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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of the leg, not a joint, with contrast

CPT 73719the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of the soft tissues and bones of the lower limb outside a joint, taken after contrast dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $1,958 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,562 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,014. Most fall between $954 and $3,388 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,562
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 2,562 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
$622$1,138$1,958$3,056$5,111

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($622 vs $5,111).

How the prices are spread

$453 – $599: 110 hospitals$453$599 – $792: 157 hospitals$792 – $1,048: 180 hospitals$792$1,048 – $1,386: 256 hospitals$1,386 – $1,833: 361 hospitals$1,386$1,833 – $2,424: 419 hospitals$2,424 – $3,205: 362 hospitals$2,424$3,205 – $4,239: 237 hospitals$4,239 – $5,606: 133 hospitals$4,239$5,606 – $7,414: 91 hospitals$5,606median $1,958price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,306 of 2,562 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$453$599110
$599$792157
$792$1,048180
$1,048$1,386256
$1,386$1,833361
$1,833$2,424419
$2,424$3,205362
$3,205$4,239237
$4,239$5,606133
$5,606$7,41491

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$1,958
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.5×

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 $1,958.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,444 across 21 hospitalsME$1,444Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $2,702 across 13 hospitalsNH$2,702Washington: median $2,043 across 53 hospitalsWA$2,043Idaho: median $1,718 across 10 hospitalsID$1,718Montana: median $2,021 across 12 hospitalsMT$2,021North Dakota: median $2,460 across 13 hospitalsND$2,460Minnesota: median $1,894 across 58 hospitalsMN$1,894Illinois: median $3,006 across 114 hospitalsIL$3,006Wisconsin: median $2,210 across 80 hospitalsWI$2,210Michigan: median $1,547 across 57 hospitalsMI$1,547New York: median $1,120 across 100 hospitalsNY$1,120Massachusetts: median $2,363 across 39 hospitalsMA$2,363Oregon: median $1,831 across 31 hospitalsOR$1,831Nevada: median $1,639 across 13 hospitalsNV$1,639Wyoming: median $1,722 across 12 hospitalsWY$1,722South Dakota: median $3,600 across 12 hospitalsSD$3,600Iowa: median $2,326 across 49 hospitalsIA$2,326Indiana: median $970 across 77 hospitalsIN$970Ohio: median $1,849 across 111 hospitalsOH$1,849Pennsylvania: median $2,384 across 104 hospitalsPA$2,384New Jersey: median $966 across 45 hospitalsNJ$966Connecticut: median $1,309 across 14 hospitalsCT$1,309Rhode Island: median $1,556 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,556California: median $3,224 across 160 hospitalsCA$3,224Utah: median $2,389 across 37 hospitalsUT$2,389Colorado: median $2,140 across 57 hospitalsCO$2,140Nebraska: median $2,466 across 57 hospitalsNE$2,466Missouri: median $1,705 across 62 hospitalsMO$1,705Kentucky: median $1,613 across 52 hospitalsKY$1,613West Virginia: median $2,091 across 24 hospitalsWV$2,091Virginia: median $2,093 across 56 hospitalsVA$2,093Maryland: median $1,021 across 35 hospitalsMD$1,021Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,124 across 44 hospitalsAZ$1,124New Mexico: median $1,899 across 22 hospitalsNM$1,899Kansas: median $1,350 across 59 hospitalsKS$1,350Arkansas: median $1,105 across 16 hospitalsAR$1,105Tennessee: median $992 across 73 hospitalsTN$992North Carolina: median $2,116 across 67 hospitalsNC$2,116South Carolina: median $2,414 across 47 hospitalsSC$2,414Oklahoma: median $1,308 across 49 hospitalsOK$1,308Louisiana: median $913 across 46 hospitalsLA$913Mississippi: median $1,158 across 45 hospitalsMS$1,158Alabama: median $1,442 across 31 hospitalsAL$1,442Georgia: median $1,902 across 87 hospitalsGA$1,902Hawaii: median $1,436 across 14 hospitalsHI$1,436Texas: median $2,646 across 204 hospitalsTX$2,646Florida: median $3,313 across 147 hospitalsFL$3,313
