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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Gallbladder X-ray after swallowed contrast

CPT 74290the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the gallbladder taken after the patient swallows a contrast agent that concentrates in the organ.

Hospitals typically charge $309 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 923 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $336. Most fall between $180 and $655 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
923
States
48
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 923 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
$124$195$309$536$1,029

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $1,029).

How the prices are spread

$73 – $100: 18 hospitals$73$100 – $138: 48 hospitals$138 – $189: 98 hospitals$138$189 – $260: 168 hospitals$260 – $357: 155 hospitals$260$357 – $490: 127 hospitals$490 – $672: 84 hospitals$490$672 – $924: 46 hospitals$924 – $1,268: 62 hospitals$924$1,268 – $1,742: 25 hospitals$1,268median $309price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (831 of 923 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$73$10018
$100$13848
$138$18998
$189$260168
$260$357155
$357$490127
$490$67284
$672$92446
$924$1,26862
$1,268$1,74225

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$179
Median cash price$309
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.72×

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 $309.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $249 across 32 hospitalsWA$249Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $202 across 10 hospitalsMN$202Illinois: median $324 across 39 hospitalsIL$324Wisconsin: median $318 across 19 hospitalsWI$318Michigan: median $241 across 13 hospitalsMI$241New York: median $211 across 52 hospitalsNY$211Massachusetts: median $456 across 11 hospitalsMA$456Oregon: median $504 across 22 hospitalsOR$504Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $274 across 19 hospitalsIA$274Indiana: median $216 across 11 hospitalsIN$216Ohio: median $297 across 30 hospitalsOH$297Pennsylvania: median $428 across 45 hospitalsPA$428New Jersey: median $197 across 22 hospitalsNJ$197Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $484 across 110 hospitalsCA$484Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $339 across 25 hospitalsCO$339Nebraska: median $251 across 11 hospitalsNE$251Missouri: median $445 across 13 hospitalsMO$445Kentucky: median $308 across 29 hospitalsKY$308West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $228 across 27 hospitalsAZ$228New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $313 across 11 hospitalsKS$313Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $148 across 22 hospitalsTN$148North Carolina: median $222 across 28 hospitalsNC$222South Carolina: median $145 across 10 hospitalsSC$145Oklahoma: median $274 across 19 hospitalsOK$274Louisiana: median $166 across 14 hospitalsLA$166Mississippi: median $124 across 13 hospitalsMS$124Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $350 across 19 hospitalsGA$350Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $269 across 83 hospitalsTX$269Florida: median $581 across 73 hospitalsFL$581
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $309. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL73$581+88%$200 – $2,172
Oregon OR22$504+63%$218 – $512
California CA110$484+57%$266 – $1,025
Massachusetts MA11$456+48%$225 – $864
Missouri MO13$445+44%$263 – $445
Pennsylvania PA45$428+39%$180 – $1,049
Georgia GA19$350+13%$350 – $406
Colorado CO25$339+10%$199 – $629
Illinois IL39$324+5%$166 – $557
Wisconsin WI19$318+3%$318 – $413
Kansas KS11$313+1%$172 – $459
Kentucky KY29$3080%$177 – $893
Ohio OH30$297−4%$175 – $437
Iowa IA19$274−11%$31 – $331
Oklahoma OK19$274−11%$162 – $506
Texas TX83$269−13%$186 – $846
Nebraska NE11$251−19%$142 – $439
Washington WA32$249−19%$205 – $380
Michigan MI13$241−22%$173 – $642
Arizona AZ27$228−26%$189 – $1,002
North Carolina NC28$222−28%$205 – $266
Indiana IN11$216−30%$72 – $489
New York NY52$211−32%$163 – $476
Minnesota MN10$202−35%$190 – $202
New Jersey NJ22$197−36%$195 – $487
Louisiana LA14$166−46%$119 – $330
Tennessee TN22$148−52%$64 – $343
South Carolina SC10$145−53%$117 – $250
Mississippi MS13$124−60%$102 – $164
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $309.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care762$316$185 – $773
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access142$294$176 – $492
Ownership
For-profit155$455$186 – $1,590
Government103$247$167 – $432
Non-profit664$301$179 – $581
System affiliation
Part of a system784$312$186 – $719
Independent139$303$172 – $506

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$568
Median cash price$309
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

621 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $339 and the average of the middle 60% is $350; most fall between $186 and $620.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 621 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
$130$200$339$541$1,025

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($130 vs $1,025).

Of the 705 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 621 gave a usable cash price; 59 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

923 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,047 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted923
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here93
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 — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code1,047

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 Cholecystography Oral Contrst|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, “Gallbladder X-ray after swallowed contrast (CPT 74290) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74290-gallbladder-x-ray-after-swallowed-contrast