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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the ankle, 2 views

CPT 73600the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of one ankle using two views.

Hospitals typically charge $215 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,257 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $219. Most fall between $110 and $367 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,257
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 3,257 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
$80$125$215$330$560

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($80 vs $560).

How the prices are spread

$51 – $68: 85 hospitals$51$68 – $90: 185 hospitals$90 – $119: 314 hospitals$90$119 – $158: 380 hospitals$158 – $210: 462 hospitals$158$210 – $278: 559 hospitals$278 – $369: 463 hospitals$278$369 – $489: 259 hospitals$489 – $648: 140 hospitals$489$648 – $859: 86 hospitals$648median $215price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,933 of 3,257 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$51$6885
$68$90185
$90$119314
$119$158380
$158$210462
$210$278559
$278$369463
$369$489259
$489$648140
$648$85986

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$215
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $215.

Alaska: median $355 across 17 hospitalsAK$355Maine: median $150 across 25 hospitalsME$150Vermont: median $368 across 12 hospitalsVT$368New Hampshire: median $216 across 22 hospitalsNH$216Washington: median $219 across 63 hospitalsWA$219Idaho: median $208 across 22 hospitalsID$208Montana: median $173 across 19 hospitalsMT$173North Dakota: median $140 across 28 hospitalsND$140Minnesota: median $175 across 97 hospitalsMN$175Illinois: median $276 across 125 hospitalsIL$276Wisconsin: median $195 across 109 hospitalsWI$195Michigan: median $172 across 85 hospitalsMI$172New York: median $151 across 110 hospitalsNY$151Massachusetts: median $257 across 46 hospitalsMA$257Oregon: median $247 across 45 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $280 across 21 hospitalsNV$280Wyoming: median $187 across 14 hospitalsWY$187South Dakota: median $286 across 41 hospitalsSD$286Iowa: median $172 across 86 hospitalsIA$172Indiana: median $159 across 90 hospitalsIN$159Ohio: median $220 across 141 hospitalsOH$220Pennsylvania: median $226 across 115 hospitalsPA$226New Jersey: median $113 across 46 hospitalsNJ$113Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $351 across 191 hospitalsCA$351Utah: median $222 across 40 hospitalsUT$222Colorado: median $222 across 65 hospitalsCO$222Nebraska: median $240 across 81 hospitalsNE$240Missouri: median $171 across 75 hospitalsMO$171Kentucky: median $235 across 66 hospitalsKY$235West Virginia: median $177 across 43 hospitalsWV$177Virginia: median $269 across 71 hospitalsVA$269Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $118 across 51 hospitalsAZ$118New Mexico: median $199 across 29 hospitalsNM$199Kansas: median $179 across 86 hospitalsKS$179Arkansas: median $98 across 37 hospitalsAR$98Tennessee: median $85 across 74 hospitalsTN$85North Carolina: median $220 across 94 hospitalsNC$220South Carolina: median $285 across 53 hospitalsSC$285Oklahoma: median $183 across 69 hospitalsOK$183Louisiana: median $106 across 52 hospitalsLA$106Mississippi: median $89 across 48 hospitalsMS$89Alabama: median $138 across 43 hospitalsAL$138Georgia: median $199 across 106 hospitalsGA$199Hawaii: median $218 across 19 hospitalsHI$218Texas: median $288 across 236 hospitalsTX$288Florida: median $487 across 171 hospitalsFL$487
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $215. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL171$487+127%$232 – $1,378
Vermont VT12$368+71%$280 – $539
Alaska AK17$355+65%$91 – $537
California CA191$351+63%$190 – $563
Texas TX236$288+34%$150 – $522
South Dakota SD41$286+33%$235 – $412
South Carolina SC53$285+32%$142 – $356
Nevada NV21$280+30%$122 – $478
Illinois IL125$276+28%$129 – $386
Virginia VA71$269+25%$157 – $578
Massachusetts MA46$257+20%$146 – $426
Oregon OR45$247+15%$99 – $280
Nebraska NE81$240+12%$168 – $314
Kentucky KY66$235+10%$125 – $418
Pennsylvania PA115$226+5%$103 – $465
Colorado CO65$222+3%$161 – $297
Utah UT40$222+3%$197 – $332
North Carolina NC94$220+2%$143 – $370
Ohio OH141$220+2%$165 – $362
Washington WA63$219+2%$112 – $304
Hawaii HI19$218+2%$161 – $293
Connecticut CT22$217+1%$118 – $364
New Hampshire NH22$2160%$148 – $379
Rhode Island RI10$213−1%$91 – $272
Idaho ID22$208−3%$135 – $365
Georgia GA106$199−7%$104 – $351
New Mexico NM29$199−7%$123 – $316
Wisconsin WI109$195−9%$70 – $287
Maryland MD40$191−11%$128 – $241
Wyoming WY14$187−13%$75 – $373
Oklahoma OK69$183−15%$126 – $296
Kansas KS86$179−17%$85 – $320
West Virginia WV43$177−18%$113 – $271
Minnesota MN97$175−19%$91 – $226
Montana MT19$173−20%$135 – $228
Michigan MI85$172−20%$94 – $262
Iowa IA86$172−20%$116 – $240
Missouri MO75$171−20%$105 – $311
Indiana IN90$159−26%$118 – $247
New York NY110$151−30%$96 – $295
Maine ME25$150−30%$81 – $236
North Dakota ND28$140−35%$107 – $212
Alabama AL43$138−36%$78 – $270
Arizona AZ51$118−45%$91 – $293
New Jersey NJ46$113−48%$96 – $243
Louisiana LA52$106−51%$69 – $176
Arkansas AR37$98−54%$84 – $174
Mississippi MS48$89−59%$48 – $143
Tennessee TN74$85−61%$58 – $182
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 $215.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,296$220$109 – $408
Children’s68$305$188 – $417
Critical access883$194$108 – $297
Ownership
For-profit483$289$126 – $907
Government596$190$98 – $287
Non-profit2,168$212$111 – $354
System affiliation
Part of a system2,676$220$115 – $384
Independent581$179$91 – $309

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$355
Median cash price$215
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

2,244 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $226 and the average of the middle 60% is $233; most fall between $121 and $365.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,244 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$141$226$335$485

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $485).

Of the 2,498 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,244 gave a usable cash price; 146 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

3,257 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,634 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,257
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here239
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 — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,634

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 Ankle 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 ankle, 2 views (CPT 73600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73600-x-ray-of-the-ankle-2-views