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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the ankle, 3 or more views

CPT 73610the billing code this page is about

Complete X-ray study of one ankle using at least three separate views.

Hospitals typically charge $263 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,300 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $268. Most fall between $128 and $447 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,300
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 3,300 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$150$263$401$663

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $663).

How the prices are spread

$64 – $84: 116 hospitals$64$84 – $111: 251 hospitals$111 – $147: 276 hospitals$111$147 – $195: 342 hospitals$195 – $258: 466 hospitals$195$258 – $342: 560 hospitals$342 – $453: 486 hospitals$342$453 – $600: 233 hospitals$600 – $794: 129 hospitals$600$794 – $1,052: 112 hospitals$794median $263price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,971 of 3,300 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$64$84116
$84$111251
$111$147276
$147$195342
$195$258466
$258$342560
$342$453486
$453$600233
$600$794129
$794$1,052112

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$263
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 $263.

Alaska: median $410 across 17 hospitalsAK$410Maine: median $178 across 25 hospitalsME$178Vermont: median $453 across 12 hospitalsVT$453New Hampshire: median $245 across 22 hospitalsNH$245Washington: median $273 across 63 hospitalsWA$273Idaho: median $273 across 22 hospitalsID$273Montana: median $208 across 19 hospitalsMT$208North Dakota: median $158 across 28 hospitalsND$158Minnesota: median $203 across 99 hospitalsMN$203Illinois: median $323 across 126 hospitalsIL$323Wisconsin: median $259 across 109 hospitalsWI$259Michigan: median $207 across 85 hospitalsMI$207New York: median $154 across 109 hospitalsNY$154Massachusetts: median $319 across 52 hospitalsMA$319Oregon: median $247 across 45 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $362 across 21 hospitalsNV$362Wyoming: median $265 across 14 hospitalsWY$265South Dakota: median $388 across 43 hospitalsSD$388Iowa: median $224 across 89 hospitalsIA$224Indiana: median $196 across 88 hospitalsIN$196Ohio: median $309 across 141 hospitalsOH$309Pennsylvania: median $248 across 116 hospitalsPA$248New Jersey: median $117 across 46 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $217 across 22 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: median $212 across 10 hospitalsRI$212California: median $439 across 196 hospitalsCA$439Utah: median $385 across 42 hospitalsUT$385Colorado: median $261 across 66 hospitalsCO$261Nebraska: median $322 across 83 hospitalsNE$322Missouri: median $252 across 75 hospitalsMO$252Kentucky: median $317 across 67 hospitalsKY$317West Virginia: median $189 across 43 hospitalsWV$189Virginia: median $316 across 71 hospitalsVA$316Maryland: median $191 across 40 hospitalsMD$191Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $133 across 51 hospitalsAZ$133New Mexico: median $260 across 30 hospitalsNM$260Kansas: median $210 across 89 hospitalsKS$210Arkansas: median $104 across 35 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $140 across 78 hospitalsTN$140North Carolina: median $276 across 95 hospitalsNC$276South Carolina: median $363 across 53 hospitalsSC$363Oklahoma: median $199 across 70 hospitalsOK$199Louisiana: median $135 across 56 hospitalsLA$135Mississippi: median $118 across 49 hospitalsMS$118Alabama: median $210 across 43 hospitalsAL$210Georgia: median $271 across 109 hospitalsGA$271Hawaii: median $263 across 18 hospitalsHI$263Texas: median $378 across 241 hospitalsTX$378Florida: median $604 across 171 hospitalsFL$604
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $263. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL171$604+130%$303 – $2,136
Vermont VT12$453+72%$354 – $589
California CA196$439+67%$220 – $783
Alaska AK17$410+56%$266 – $647
South Dakota SD43$388+48%$257 – $646
Utah UT42$385+46%$361 – $401
Texas TX241$378+44%$180 – $737
South Carolina SC53$363+38%$142 – $437
Nevada NV21$362+38%$131 – $574
Illinois IL126$323+23%$178 – $542
Nebraska NE83$322+23%$202 – $384
Massachusetts MA52$319+21%$194 – $487
Kentucky KY67$317+21%$158 – $489
Virginia VA71$316+20%$211 – $569
Ohio OH141$309+17%$188 – $397
North Carolina NC95$276+5%$208 – $453
Idaho ID22$273+4%$164 – $365
Washington WA63$273+4%$106 – $350
Georgia GA109$271+3%$95 – $378
Wyoming WY14$265+1%$84 – $357
Hawaii HI18$2630%$240 – $346
Colorado CO66$261−1%$202 – $444
New Mexico NM30$260−1%$155 – $375
Wisconsin WI109$259−2%$85 – $315
Missouri MO75$252−4%$139 – $388
Pennsylvania PA116$248−6%$109 – $483
Oregon OR45$247−6%$102 – $312
New Hampshire NH22$245−7%$213 – $533
Iowa IA89$224−15%$144 – $280
Connecticut CT22$217−17%$118 – $410
Rhode Island RI10$212−19%$90 – $272
Kansas KS89$210−20%$112 – $298
Alabama AL43$210−20%$90 – $465
Montana MT19$208−21%$177 – $278
Michigan MI85$207−21%$116 – $344
Minnesota MN99$203−23%$75 – $297
Oklahoma OK70$199−24%$135 – $346
Indiana IN88$196−25%$129 – $305
Maryland MD40$191−27%$128 – $246
West Virginia WV43$189−28%$127 – $268
Maine ME25$178−32%$87 – $275
North Dakota ND28$158−40%$132 – $220
New York NY109$154−41%$104 – $373
Tennessee TN78$140−47%$73 – $264
Louisiana LA56$135−49%$77 – $221
Arizona AZ51$133−49%$103 – $475
Mississippi MS49$118−55%$74 – $193
New Jersey NJ46$117−55%$98 – $243
Arkansas AR35$104−60%$92 – $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 $263.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,315$274$125 – $496
Children’s67$391$201 – $553
Critical access908$235$128 – $365
Ownership
For-profit488$375$154 – $1,265
Government611$230$112 – $346
Non-profit2,191$259$127 – $418
System affiliation
Part of a system2,701$275$135 – $466
Independent599$218$102 – $371

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$431
Median cash price$263
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

2,267 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $275 and the average of the middle 60% is $282; most fall between $139 and $444.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,267 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
$96$166$275$404$605

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($96 vs $605).

Of the 2,532 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,267 gave a usable cash price; 154 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,300 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 3,693 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,300
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here256
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 code3,693

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 Radex Ankle Complete Minimum 3 Views.

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, 3 or more views (CPT 73610) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73610-x-ray-of-the-ankle-3-or-more-views