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Procedure price report · CT scan abdomen

CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis without contrast

CPT 74176the billing code this page is about

Computed tomography imaging covering both the abdomen and the pelvis, performed without any contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $2,075 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,356 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,157. Most fall between $879 and $3,803 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,356
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 3,356 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
$497$1,098$2,075$3,399$5,537

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($497 vs $5,537).

How the prices are spread

$304 – $425: 124 hospitals$304$425 – $595: 148 hospitals$595 – $833: 193 hospitals$595$833 – $1,166: 263 hospitals$1,166 – $1,633: 425 hospitals$1,166$1,633 – $2,285: 521 hospitals$2,285 – $3,199: 571 hospitals$2,285$3,199 – $4,478: 458 hospitals$4,478 – $6,268: 213 hospitals$4,478$6,268 – $8,774: 106 hospitals$6,268median $2,075price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,022 of 3,356 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$304$425124
$425$595148
$595$833193
$833$1,166263
$1,166$1,633425
$1,633$2,285521
$2,285$3,199571
$3,199$4,478458
$4,478$6,268213
$6,268$8,774106

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$2,075
Cash as a multiple of Medicare8.5×

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 $2,075.

Alaska: median $2,639 across 17 hospitalsAK$2,639Maine: median $1,228 across 25 hospitalsME$1,228Vermont: median $3,113 across 12 hospitalsVT$3,113New Hampshire: median $2,244 across 22 hospitalsNH$2,244Washington: median $1,976 across 70 hospitalsWA$1,976Idaho: median $1,777 across 22 hospitalsID$1,777Montana: median $1,997 across 19 hospitalsMT$1,997North Dakota: median $1,301 across 32 hospitalsND$1,301Minnesota: median $1,676 across 100 hospitalsMN$1,676Illinois: median $3,404 across 136 hospitalsIL$3,404Wisconsin: median $1,853 across 109 hospitalsWI$1,853Michigan: median $1,760 across 86 hospitalsMI$1,760New York: median $942 across 106 hospitalsNY$942Massachusetts: median $1,614 across 53 hospitalsMA$1,614Oregon: median $1,630 across 46 hospitalsOR$1,630Nevada: median $2,280 across 21 hospitalsNV$2,280Wyoming: median $2,806 across 14 hospitalsWY$2,806South Dakota: median $4,414 across 43 hospitalsSD$4,414Iowa: median $2,718 across 88 hospitalsIA$2,718Indiana: median $885 across 94 hospitalsIN$885Ohio: median $1,744 across 142 hospitalsOH$1,744Pennsylvania: median $1,431 across 114 hospitalsPA$1,431New Jersey: median $498 across 58 hospitalsNJ$498Connecticut: median $1,278 across 22 hospitalsCT$1,278Rhode Island: median $1,309 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,309California: median $2,925 across 217 hospitalsCA$2,925Utah: median $2,808 across 43 hospitalsUT$2,808Colorado: median $2,291 across 67 hospitalsCO$2,291Nebraska: median $3,754 across 84 hospitalsNE$3,754Missouri: median $1,926 across 75 hospitalsMO$1,926Kentucky: median $2,130 across 67 hospitalsKY$2,130West Virginia: median $1,500 across 42 hospitalsWV$1,500Virginia: median $2,201 across 71 hospitalsVA$2,201Maryland: median $160 across 36 hospitalsMD$160Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,298 across 53 hospitalsAZ$1,298New Mexico: median $2,592 across 30 hospitalsNM$2,592Kansas: median $1,258 across 87 hospitalsKS$1,258Arkansas: median $761 across 38 hospitalsAR$761Tennessee: median $1,408 across 78 hospitalsTN$1,408North Carolina: median $2,807 across 95 hospitalsNC$2,807South Carolina: median $2,937 across 53 hospitalsSC$2,937Oklahoma: median $1,360 across 71 hospitalsOK$1,360Louisiana: median $1,196 across 54 hospitalsLA$1,196Mississippi: median $1,244 across 49 hospitalsMS$1,244Alabama: median $1,956 across 40 hospitalsAL$1,956Georgia: median $1,762 across 105 hospitalsGA$1,762Hawaii: median $1,971 across 17 hospitalsHI$1,971Texas: median $3,356 across 246 hospitalsTX$3,356Florida: median $4,961 across 171 hospitalsFL$4,961
