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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Abdominal X-ray series with chest X-ray

CPT 74022the billing code this page is about

Plain X-ray imaging of the abdomen from several angles together with a single-view chest X-ray.

Hospitals typically charge $361 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,134 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $378. Most fall between $189 and $621 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,134
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 3,134 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
$131$223$361$552$932

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $932).

How the prices are spread

$98 – $128: 150 hospitals$98$128 – $166: 227 hospitals$166 – $217: 228 hospitals$166$217 – $282: 290 hospitals$282 – $367: 541 hospitals$282$367 – $479: 509 hospitals$479 – $623: 411 hospitals$479$623 – $812: 230 hospitals$812 – $1,057: 123 hospitals$812$1,057 – $1,377: 115 hospitals$1,057median $361price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,824 of 3,134 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$98$128150
$128$166227
$166$217228
$217$282290
$282$367541
$367$479509
$479$623411
$623$812230
$812$1,057123
$1,057$1,377115

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$361
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.4×

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 $361.

Alaska: median $578 across 17 hospitalsAK$578Maine: median $279 across 25 hospitalsME$279Vermont: median $782 across 12 hospitalsVT$782New Hampshire: median $347 across 20 hospitalsNH$347Washington: median $380 across 69 hospitalsWA$380Idaho: median $429 across 21 hospitalsID$429Montana: median $255 across 20 hospitalsMT$255North Dakota: median $206 across 32 hospitalsND$206Minnesota: median $309 across 61 hospitalsMN$309Illinois: median $476 across 119 hospitalsIL$476Wisconsin: median $314 across 97 hospitalsWI$314Michigan: median $257 across 79 hospitalsMI$257New York: median $275 across 90 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $449 across 41 hospitalsMA$449Oregon: median $373 across 45 hospitalsOR$373Nevada: median $525 across 21 hospitalsNV$525Wyoming: median $373 across 14 hospitalsWY$373South Dakota: median $675 across 25 hospitalsSD$675Iowa: median $312 across 78 hospitalsIA$312Indiana: median $333 across 88 hospitalsIN$333Ohio: median $419 across 143 hospitalsOH$419Pennsylvania: median $344 across 112 hospitalsPA$344New Jersey: median $146 across 57 hospitalsNJ$146Connecticut: median $386 across 20 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: median $288 across 10 hospitalsRI$288California: median $530 across 212 hospitalsCA$530Utah: median $459 across 40 hospitalsUT$459Colorado: median $372 across 64 hospitalsCO$372Nebraska: median $487 across 76 hospitalsNE$487Missouri: median $348 across 74 hospitalsMO$348Kentucky: median $427 across 64 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $303 across 42 hospitalsWV$303Virginia: median $438 across 71 hospitalsVA$438Maryland: median $256 across 40 hospitalsMD$256Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $208 across 52 hospitalsAZ$208New Mexico: median $358 across 28 hospitalsNM$358Kansas: median $363 across 82 hospitalsKS$363Arkansas: median $186 across 37 hospitalsAR$186Tennessee: median $201 across 76 hospitalsTN$201North Carolina: median $414 across 95 hospitalsNC$414South Carolina: median $543 across 49 hospitalsSC$543Oklahoma: median $298 across 68 hospitalsOK$298Louisiana: median $200 across 48 hospitalsLA$200Mississippi: median $181 across 46 hospitalsMS$181Alabama: median $287 across 41 hospitalsAL$287Georgia: median $347 across 109 hospitalsGA$347Hawaii: median $436 across 19 hospitalsHI$436Texas: median $427 across 224 hospitalsTX$427Florida: median $690 across 155 hospitalsFL$690
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $361. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$782+116%$570 – $1,015
Florida FL155$690+91%$380 – $2,862
South Dakota SD25$675+87%$513 – $787
Alaska AK17$578+60%$343 – $1,038
South Carolina SC49$543+50%$200 – $557
California CA212$530+47%$258 – $1,172
Nevada NV21$525+45%$278 – $827
Nebraska NE76$487+35%$349 – $603
Illinois IL119$476+32%$218 – $676
Utah UT40$459+27%$435 – $538
Massachusetts MA41$449+24%$242 – $735
Virginia VA71$438+21%$266 – $871
Hawaii HI19$436+21%$336 – $495
Idaho ID21$429+19%$228 – $441
Kentucky KY64$427+18%$203 – $739
Texas TX224$427+18%$270 – $1,087
Ohio OH143$419+16%$266 – $506
North Carolina NC95$414+15%$280 – $548
Connecticut CT20$386+7%$223 – $554
Washington WA69$380+5%$282 – $515
Wyoming WY14$373+3%$125 – $538
Oregon OR45$373+3%$186 – $456
Colorado CO64$372+3%$288 – $508
Kansas KS82$3630%$276 – $564
New Mexico NM28$358−1%$260 – $561
Missouri MO74$348−4%$200 – $532
Georgia GA109$347−4%$143 – $596
New Hampshire NH20$347−4%$229 – $685
Pennsylvania PA112$344−5%$131 – $694
Indiana IN88$333−8%$212 – $497
Wisconsin WI97$314−13%$153 – $472
Iowa IA78$312−14%$234 – $367
Minnesota MN61$309−14%$139 – $385
West Virginia WV42$303−16%$204 – $428
Oklahoma OK68$298−17%$200 – $453
Rhode Island RI10$288−20%$149 – $349
Alabama AL41$287−21%$141 – $605
Maine ME25$279−23%$117 – $621
New York NY90$275−24%$126 – $529
Michigan MI79$257−29%$151 – $495
Maryland MD40$256−29%$191 – $322
Montana MT20$255−29%$180 – $372
Arizona AZ52$208−42%$142 – $702
North Dakota ND32$206−43%$156 – $300
Tennessee TN76$201−44%$99 – $399
Louisiana LA48$200−45%$111 – $314
Arkansas AR37$186−48%$152 – $318
Mississippi MS46$181−50%$102 – $255
New Jersey NJ57$146−60%$118 – $385
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 $361.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,233$372$183 – $668
Children’s61$469$325 – $719
Critical access830$347$198 – $533
Ownership
For-profit458$482$209 – $1,648
Government560$336$166 – $515
Non-profit2,106$354$191 – $594
System affiliation
Part of a system2,578$372$196 – $640
Independent556$329$160 – $522

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$612
Median cash price$361
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

2,165 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $384 and the average of the middle 60% is $395; most fall between $207 and $623.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,165 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
$138$245$384$557$875

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($138 vs $875).

Of the 2,412 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,165 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 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,134 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,482 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,134
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here233
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 — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,482

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 Complete Acute Abdomen Series|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, “Abdominal X-ray series with chest X-ray (CPT 74022) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74022-abdominal-x-ray-series-with-chest-x-ray