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,958. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD12$3,600+84%$3,531 – $3,653
Florida FL147$3,313+69%$1,358 – $8,372
California CA160$3,224+65%$1,566 – $6,357
Illinois IL114$3,006+53%$1,392 – $4,401
New Hampshire NH13$2,702+38%$1,407 – $6,891
Texas TX204$2,646+35%$1,335 – $4,281
Nebraska NE57$2,466+26%$1,549 – $3,038
North Dakota ND13$2,460+26%$1,758 – $3,088
South Carolina SC47$2,414+23%$1,950 – $3,765
Utah UT37$2,389+22%$1,929 – $2,655
Pennsylvania PA104$2,384+22%$518 – $4,742
Massachusetts MA39$2,363+21%$1,309 – $3,806
Iowa IA49$2,326+19%$1,560 – $3,103
Wisconsin WI80$2,210+13%$1,124 – $2,845
Colorado CO57$2,140+9%$1,103 – $2,869
North Carolina NC67$2,116+8%$1,320 – $2,573
Virginia VA56$2,093+7%$1,078 – $2,870
West Virginia WV24$2,091+7%$1,663 – $3,657
Washington WA53$2,043+4%$1,096 – $2,652
Montana MT12$2,021+3%$1,646 – $2,810
Georgia GA87$1,902−3%$700 – $2,936
New Mexico NM22$1,899−3%$1,411 – $2,497
Minnesota MN58$1,894−3%$751 – $2,783
Ohio OH111$1,849−6%$1,319 – $2,518
Oregon OR31$1,831−6%$1,425 – $2,224
Wyoming WY12$1,722−12%$1,001 – $2,700
Idaho ID10$1,718−12%$1,398 – $2,389
Missouri MO62$1,705−13%$1,233 – $2,732
Nevada NV13$1,639−16%$931 – $3,948
Kentucky KY52$1,613−18%$1,080 – $3,305
Rhode Island RI10$1,556−21%$281 – $2,200
Michigan MI57$1,547−21%$1,069 – $2,946
Maine ME21$1,444−26%$619 – $2,482
Alabama AL31$1,442−26%$840 – $2,165
Hawaii HI14$1,436−27%$947 – $1,965
Kansas KS59$1,350−31%$760 – $2,488
Connecticut CT14$1,309−33%$1,078 – $2,227
Oklahoma OK49$1,308−33%$846 – $1,996
Mississippi MS45$1,158−41%$826 – $1,552
Arizona AZ44$1,124−43%$497 – $5,455
New York NY100$1,120−43%$652 – $2,875
Arkansas AR16$1,105−44%$644 – $1,956
Maryland MD35$1,021−48%$563 – $1,532
Tennessee TN73$992−49%$569 – $2,424
Indiana IN77$970−50%$619 – $2,176
New Jersey NJ45$966−51%$404 – $4,555
Louisiana LA46$913−53%$625 – $1,660
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $1,958.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,938$1,890$889 – $3,483
Children’s59$2,788$2,205 – $4,816
Critical access557$2,071$1,124 – $3,036
Ownership
For-profit392$2,646$1,130 – $8,166
Government438$1,832$905 – $2,719
Non-profit1,724$1,906$936 – $3,224
System affiliation
Part of a system2,106$2,002$996 – $3,483
Independent456$1,718$868 – $3,051

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,353
Median cash price$1,958
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

1,780 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,981 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,040; most fall between $1,030 and $3,333.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,780 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
$660$1,224$1,981$3,051$4,575

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($660 vs $4,575).

Of the 1,983 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,780 gave a usable cash price; 113 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 90 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,562 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,863 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,562
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here192
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 — excluded108
Hospitals that filed this code2,863

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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Lower Extrem Oth/Thn Jt W/Contrast Matrl|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, “MRI of the leg, not a joint, with contrast (CPT 73719) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73719-mri-of-the-leg-not-a-joint-with-contrast