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,075. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL171$4,961+139%$1,753 – $18,870
South Dakota SD43$4,414+113%$3,567 – $6,278
Nebraska NE84$3,754+81%$2,357 – $4,655
Illinois IL136$3,404+64%$1,600 – $4,802
Texas TX246$3,356+62%$1,430 – $6,371
Vermont VT12$3,113+50%$2,051 – $4,159
South Carolina SC53$2,937+42%$1,800 – $4,095
California CA217$2,925+41%$1,356 – $6,028
Utah UT43$2,808+35%$2,444 – $3,090
North Carolina NC95$2,807+35%$1,870 – $4,109
Wyoming WY14$2,806+35%$851 – $3,561
Iowa IA88$2,718+31%$1,978 – $3,327
Alaska AK17$2,639+27%$1,410 – $5,210
New Mexico NM30$2,592+25%$1,179 – $4,000
Colorado CO67$2,291+10%$1,157 – $4,113
Nevada NV21$2,280+10%$704 – $3,422
New Hampshire NH22$2,244+8%$1,248 – $4,847
Virginia VA71$2,201+6%$1,103 – $4,530
Kentucky KY67$2,130+3%$971 – $3,797
Montana MT19$1,997−4%$1,730 – $2,518
Washington WA70$1,976−5%$1,148 – $2,933
Hawaii HI17$1,971−5%$1,109 – $2,124
Alabama AL40$1,956−6%$1,066 – $3,324
Missouri MO75$1,926−7%$1,231 – $2,814
Wisconsin WI109$1,853−11%$562 – $2,940
Idaho ID22$1,777−14%$1,252 – $1,857
Georgia GA105$1,762−15%$971 – $3,881
Michigan MI86$1,760−15%$670 – $3,485
Ohio OH142$1,744−16%$1,084 – $2,419
Minnesota MN100$1,676−19%$550 – $2,819
Oregon OR46$1,630−21%$1,425 – $2,929
Massachusetts MA53$1,614−22%$840 – $2,700
West Virginia WV42$1,500−28%$983 – $3,087
Pennsylvania PA114$1,431−31%$314 – $3,676
Tennessee TN78$1,408−32%$532 – $2,861
Oklahoma OK71$1,360−34%$921 – $2,300
Rhode Island RI10$1,309−37%$503 – $1,835
North Dakota ND32$1,301−37%$1,108 – $2,314
Arizona AZ53$1,298−37%$420 – $4,748
Connecticut CT22$1,278−38%$726 – $1,951
Kansas KS87$1,258−39%$686 – $2,331
Mississippi MS49$1,244−40%$806 – $1,891
Maine ME25$1,228−41%$700 – $1,806
Louisiana LA54$1,196−42%$451 – $2,194
New York NY106$942−55%$419 – $2,970
Indiana IN94$885−57%$542 – $2,303
Arkansas AR38$761−63%$384 – $2,263
New Jersey NJ58$498−76%$285 – $1,025
Maryland MD36$160−92%$130 – $219
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 $2,075.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,355$2,017$772 – $4,040
Children’s63$2,944$1,934 – $4,272
Critical access928$2,119$1,084 – $3,416
Ownership
For-profit486$3,324$1,221 – $12,136
Government605$1,948$878 – $3,325
Non-profit2,255$1,948$804 – $3,538
System affiliation
Part of a system2,763$2,138$898 – $3,977
Independent593$1,798$785 – $3,148

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,539
Median cash price$2,075
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

2,293 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,155 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,239; most fall between $1,014 and $3,788.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,293 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
$562$1,196$2,155$3,401$4,991

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($562 vs $4,991).

Of the 2,549 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,293 gave a usable cash price; 144 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 112 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,356 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 3,728 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,356
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here248
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 — excluded123
Hospitals that filed this code3,728

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 & Pelvis W/O 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, “CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis without contrast (CPT 74176) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74176-ct-scan-of-the-abdomen-and-pelvis-without-contrast