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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the ankle joint with contrast dye

CPT 73615the billing code this page is about

Covers the radiology supervision and interpretation for X-ray images of an ankle joint taken after contrast dye is injected into the joint.

Hospitals typically charge $638 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,594 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $701. Most fall between $352 and $1,328 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,594
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,594 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
$234$396$638$1,141$2,092

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($234 vs $2,092).

How the prices are spread

$164 – $220: 65 hospitals$164$220 – $295: 86 hospitals$295 – $396: 168 hospitals$295$396 – $531: 227 hospitals$531 – $713: 257 hospitals$531$713 – $957: 213 hospitals$957 – $1,285: 167 hospitals$957$1,285 – $1,724: 129 hospitals$1,724 – $2,315: 81 hospitals$1,724$2,315 – $3,107: 43 hospitals$2,315median $638price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,436 of 1,594 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$164$22065
$220$29586
$295$396168
$396$531227
$531$713257
$713$957213
$957$1,285167
$1,285$1,724129
$1,724$2,31581
$2,315$3,10743

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$638
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.79×

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 $638.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $344 across 15 hospitalsME$344Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $786 across 28 hospitalsWA$786Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $305 across 25 hospitalsMN$305Illinois: median $885 across 69 hospitalsIL$885Wisconsin: median $514 across 32 hospitalsWI$514Michigan: median $480 across 33 hospitalsMI$480New York: median $423 across 54 hospitalsNY$423Massachusetts: median $1,274 across 25 hospitalsMA$1,274Oregon: median $696 across 21 hospitalsOR$696Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $462 across 23 hospitalsIA$462Indiana: median $615 across 54 hospitalsIN$615Ohio: median $684 across 87 hospitalsOH$684Pennsylvania: median $670 across 72 hospitalsPA$670New Jersey: median $421 across 29 hospitalsNJ$421Connecticut: median $858 across 10 hospitalsCT$858Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,435 across 147 hospitalsCA$1,435Utah: median $610 across 32 hospitalsUT$610Colorado: median $524 across 37 hospitalsCO$524Nebraska: median $372 across 19 hospitalsNE$372Missouri: median $879 across 32 hospitalsMO$879Kentucky: median $601 across 25 hospitalsKY$601West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $749 across 30 hospitalsVA$749Maryland: median $125 across 18 hospitalsMD$125Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $405 across 33 hospitalsAZ$405New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $476 across 20 hospitalsKS$476Arkansas: median $274 across 10 hospitalsAR$274Tennessee: median $186 across 28 hospitalsTN$186North Carolina: median $518 across 41 hospitalsNC$518South Carolina: median $580 across 42 hospitalsSC$580Oklahoma: median $352 across 28 hospitalsOK$352Louisiana: median $410 across 30 hospitalsLA$410Mississippi: median $356 across 26 hospitalsMS$356Alabama: median $489 across 24 hospitalsAL$489Georgia: median $305 across 62 hospitalsGA$305Hawaii: median $988 across 14 hospitalsHI$988Texas: median $571 across 146 hospitalsTX$571Florida: median $1,135 across 97 hospitalsFL$1,135
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $638. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA147$1,435+125%$450 – $2,084
Massachusetts MA25$1,274+100%$748 – $2,092
Florida FL97$1,135+78%$612 – $2,152
Hawaii HI14$988+55%$548 – $1,513
Illinois IL69$885+39%$556 – $1,229
Missouri MO32$879+38%$526 – $1,469
Connecticut CT10$858+34%$533 – $975
Washington WA28$786+23%$547 – $1,279
Virginia VA30$749+17%$395 – $1,040
Oregon OR21$696+9%$397 – $1,132
Ohio OH87$684+7%$597 – $1,531
Pennsylvania PA72$670+5%$397 – $1,794
Indiana IN54$615−4%$391 – $795
Utah UT32$610−4%$610 – $677
Kentucky KY25$601−6%$348 – $2,637
South Carolina SC42$580−9%$515 – $754
Texas TX146$571−10%$452 – $1,512
Colorado CO37$524−18%$390 – $3,895
North Carolina NC41$518−19%$314 – $606
Wisconsin WI32$514−20%$394 – $1,029
Alabama AL24$489−23%$245 – $910
Michigan MI33$480−25%$296 – $877
Kansas KS20$476−25%$328 – $881
Iowa IA23$462−28%$66 – $862
New York NY54$423−34%$318 – $1,240
New Jersey NJ29$421−34%$390 – $2,242
Louisiana LA30$410−36%$203 – $746
Arizona AZ33$405−37%$266 – $2,871
Nebraska NE19$372−42%$196 – $765
Mississippi MS26$356−44%$146 – $564
Oklahoma OK28$352−45%$254 – $469
Maine ME15$344−46%$275 – $722
Georgia GA62$305−52%$182 – $907
Minnesota MN25$305−52%$277 – $442
Arkansas AR10$274−57%$212 – $685
Tennessee TN28$186−71%$142 – $574
Maryland MD18$125−80%$74 – $897
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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 $638.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,350$643$352 – $1,435
Children’s47$1,119$624 – $1,604
Critical access193$610$309 – $1,026
Ownership
For-profit256$970$404 – $2,272
Government208$476$249 – $988
Non-profit1,126$632$358 – $1,220
System affiliation
Part of a system1,344$658$356 – $1,435
Independent250$564$328 – $1,087

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,140
Median cash price$638
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,133 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $677 and the average of the middle 60% is $716; most fall between $369 and $1,275.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,133 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
$231$410$677$1,119$1,739

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($231 vs $1,739).

Of the 1,259 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,133 gave a usable cash price; 63 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,594 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,798 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,594
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here124
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded79
Hospitals that filed this code1,798

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 September 4, 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 Arthrography Rs&I|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 joint with contrast dye (CPT 73615) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73615-x-ray-of-the-ankle-joint-with-contrast-dye