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Procedure price report · CT scan abdomen

CT scan of the abdomen, before and after contrast

CPT 74170the billing code this page is about

Computed tomography imaging of the abdomen taken first without contrast dye and then repeated after contrast is given.

Hospitals typically charge $1,846 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,327 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,897. Most fall between $855 and $3,240 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,327
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 3,327 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
$537$1,051$1,846$2,882$4,663

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($537 vs $4,663).

How the prices are spread

$284 – $395: 65 hospitals$284$395 – $550: 116 hospitals$550 – $766: 229 hospitals$550$766 – $1,067: 274 hospitals$1,067 – $1,486: 463 hospitals$1,067$1,486 – $2,070: 543 hospitals$2,070 – $2,882: 638 hospitals$2,070$2,882 – $4,014: 420 hospitals$4,014 – $5,591: 179 hospitals$4,014$5,591 – $7,786: 75 hospitals$5,591median $1,846price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,002 of 3,327 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$284$39565
$395$550116
$550$766229
$766$1,067274
$1,067$1,486463
$1,486$2,070543
$2,070$2,882638
$2,882$4,014420
$4,014$5,591179
$5,591$7,78675

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$179
Median cash price$1,846
Cash as a multiple of Medicare10.3×

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 $1,846.

Alaska: median $3,036 across 17 hospitalsAK$3,036Maine: median $1,209 across 25 hospitalsME$1,209Vermont: median $2,739 across 12 hospitalsVT$2,739New Hampshire: median $1,922 across 21 hospitalsNH$1,922Washington: median $1,907 across 69 hospitalsWA$1,907Idaho: median $1,187 across 22 hospitalsID$1,187Montana: median $1,735 across 19 hospitalsMT$1,735North Dakota: median $2,172 across 29 hospitalsND$2,172Minnesota: median $1,599 across 97 hospitalsMN$1,599Illinois: median $2,681 across 135 hospitalsIL$2,681Wisconsin: median $1,832 across 108 hospitalsWI$1,832Michigan: median $1,853 across 86 hospitalsMI$1,853New York: median $1,291 across 98 hospitalsNY$1,291Massachusetts: median $1,964 across 52 hospitalsMA$1,964Oregon: median $1,572 across 46 hospitalsOR$1,572Nevada: median $2,193 across 21 hospitalsNV$2,193Wyoming: median $1,483 across 14 hospitalsWY$1,483South Dakota: median $3,414 across 42 hospitalsSD$3,414Iowa: median $2,035 across 87 hospitalsIA$2,035Indiana: median $943 across 96 hospitalsIN$943Ohio: median $1,327 across 142 hospitalsOH$1,327Pennsylvania: median $1,424 across 113 hospitalsPA$1,424New Jersey: median $537 across 57 hospitalsNJ$537Connecticut: median $1,801 across 22 hospitalsCT$1,801Rhode Island: median $1,638 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,638California: median $2,597 across 216 hospitalsCA$2,597Utah: median $2,453 across 41 hospitalsUT$2,453Colorado: median $1,973 across 66 hospitalsCO$1,973Nebraska: median $3,060 across 83 hospitalsNE$3,060Missouri: median $1,577 across 76 hospitalsMO$1,577Kentucky: median $1,658 across 67 hospitalsKY$1,658West Virginia: median $1,396 across 41 hospitalsWV$1,396Virginia: median $1,876 across 71 hospitalsVA$1,876Maryland: median $262 across 37 hospitalsMD$262Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,507 across 53 hospitalsAZ$1,507New Mexico: median $2,126 across 30 hospitalsNM$2,126Kansas: median $1,275 across 83 hospitalsKS$1,275Arkansas: median $807 across 38 hospitalsAR$807Tennessee: median $963 across 77 hospitalsTN$963North Carolina: median $2,149 across 95 hospitalsNC$2,149South Carolina: median $2,120 across 53 hospitalsSC$2,120Oklahoma: median $1,400 across 71 hospitalsOK$1,400Louisiana: median $1,087 across 55 hospitalsLA$1,087Mississippi: median $1,100 across 49 hospitalsMS$1,100Alabama: median $1,372 across 41 hospitalsAL$1,372Georgia: median $1,534 across 109 hospitalsGA$1,534Hawaii: median $1,585 across 17 hospitalsHI$1,585Texas: median $2,722 across 240 hospitalsTX$2,722Florida: median $3,949 across 172 hospitalsFL$3,949
