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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray guided placement of an intestinal contrast tube

CPT 74355the billing code this page is about

Imaging guidance and interpretation for placing a tube through the skin or gut into the small intestine so contrast can be delivered directly for an enteroclysis study.

Hospitals typically charge $491 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 631 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $563. Most fall between $233 and $1,254 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
631
States
47
Filings dated
Nov 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 631 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
$108$252$491$1,009$1,713

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($108 vs $1,713).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $100: 24 hospitals$69$100 – $145: 22 hospitals$145 – $212: 34 hospitals$145$212 – $308: 79 hospitals$308 – $448: 96 hospitals$308$448 – $651: 95 hospitals$651 – $947: 79 hospitals$651$947 – $1,377: 55 hospitals$1,377 – $2,003: 60 hospitals$1,377$2,003 – $2,913: 25 hospitals$2,003median $491price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (569 of 631 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$10024
$100$14522
$145$21234
$212$30879
$308$44896
$448$65195
$651$94779
$947$1,37755
$1,377$2,00360
$2,003$2,91325

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $491.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $520 across 18 hospitalsWA$520Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $585 across 22 hospitalsIL$585Wisconsin: median $1,118 across 11 hospitalsWI$1,118Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $308 across 27 hospitalsNY$308Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $434 across 17 hospitalsIA$434Indiana: median $252 across 18 hospitalsIN$252Ohio: median $735 across 40 hospitalsOH$735Pennsylvania: median $301 across 28 hospitalsPA$301New Jersey: median $187 across 13 hospitalsNJ$187Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,484 across 75 hospitalsCA$1,484Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $693 across 11 hospitalsNE$693Missouri: median $667 across 14 hospitalsMO$667Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $461 across 22 hospitalsVA$461Maryland: median $90 across 10 hospitalsMD$90Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $291 across 21 hospitalsAZ$291New Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $146 across 12 hospitalsTN$146North Carolina: median $386 across 26 hospitalsNC$386South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $684 across 18 hospitalsGA$684Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $439 across 57 hospitalsTX$439Florida: median $1,009 across 49 hospitalsFL$1,009
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $491. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA75$1,484+202%$480 – $1,638
Wisconsin WI11$1,118+128%$1,118 – $1,177
Florida FL49$1,009+105%$347 – $1,572
Ohio OH40$735+50%$466 – $1,629
Nebraska NE11$693+41%$516 – $917
Georgia GA18$684+39%$332 – $684
Missouri MO14$667+36%$644 – $4,749
Illinois IL22$585+19%$294 – $623
Washington WA18$520+6%$433 – $709
Virginia VA22$461−6%$248 – $554
Texas TX57$439−11%$236 – $945
Iowa IA17$434−12%$83 – $693
North Carolina NC26$386−21%$244 – $435
New York NY27$308−37%$106 – $699
Pennsylvania PA28$301−39%$42 – $448
Arizona AZ21$291−41%$241 – $2,540
Indiana IN18$252−49%$217 – $357
New Jersey NJ13$187−62%$101 – $1,530
Tennessee TN12$146−70%$79 – $412
Maryland MD10$90−82%$65 – $125
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $491.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care566$492$229 – $1,352
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access47$399$264 – $684
Ownership
For-profit94$795$291 – $2,540
Government56$472$239 – $854
Non-profit477$461$217 – $1,118
System affiliation
Part of a system559$492$236 – $1,229
Independent72$440$155 – $1,259

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$919
Median cash price$491
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

473 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $506 and the average of the middle 60% is $567; most fall between $236 and $1,229.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 473 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
$152$276$506$1,009$1,638

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($152 vs $1,638).

Of the 544 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 473 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

631 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 735 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted631
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded53
Hospitals that filed this code735

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 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 Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Percutaneous Placement Enteroclysis Tube 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “X-ray guided placement of an intestinal contrast tube (CPT 74355) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74355-x-ray-guided-placement-of-an-intestinal-contrast-tube