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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI of a leg joint with contrast

CPT 73722the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of one joint of the lower limb, such as the hip, knee, ankle or foot, taken after contrast dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $2,174 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,941 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,216. Most fall between $1,068 and $3,761 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,941
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 2,941 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
$792$1,270$2,174$3,351$5,322

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($792 vs $5,322).

How the prices are spread

$624 – $808: 172 hospitals$624$808 – $1,045: 234 hospitals$1,045 – $1,353: 235 hospitals$1,045$1,353 – $1,751: 355 hospitals$1,751 – $2,266: 426 hospitals$1,751$2,266 – $2,932: 464 hospitals$2,932 – $3,795: 326 hospitals$2,932$3,795 – $4,911: 218 hospitals$4,911 – $6,355: 132 hospitals$4,911$6,355 – $8,225: 85 hospitals$6,355median $2,174price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,647 of 2,941 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$624$808172
$808$1,045234
$1,045$1,353235
$1,353$1,751355
$1,751$2,266426
$2,266$2,932464
$2,932$3,795326
$3,795$4,911218
$4,911$6,355132
$6,355$8,22585

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$2,174
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.7×

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 $2,174.

Alaska: median $2,237 across 12 hospitalsAK$2,237Maine: median $1,469 across 24 hospitalsME$1,469Vermont: median $3,935 across 11 hospitalsVT$3,935New Hampshire: median $2,212 across 18 hospitalsNH$2,212Washington: median $2,167 across 60 hospitalsWA$2,167Idaho: median $2,234 across 22 hospitalsID$2,234Montana: median $1,963 across 16 hospitalsMT$1,963North Dakota: median $2,425 across 16 hospitalsND$2,425Minnesota: median $1,845 across 78 hospitalsMN$1,845Illinois: median $3,097 across 130 hospitalsIL$3,097Wisconsin: median $2,210 across 103 hospitalsWI$2,210Michigan: median $1,891 across 80 hospitalsMI$1,891New York: median $1,649 across 106 hospitalsNY$1,649Massachusetts: median $2,649 across 40 hospitalsMA$2,649Oregon: median $2,099 across 43 hospitalsOR$2,099Nevada: median $2,057 across 17 hospitalsNV$2,057Wyoming: median $2,201 across 12 hospitalsWY$2,201South Dakota: median $3,603 across 16 hospitalsSD$3,603Iowa: median $2,395 across 71 hospitalsIA$2,395Indiana: median $1,346 across 93 hospitalsIN$1,346Ohio: median $2,259 across 124 hospitalsOH$2,259Pennsylvania: median $2,370 across 113 hospitalsPA$2,370New Jersey: median $1,054 across 45 hospitalsNJ$1,054Connecticut: median $2,318 across 21 hospitalsCT$2,318Rhode Island: median $1,556 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,556California: median $3,077 across 176 hospitalsCA$3,077Utah: median $3,016 across 41 hospitalsUT$3,016Colorado: median $2,159 across 62 hospitalsCO$2,159Nebraska: median $2,764 across 70 hospitalsNE$2,764Missouri: median $1,922 across 72 hospitalsMO$1,922Kentucky: median $1,849 across 58 hospitalsKY$1,849West Virginia: median $2,069 across 34 hospitalsWV$2,069Virginia: median $2,556 across 65 hospitalsVA$2,556Maryland: median $943 across 36 hospitalsMD$943Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,577 across 46 hospitalsAZ$1,577New Mexico: median $1,932 across 24 hospitalsNM$1,932Kansas: median $1,350 across 70 hospitalsKS$1,350Arkansas: median $880 across 21 hospitalsAR$880Tennessee: median $1,010 across 77 hospitalsTN$1,010North Carolina: median $2,316 across 85 hospitalsNC$2,316South Carolina: median $2,390 across 51 hospitalsSC$2,390Oklahoma: median $1,270 across 52 hospitalsOK$1,270Louisiana: median $898 across 51 hospitalsLA$898Mississippi: median $1,228 across 44 hospitalsMS$1,228Alabama: median $1,612 across 37 hospitalsAL$1,612Georgia: median $1,708 across 88 hospitalsGA$1,708Hawaii: median $2,108 across 13 hospitalsHI$2,108Texas: median $2,551 across 215 hospitalsTX$2,551Florida: median $4,428 across 166 hospitalsFL$4,428
