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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of the abdomen, two views

CPT 74019the billing code this page is about

Plain X-ray imaging of the abdomen taken from two different angles.

Hospitals typically charge $281 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $292. Most fall between $149 and $477 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,324
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 3,324 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
$105$174$281$424$699

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $699).

How the prices are spread

$79 – $103: 146 hospitals$79$103 – $134: 229 hospitals$134 – $174: 297 hospitals$134$174 – $227: 401 hospitals$227 – $296: 513 hospitals$227$296 – $386: 538 hospitals$386 – $502: 420 hospitals$386$502 – $655: 236 hospitals$655 – $853: 120 hospitals$655$853 – $1,112: 92 hospitals$853median $281price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,992 of 3,324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$79$103146
$103$134229
$134$174297
$174$227401
$227$296513
$296$386538
$386$502420
$502$655236
$655$853120
$853$1,11292

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$281
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $281.

Alaska: median $406 across 17 hospitalsAK$406Maine: median $244 across 25 hospitalsME$244Vermont: median $578 across 12 hospitalsVT$578New Hampshire: median $235 across 22 hospitalsNH$235Washington: median $292 across 71 hospitalsWA$292Idaho: median $360 across 21 hospitalsID$360Montana: median $225 across 20 hospitalsMT$225North Dakota: median $165 across 34 hospitalsND$165Minnesota: median $226 across 100 hospitalsMN$226Illinois: median $353 across 126 hospitalsIL$353Wisconsin: median $247 across 109 hospitalsWI$247Michigan: median $194 across 83 hospitalsMI$194New York: median $173 across 106 hospitalsNY$173Massachusetts: median $373 across 52 hospitalsMA$373Oregon: median $293 across 46 hospitalsOR$293Nevada: median $383 across 20 hospitalsNV$383Wyoming: median $278 across 14 hospitalsWY$278South Dakota: median $506 across 43 hospitalsSD$506Iowa: median $251 across 87 hospitalsIA$251Indiana: median $270 across 91 hospitalsIN$270Ohio: median $309 across 144 hospitalsOH$309Pennsylvania: median $265 across 116 hospitalsPA$265New Jersey: median $125 across 57 hospitalsNJ$125Connecticut: median $306 across 22 hospitalsCT$306Rhode Island: median $286 across 10 hospitalsRI$286California: median $431 across 215 hospitalsCA$431Utah: median $360 across 42 hospitalsUT$360Colorado: median $317 across 65 hospitalsCO$317Nebraska: median $363 across 82 hospitalsNE$363Missouri: median $273 across 74 hospitalsMO$273Kentucky: median $320 across 67 hospitalsKY$320West Virginia: median $221 across 43 hospitalsWV$221Virginia: median $308 across 71 hospitalsVA$308Maryland: median $214 across 39 hospitalsMD$214Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $160 across 52 hospitalsAZ$160New Mexico: median $200 across 27 hospitalsNM$200Kansas: median $236 across 84 hospitalsKS$236Arkansas: median $103 across 37 hospitalsAR$103Tennessee: median $160 across 77 hospitalsTN$160North Carolina: median $256 across 95 hospitalsNC$256South Carolina: median $354 across 53 hospitalsSC$354Oklahoma: median $229 across 70 hospitalsOK$229Louisiana: median $185 across 55 hospitalsLA$185Mississippi: median $139 across 49 hospitalsMS$139Alabama: median $213 across 42 hospitalsAL$213Georgia: median $257 across 106 hospitalsGA$257Hawaii: median $252 across 19 hospitalsHI$252Texas: median $378 across 234 hospitalsTX$378Florida: median $640 across 172 hospitalsFL$640
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $281. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$640+128%$276 – $2,452
Vermont VT12$578+105%$442 – $785
South Dakota SD43$506+80%$409 – $670
California CA215$431+53%$228 – $855
Alaska AK17$406+44%$174 – $719
Nevada NV20$383+36%$144 – $687
Texas TX234$378+34%$233 – $851
Massachusetts MA52$373+32%$253 – $507
Nebraska NE82$363+29%$260 – $437
Idaho ID21$360+28%$224 – $441
Utah UT42$360+28%$280 – $432
South Carolina SC53$354+26%$217 – $562
Illinois IL126$353+26%$178 – $532
Kentucky KY67$320+14%$174 – $443
Colorado CO65$317+13%$205 – $414
Ohio OH144$309+10%$217 – $477
Virginia VA71$308+9%$202 – $592
Connecticut CT22$306+9%$215 – $412
Oregon OR46$293+4%$150 – $324
Washington WA71$292+4%$176 – $391
Rhode Island RI10$286+1%$149 – $384
Wyoming WY14$278−1%$91 – $458
Missouri MO74$273−3%$177 – $417
Indiana IN91$270−4%$172 – $328
Pennsylvania PA116$265−6%$125 – $482
Georgia GA106$257−9%$109 – $506
North Carolina NC95$256−9%$201 – $399
Hawaii HI19$252−10%$208 – $367
Iowa IA87$251−11%$183 – $330
Wisconsin WI109$247−12%$101 – $333
Maine ME25$244−13%$114 – $460
Kansas KS84$236−16%$151 – $379
New Hampshire NH22$235−17%$206 – $642
Oklahoma OK70$229−19%$159 – $338
Minnesota MN100$226−20%$109 – $373
Montana MT20$225−20%$155 – $343
West Virginia WV43$221−22%$171 – $388
Maryland MD39$214−24%$155 – $273
Alabama AL42$213−24%$123 – $434
New Mexico NM27$200−29%$167 – $294
Michigan MI83$194−31%$135 – $345
Louisiana LA55$185−34%$92 – $234
New York NY106$173−39%$102 – $452
North Dakota ND34$165−41%$131 – $252
Tennessee TN77$160−43%$83 – $367
Arizona AZ52$160−43%$105 – $439
Mississippi MS49$139−51%$89 – $205
New Jersey NJ57$125−55%$109 – $243
Arkansas AR37$103−63%$61 – $221
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 $281.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,335$286$144 – $519
Children’s67$348$226 – $517
Critical access912$269$154 – $407
Ownership
For-profit474$404$176 – $1,275
Government602$259$140 – $390
Non-profit2,238$279$149 – $452
System affiliation
Part of a system2,739$287$157 – $494
Independent585$254$125 – $412

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$471
Median cash price$281
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

2,289 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $300 and the average of the middle 60% is $306; most fall between $162 and $484.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,289 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
$112$190$300$431$646

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($112 vs $646).

Of the 2,544 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,289 gave a usable cash price; 145 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,324 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,688 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,324
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here241
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 — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,688

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 2 Views|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 abdomen, two views (CPT 74019) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74019-x-ray-of-the-abdomen-two-views