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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the abdomen, one view

CPT 74018the billing code this page is about

A single plain X-ray picture of the abdomen.

Hospitals typically charge $221 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,366 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $228. Most fall between $114 and $370 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,366
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 3,366 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
$84$133$221$338$545

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($84 vs $545).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $77: 119 hospitals$59$77 – $101: 245 hospitals$101 – $132: 294 hospitals$101$132 – $173: 408 hospitals$173 – $226: 490 hospitals$173$226 – $296: 543 hospitals$296 – $387: 452 hospitals$296$387 – $506: 284 hospitals$506 – $662: 100 hospitals$506$662 – $867: 96 hospitals$662median $221price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,031 of 3,366 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$77119
$77$101245
$101$132294
$132$173408
$173$226490
$226$296543
$296$387452
$387$506284
$506$662100
$662$86796

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$221
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $221.

Alaska: median $333 across 17 hospitalsAK$333Maine: median $177 across 25 hospitalsME$177Vermont: median $397 across 12 hospitalsVT$397New Hampshire: median $201 across 22 hospitalsNH$201Washington: median $222 across 70 hospitalsWA$222Idaho: median $233 across 22 hospitalsID$233Montana: median $175 across 20 hospitalsMT$175North Dakota: median $124 across 34 hospitalsND$124Minnesota: median $172 across 100 hospitalsMN$172Illinois: median $269 across 126 hospitalsIL$269Wisconsin: median $185 across 109 hospitalsWI$185Michigan: median $169 across 86 hospitalsMI$169New York: median $184 across 114 hospitalsNY$184Massachusetts: median $270 across 54 hospitalsMA$270Oregon: median $240 across 46 hospitalsOR$240Nevada: median $343 across 21 hospitalsNV$343Wyoming: median $170 across 14 hospitalsWY$170South Dakota: median $371 across 43 hospitalsSD$371Iowa: median $179 across 88 hospitalsIA$179Indiana: median $194 across 95 hospitalsIN$194Ohio: median $243 across 144 hospitalsOH$243Pennsylvania: median $215 across 116 hospitalsPA$215New Jersey: median $111 across 58 hospitalsNJ$111Connecticut: median $248 across 22 hospitalsCT$248Rhode Island: median $222 across 10 hospitalsRI$222California: median $306 across 218 hospitalsCA$306Utah: median $275 across 41 hospitalsUT$275Colorado: median $238 across 66 hospitalsCO$238Nebraska: median $286 across 84 hospitalsNE$286Missouri: median $206 across 77 hospitalsMO$206Kentucky: median $280 across 67 hospitalsKY$280West Virginia: median $185 across 43 hospitalsWV$185Virginia: median $256 across 71 hospitalsVA$256Maryland: median $145 across 39 hospitalsMD$145Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $127 across 53 hospitalsAZ$127New Mexico: median $197 across 30 hospitalsNM$197Kansas: median $192 across 88 hospitalsKS$192Arkansas: median $99 across 38 hospitalsAR$99Tennessee: median $137 across 78 hospitalsTN$137North Carolina: median $224 across 96 hospitalsNC$224South Carolina: median $309 across 53 hospitalsSC$309Oklahoma: median $175 across 70 hospitalsOK$175Louisiana: median $137 across 55 hospitalsLA$137Mississippi: median $118 across 48 hospitalsMS$118Alabama: median $145 across 42 hospitalsAL$145Georgia: median $215 across 107 hospitalsGA$215Hawaii: median $224 across 19 hospitalsHI$224Texas: median $339 across 238 hospitalsTX$339Florida: median $494 across 171 hospitalsFL$494
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $221. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL171$494+123%$230 – $1,480
Vermont VT12$397+80%$365 – $548
South Dakota SD43$371+68%$307 – $513
Nevada NV21$343+55%$99 – $449
Texas TX238$339+53%$167 – $706
Alaska AK17$333+51%$196 – $577
South Carolina SC53$309+40%$157 – $397
California CA218$306+38%$160 – $569
Nebraska NE84$286+29%$201 – $349
Kentucky KY67$280+27%$155 – $354
Utah UT41$275+24%$234 – $306
Massachusetts MA54$270+22%$165 – $397
Illinois IL126$269+22%$127 – $424
Virginia VA71$256+16%$122 – $620
Connecticut CT22$248+12%$134 – $332
Ohio OH144$243+10%$163 – $321
Oregon OR46$240+9%$121 – $294
Colorado CO66$238+8%$167 – $329
Idaho ID22$233+6%$160 – $365
North Carolina NC96$224+2%$179 – $301
Hawaii HI19$224+1%$178 – $295
Rhode Island RI10$2220%$97 – $286
Washington WA70$2220%$139 – $304
Pennsylvania PA116$215−3%$105 – $436
Georgia GA107$215−3%$80 – $388
Missouri MO77$206−7%$105 – $309
New Hampshire NH22$201−9%$158 – $335
New Mexico NM30$197−11%$128 – $256
Indiana IN95$194−12%$86 – $275
Kansas KS88$192−13%$136 – $287
Wisconsin WI109$185−16%$86 – $303
West Virginia WV43$185−17%$123 – $333
New York NY114$184−17%$85 – $344
Iowa IA88$179−19%$136 – $244
Maine ME25$177−20%$94 – $338
Oklahoma OK70$175−21%$117 – $261
Montana MT20$175−21%$110 – $238
Minnesota MN100$172−22%$100 – $262
Wyoming WY14$170−23%$72 – $317
Michigan MI86$169−24%$94 – $280
Maryland MD39$145−34%$97 – $201
Alabama AL42$145−34%$87 – $238
Tennessee TN78$137−38%$66 – $255
Louisiana LA55$137−38%$85 – $213
Arizona AZ53$127−42%$85 – $411
North Dakota ND34$124−44%$93 – $203
Mississippi MS48$118−47%$69 – $150
New Jersey NJ58$111−50%$96 – $215
Arkansas AR38$99−55%$47 – $183
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 $221.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,365$230$111 – $406
Children’s71$272$172 – $398
Critical access920$206$116 – $325
Ownership
For-profit490$291$134 – $1,011
Government609$203$104 – $303
Non-profit2,257$218$115 – $359
System affiliation
Part of a system2,762$230$119 – $395
Independent604$193$95 – $319

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$373
Median cash price$221
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

2,318 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $238 and the average of the middle 60% is $240; most fall between $125 and $370.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,318 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
$85$145$238$343$487

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $487).

Of the 2,571 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,318 gave a usable cash price; 142 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

3,366 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,735 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,366
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here244
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 — excluded124
Hospitals that filed this code3,735

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 Exam Abdomen 1 View|TECHNICAL 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 abdomen, one view (CPT 74018) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74018-x-ray-of-the-abdomen-one-view