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Procedure price report · CT scan abdomen

CT scan of the colon without contrast dye

CPT 74261the billing code this page is about

CT imaging of the colon with computer processing to create views of the bowel lining, done for a known or suspected problem and performed without injected contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $829 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,091 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $967. Most fall between $401 and $1,814 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,091
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 1,091 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
$196$478$829$1,610$2,394

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($196 vs $2,394).

How the prices are spread

$126 – $176: 43 hospitals$126$176 – $245: 34 hospitals$245 – $343: 59 hospitals$245$343 – $478: 87 hospitals$478 – $668: 157 hospitals$478$668 – $933: 142 hospitals$933 – $1,302: 132 hospitals$933$1,302 – $1,819: 174 hospitals$1,819 – $2,539: 125 hospitals$1,819$2,539 – $3,546: 35 hospitals$2,539median $829price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (988 of 1,091 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$126$17643
$176$24534
$245$34359
$343$47887
$478$668157
$668$933142
$933$1,302132
$1,302$1,819174
$1,819$2,539125
$2,539$3,54635

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$829
Cash as a multiple of Medicare7.8×

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 $829.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $728 across 29 hospitalsWA$728Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $873 across 30 hospitalsMN$873Illinois: median $1,140 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,140Wisconsin: median $1,396 across 62 hospitalsWI$1,396Michigan: median $1,050 across 36 hospitalsMI$1,050New York: median $472 across 50 hospitalsNY$472Massachusetts: median $1,334 across 22 hospitalsMA$1,334Oregon: median $1,161 across 21 hospitalsOR$1,161Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,176 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,176Indiana: median $496 across 49 hospitalsIN$496Ohio: median $1,110 across 66 hospitalsOH$1,110Pennsylvania: median $511 across 59 hospitalsPA$511New Jersey: median $140 across 26 hospitalsNJ$140Connecticut: median $889 across 12 hospitalsCT$889Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,560 across 85 hospitalsCA$1,560Utah: median $2,188 across 22 hospitalsUT$2,188Colorado: median $937 across 17 hospitalsCO$937Nebraska: median $1,224 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,224Missouri: median $673 across 13 hospitalsMO$673Kentucky: median $502 across 10 hospitalsKY$502West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $408 across 28 hospitalsVA$408Maryland: median $476 across 16 hospitalsMD$476Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $290 across 12 hospitalsAZ$290New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $560 across 15 hospitalsTN$560North Carolina: median $1,179 across 37 hospitalsNC$1,179South Carolina: median $1,424 across 33 hospitalsSC$1,424Oklahoma: median $196 across 10 hospitalsOK$196Louisiana: median $278 across 13 hospitalsLA$278Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $474 across 12 hospitalsAL$474Georgia: median $1,000 across 15 hospitalsGA$1,000Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $636 across 91 hospitalsTX$636Florida: median $952 across 57 hospitalsFL$952
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $829. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT22$2,188+164%$2,188 – $2,188
California CA85$1,560+88%$335 – $1,814
South Carolina SC33$1,424+72%$1,315 – $2,217
Wisconsin WI62$1,396+68%$988 – $2,296
Massachusetts MA22$1,334+61%$656 – $2,436
Nebraska NE17$1,224+48%$1,098 – $2,394
North Carolina NC37$1,179+42%$952 – $1,976
Iowa IA21$1,176+42%$283 – $1,592
Oregon OR21$1,161+40%$870 – $1,792
Illinois IL36$1,140+37%$478 – $3,577
Ohio OH66$1,110+34%$477 – $2,139
Michigan MI36$1,050+27%$553 – $2,284
Georgia GA15$1,000+21%$721 – $1,070
Florida FL57$952+15%$750 – $1,787
Colorado CO17$937+13%$686 – $1,300
Connecticut CT12$889+7%$525 – $1,813
Minnesota MN30$873+5%$679 – $2,281
Washington WA29$728−12%$566 – $1,158
Missouri MO13$673−19%$618 – $673
Texas TX91$636−23%$496 – $699
Tennessee TN15$560−33%$140 – $560
Pennsylvania PA59$511−38%$106 – $2,161
Kentucky KY10$502−40%$384 – $915
Indiana IN49$496−40%$252 – $797
Maryland MD16$476−43%$342 – $669
Alabama AL12$474−43%$474 – $1,084
New York NY50$472−43%$126 – $1,421
Virginia VA28$408−51%$322 – $560
Arizona AZ12$290−65%$200 – $1,533
Louisiana LA13$278−66%$116 – $614
Oklahoma OK10$196−76%$137 – $196
New Jersey NJ26$140−83%$118 – $1,510
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $829.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care947$797$374 – $1,814
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access132$1,223$542 – $2,188
Ownership
For-profit107$945$375 – $2,909
Government118$752$399 – $1,773
Non-profit861$847$408 – $1,814
System affiliation
Part of a system979$858$408 – $1,877
Independent112$752$302 – $1,465

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,550
Median cash price$829
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

845 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $937 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,037; most fall between $491 and $1,952.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 845 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
$304$549$937$1,787$2,396

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($304 vs $2,396).

Of the 928 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 845 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,091 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,202 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,091
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,202

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 September 4, 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 Colonogrphy Dx Image Postprocess W/O Contrast|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 colon without contrast dye (CPT 74261) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74261-ct-scan-of-the-colon-without-contrast-dye