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,846. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$3,949+114%$1,595 – $13,534
South Dakota SD42$3,414+85%$2,774 – $3,915
Nebraska NE83$3,060+66%$2,080 – $3,645
Alaska AK17$3,036+64%$1,874 – $3,748
Vermont VT12$2,739+48%$1,226 – $3,913
Texas TX240$2,722+47%$1,355 – $5,230
Illinois IL135$2,681+45%$1,305 – $3,676
California CA216$2,597+41%$1,411 – $4,989
Utah UT41$2,453+33%$1,634 – $2,453
Nevada NV21$2,193+19%$1,329 – $3,790
North Dakota ND29$2,172+18%$1,644 – $2,922
North Carolina NC95$2,149+16%$1,352 – $3,082
New Mexico NM30$2,126+15%$1,566 – $3,123
South Carolina SC53$2,120+15%$1,282 – $3,432
Iowa IA87$2,035+10%$1,460 – $2,651
Colorado CO66$1,973+7%$1,290 – $3,234
Massachusetts MA52$1,964+6%$1,124 – $2,610
New Hampshire NH21$1,922+4%$1,384 – $4,183
Washington WA69$1,907+3%$1,234 – $2,567
Virginia VA71$1,876+2%$1,130 – $3,578
Michigan MI86$1,8530%$653 – $2,576
Wisconsin WI108$1,832−1%$649 – $2,366
Connecticut CT22$1,801−2%$821 – $2,475
Montana MT19$1,735−6%$1,317 – $2,245
Kentucky KY67$1,658−10%$821 – $2,836
Rhode Island RI10$1,638−11%$415 – $2,096
Minnesota MN97$1,599−13%$757 – $2,368
Hawaii HI17$1,585−14%$839 – $2,110
Missouri MO76$1,577−15%$1,063 – $2,411
Oregon OR46$1,572−15%$1,228 – $2,270
Georgia GA109$1,534−17%$971 – $3,118
Arizona AZ53$1,507−18%$443 – $7,786
Wyoming WY14$1,483−20%$699 – $3,009
Pennsylvania PA113$1,424−23%$318 – $3,476
Oklahoma OK71$1,400−24%$996 – $2,188
West Virginia WV41$1,396−24%$1,022 – $2,123
Alabama AL41$1,372−26%$801 – $2,435
Ohio OH142$1,327−28%$1,051 – $2,049
New York NY98$1,291−30%$219 – $2,975
Kansas KS83$1,275−31%$748 – $2,277
Maine ME25$1,209−34%$543 – $2,067
Idaho ID22$1,187−36%$1,003 – $1,863
Mississippi MS49$1,100−40%$672 – $1,397
Louisiana LA55$1,087−41%$503 – $1,718
Tennessee TN77$963−48%$617 – $2,170
Indiana IN96$943−49%$542 – $2,040
Arkansas AR38$807−56%$384 – $2,215
New Jersey NJ57$537−71%$210 – $1,151
Maryland MD37$262−86%$185 – $356
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 $1,846.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,346$1,821$781 – $3,357
Children’s61$2,448$1,829 – $4,663
Critical access910$1,899$1,033 – $2,938
Ownership
For-profit483$2,802$1,110 – $9,768
Government600$1,707$903 – $2,785
Non-profit2,234$1,808$804 – $2,974
System affiliation
Part of a system2,737$1,891$861 – $3,278
Independent590$1,622$836 – $2,833

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,099
Median cash price$1,846
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

2,268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,904 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,948; most fall between $954 and $3,193.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,268 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
$605$1,130$1,904$2,882$4,124

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($605 vs $4,124).

Of the 2,513 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,268 gave a usable cash price; 136 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,327 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 3,683 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,327
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here235
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 — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,683

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 CT scan abdomen family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CT Abdomen W/O Contrast Flwd by Contrast Matrl.

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, “CT scan of the abdomen, before and after contrast (CPT 74170) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74170-ct-scan-of-the-abdomen-before-and-after-contrast