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,174. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL166$4,428+104%$1,584 – $8,903
Vermont VT11$3,935+81%$2,666 – $5,068
South Dakota SD16$3,603+66%$3,223 – $4,195
Illinois IL130$3,097+42%$1,525 – $4,401
California CA176$3,077+42%$1,809 – $5,118
Utah UT41$3,016+39%$2,264 – $3,351
Nebraska NE70$2,764+27%$1,906 – $3,602
Massachusetts MA40$2,649+22%$1,328 – $3,696
Virginia VA65$2,556+18%$1,273 – $3,853
Texas TX215$2,551+17%$1,368 – $4,400
North Dakota ND16$2,425+12%$2,301 – $3,088
Iowa IA71$2,395+10%$1,697 – $3,410
South Carolina SC51$2,390+10%$1,800 – $3,756
Pennsylvania PA113$2,370+9%$926 – $5,739
Connecticut CT21$2,318+7%$1,425 – $2,868
North Carolina NC85$2,316+7%$1,607 – $4,857
Ohio OH124$2,259+4%$1,383 – $3,091
Alaska AK12$2,237+3%$1,338 – $4,557
Idaho ID22$2,234+3%$1,810 – $5,145
New Hampshire NH18$2,212+2%$1,676 – $5,704
Wisconsin WI103$2,210+2%$946 – $2,983
Wyoming WY12$2,201+1%$775 – $2,892
Washington WA60$2,1670%$1,467 – $3,014
Colorado CO62$2,159−1%$1,320 – $2,808
Hawaii HI13$2,108−3%$1,686 – $2,454
Oregon OR43$2,099−3%$1,467 – $2,863
West Virginia WV34$2,069−5%$1,382 – $3,071
Nevada NV17$2,057−5%$1,496 – $2,278
Montana MT16$1,963−10%$1,733 – $2,864
New Mexico NM24$1,932−11%$1,306 – $2,864
Missouri MO72$1,922−12%$1,095 – $2,783
Michigan MI80$1,891−13%$1,391 – $3,500
Kentucky KY58$1,849−15%$1,096 – $3,305
Minnesota MN78$1,845−15%$753 – $3,157
Georgia GA88$1,708−21%$980 – $3,300
New York NY106$1,649−24%$935 – $3,316
Alabama AL37$1,612−26%$879 – $3,508
Arizona AZ46$1,577−27%$589 – $5,678
Rhode Island RI10$1,556−28%$855 – $2,225
Maine ME24$1,469−32%$773 – $2,482
Kansas KS70$1,350−38%$738 – $2,527
Indiana IN93$1,346−38%$820 – $2,412
Oklahoma OK52$1,270−42%$864 – $2,113
Mississippi MS44$1,228−44%$793 – $1,652
New Jersey NJ45$1,054−52%$875 – $1,809
Tennessee TN77$1,010−54%$586 – $2,283
Maryland MD36$943−57%$640 – $1,438
Louisiana LA51$898−59%$606 – $1,775
Arkansas AR21$880−60%$584 – $2,106
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 $2,174.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,195$2,134$1,036 – $4,019
Children’s62$3,028$2,125 – $4,322
Critical access674$2,224$1,210 – $3,218
Ownership
For-profit439$2,686$1,208 – $8,488
Government509$1,965$960 – $3,010
Non-profit1,983$2,152$1,074 – $3,543
System affiliation
Part of a system2,413$2,224$1,096 – $3,992
Independent528$1,904$946 – $3,104

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,736
Median cash price$2,174
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

2,009 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,234 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,290; most fall between $1,167 and $3,756.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,009 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
$796$1,377$2,234$3,380$5,081

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($796 vs $5,081).

Of the 2,226 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,009 gave a usable cash price; 119 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,941 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,276 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,941
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here209
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded121
Hospitals that filed this code3,276

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 Any Jt Lower Extrem W/Contrast Material|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 a leg joint with contrast (CPT 73722) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-73722-mri-of-a-leg-joint-with-contrast