153 – $338
Hawaii HI19$225−4%$155 – $326
Washington WA63$222−5%$106 – $330
Wisconsin WI110$218−7%$80 – $304
Connecticut CT22$217−7%$118 – $352
Rhode Island RI10$217−7%$90 – $286
Georgia GA107$215−8%$103 – $403
Missouri MO75$213−9%$118 – $340
North Carolina NC95$212−9%$128 – $275
Oklahoma OK70$209−11%$118 – $329
Kansas KS88$204−13%$138 – $309
Oregon OR45$203−13%$86 – $296
New York NY100$202−14%$104 – $396
Wyoming WY14$201−14%$79 – $384
Alabama AL43$196−16%$79 – $390
Minnesota MN99$195−17%$81 – $274
Indiana IN90$195−17%$127 – $301
Iowa IA89$192−18%$117 – $258
Maryland MD40$191−18%$128 – $246
Montana MT19$187−20%$117 – $263
West Virginia WV43$178−24%$126 – $326
Maine ME25$175−25%$85 – $242
North Dakota ND28$159−32%$120 – $204
Michigan MI85$154−34%$103 – $320
Louisiana LA56$131−44%$79 – $202
Tennessee TN77$125−47%$66 – $229
New Jersey NJ46$117−50%$97 – $243
Arizona AZ51$116−51%$89 – $449
Mississippi MS50$110−53%$64 – $143
Arkansas AR36$92−61%$81 – $218
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 $234.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,306$246$117 – $476
Children’s68$324$201 – $485
Critical access906$214$119 – $332
Ownership
For-profit491$346$143 – $1,234
Government606$207$106 – $327
Non-profit2,183$228$118 – $397
System affiliation
Part of a system2,691$243$122 – $435
Independent599$204$97 – $350

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$385
Median cash price$234
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

2,272 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $252 and the average of the middle 60% is $260; most fall between $127 and $414.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,272 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
$88$153$252$380$578

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $578).

Of the 2,534 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,272 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 113 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,290 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 3,681 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,290
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here252
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 — excluded138
Hospitals that filed this code3,681

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 PR X-Ray Tib + Fib, 2vw.

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 lower leg bones, 2 views (CPT 73590) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73590-x-ray-of-the-lower-leg-bones-2-views