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Procedure price report · Intraoperative cholangiogram

Bile duct X-ray during surgery

CPT 74300the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging and interpretation of the bile ducts performed while an operation is in progress, using contrast injected into the duct system; covers the first study.

Hospitals typically charge $520 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,679 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $543. Most fall between $244 and $962 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,679
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 2,679 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
$132$285$520$849$1,611

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($132 vs $1,611).

How the prices are spread

$87 – $120: 104 hospitals$87$120 – $166: 114 hospitals$166 – $231: 146 hospitals$166$231 – $320: 296 hospitals$320 – $443: 339 hospitals$320$443 – $614: 436 hospitals$614 – $851: 448 hospitals$614$851 – $1,179: 283 hospitals$1,179 – $1,634: 143 hospitals$1,179$1,634 – $2,265: 104 hospitals$1,634median $520price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,413 of 2,679 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$87$120104
$120$166114
$166$231146
$231$320296
$320$443339
$443$614436
$614$851448
$851$1,179283
$1,179$1,634143
$1,634$2,265104

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $520.

Alaska: median $664 across 12 hospitalsAK$664Maine: median $401 across 24 hospitalsME$401Vermont: median $1,112 across 11 hospitalsVT$1,112New Hampshire: median $496 across 17 hospitalsNH$496Washington: median $546 across 59 hospitalsWA$546Idaho: median $617 across 21 hospitalsID$617Montana: median $406 across 11 hospitalsMT$406North Dakota: median $252 across 17 hospitalsND$252Minnesota: median $341 across 73 hospitalsMN$341Illinois: median $656 across 114 hospitalsIL$656Wisconsin: median $356 across 98 hospitalsWI$356Michigan: median $313 across 70 hospitalsMI$313New York: median $355 across 70 hospitalsNY$355Massachusetts: median $454 across 38 hospitalsMA$454Oregon: median $515 across 37 hospitalsOR$515Nevada: median $554 across 15 hospitalsNV$554Wyoming: median $458 across 12 hospitalsWY$458South Dakota: median $1,143 across 21 hospitalsSD$1,143Iowa: median $547 across 78 hospitalsIA$547Indiana: median $490 across 73 hospitalsIN$490Ohio: median $627 across 133 hospitalsOH$627Pennsylvania: median $468 across 90 hospitalsPA$468New Jersey: median $246 across 37 hospitalsNJ$246Connecticut: median $508 across 16 hospitalsCT$508Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $765 across 190 hospitalsCA$765Utah: median $690 across 38 hospitalsUT$690Colorado: median $782 across 49 hospitalsCO$782Nebraska: median $598 across 64 hospitalsNE$598Missouri: median $451 across 61 hospitalsMO$451Kentucky: median $533 across 52 hospitalsKY$533West Virginia: median $390 across 27 hospitalsWV$390Virginia: median $475 across 61 hospitalsVA$475Maryland: median $92 across 25 hospitalsMD$92Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $420 across 48 hospitalsAZ$420New Mexico: median $613 across 25 hospitalsNM$613Kansas: median $376 across 57 hospitalsKS$376Arkansas: median $227 across 25 hospitalsAR$227Tennessee: median $290 across 63 hospitalsTN$290North Carolina: median $493 across 86 hospitalsNC$493South Carolina: median $700 across 44 hospitalsSC$700Oklahoma: median $384 across 48 hospitalsOK$384Louisiana: median $222 across 39 hospitalsLA$222Mississippi: median $193 across 44 hospitalsMS$193Alabama: median $378 across 31 hospitalsAL$378Georgia: median $479 across 84 hospitalsGA$479Hawaii: median $652 across 13 hospitalsHI$652Texas: median $602 across 203 hospitalsTX$602Florida: median $1,057 across 146 hospitalsFL$1,057
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $520. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD21$1,143+120%$829 – $1,343
Vermont VT11$1,112+114%$399 – $1,607
Florida FL146$1,057+103%$558 – $3,814
Colorado CO49$782+50%$405 – $2,288
California CA190$765+47%$400 – $1,697
South Carolina SC44$700+35%$618 – $1,024
Utah UT38$690+33%$690 – $950
Alaska AK12$664+28%$155 – $1,431
Illinois IL114$656+26%$329 – $1,001
Hawaii HI13$652+25%$401 – $744
Ohio OH133$627+21%$383 – $811
Idaho ID21$617+19%$308 – $919
New Mexico NM25$613+18%$258 – $743
Texas TX203$602+16%$308 – $1,621
Nebraska NE64$598+15%$421 – $858
Nevada NV15$554+7%$81 – $1,039
Iowa IA78$547+5%$313 – $856
Washington WA59$546+5%$314 – $789
Kentucky KY52$533+3%$275 – $1,023
Oregon OR37$515−1%$269 – $581
Connecticut CT16$508−2%$310 – $960
New Hampshire NH17$496−5%$337 – $1,516
North Carolina NC86$493−5%$303 – $649
Indiana IN73$490−6%$83 – $713
Georgia GA84$479−8%$272 – $1,218
Virginia VA61$475−9%$297 – $962
Pennsylvania PA90$468−10%$196 – $1,027
Wyoming WY12$458−12%$262 – $778
Massachusetts MA38$454−13%$87 – $676
Missouri MO61$451−13%$329 – $805
Arizona AZ48$420−19%$163 – $1,792
Montana MT11$406−22%$255 – $515
Maine ME24$401−23%$212 – $826
West Virginia WV27$390−25%$265 – $594
Oklahoma OK48$384−26%$242 – $667
Alabama AL31$378−27%$210 – $1,337
Kansas KS57$376−28%$210 – $547
Wisconsin WI98$356−32%$166 – $635
New York NY70$355−32%$139 – $945
Minnesota MN73$341−34%$89 – $651
Michigan MI70$313−40%$123 – $591
Tennessee TN63$290−44%$99 – $939
North Dakota ND17$252−52%$153 – $626
New Jersey NJ37$246−53%$125 – $1,376
Arkansas AR25$227−56%$128 – $433
Louisiana LA39$222−57%$109 – $481
Mississippi MS44$193−63%$140 – $316
Maryland MD25$92−82%$69 – $127
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $520.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,019$555$256 – $1,057
Children’s31$495$314 – $920
Critical access622$457$197 – $770
Ownership
For-profit402$757$313 – $2,468
Government428$457$226 – $773
Non-profit1,842$504$237 – $909
System affiliation
Part of a system2,244$546$258 – $1,022
Independent435$419$171 – $780

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$853
Median cash price$520
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

1,917 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $536 and the average of the middle 60% is $539; most fall between $252 and $920.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,917 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
$143$291$536$825$1,335

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $1,335).

Of the 2,153 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,917 gave a usable cash price; 131 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,679 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (68%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,078 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,679
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded164
Hospitals that filed this code3,078

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Intraoperative cholangiogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cholangiography&/Pancreatography Ntraop Rs&I|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, “Bile duct X-ray during surgery (CPT 74300) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74300-bile-duct-x-ray-during-surgery