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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray guidance to widen a narrowed bile duct

CPT 74363the billing code this page is about

Covers the imaging supervision and interpretation for a needle-and-catheter procedure through the skin and liver to stretch open a narrowed bile duct, with or without placing a stent.

Hospitals typically charge $1,103 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,249 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,176. Most fall between $511 and $2,266 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,249
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 1,249 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
$289$622$1,103$1,807$3,926

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($289 vs $3,926).

How the prices are spread

$161 – $227: 39 hospitals$161$227 – $321: 46 hospitals$321 – $454: 82 hospitals$321$454 – $642: 93 hospitals$642 – $907: 185 hospitals$642$907 – $1,282: 211 hospitals$1,282 – $1,812: 219 hospitals$1,282$1,812 – $2,561: 94 hospitals$2,561 – $3,619: 73 hospitals$2,561$3,619 – $5,115: 83 hospitals$3,619median $1,103price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,125 of 1,249 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$161$22739
$227$32146
$321$45482
$454$64293
$642$907185
$907$1,282211
$1,282$1,812219
$1,812$2,56194
$2,561$3,61973
$3,619$5,11583

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,103.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $922 across 32 hospitalsWA$922Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,497 across 50 hospitalsIL$1,497Wisconsin: median $1,115 across 29 hospitalsWI$1,115Michigan: median $565 across 19 hospitalsMI$565New York: median $972 across 42 hospitalsNY$972Massachusetts: median $1,260 across 20 hospitalsMA$1,260Oregon: median $592 across 16 hospitalsOR$592Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $593 across 17 hospitalsIA$593Indiana: median $565 across 39 hospitalsIN$565Ohio: median $1,098 across 79 hospitalsOH$1,098Pennsylvania: median $1,708 across 55 hospitalsPA$1,708New Jersey: median $1,048 across 27 hospitalsNJ$1,048Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,719 across 131 hospitalsCA$1,719Utah: median $1,751 across 25 hospitalsUT$1,751Colorado: median $2,290 across 25 hospitalsCO$2,290Nebraska: median $1,014 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,014Missouri: median $1,096 across 23 hospitalsMO$1,096Kentucky: median $939 across 21 hospitalsKY$939West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $761 across 31 hospitalsVA$761Maryland: median $92 across 18 hospitalsMD$92Delaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,136 across 29 hospitalsAZ$1,136New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,776 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,776Arkansas: median $801 across 11 hospitalsAR$801Tennessee: median $184 across 21 hospitalsTN$184North Carolina: median $672 across 41 hospitalsNC$672South Carolina: median $1,583 across 19 hospitalsSC$1,583Oklahoma: median $915 across 20 hospitalsOK$915Louisiana: median $569 across 19 hospitalsLA$569Mississippi: median $417 across 16 hospitalsMS$417Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,103 across 46 hospitalsGA$1,103Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $861 across 127 hospitalsTX$861Florida: median $2,250 across 91 hospitalsFL$2,250
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,103. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO25$2,290+108%$869 – $3,926
Florida FL91$2,250+104%$1,171 – $5,866
Kansas KS12$1,776+61%$867 – $2,532
Utah UT25$1,751+59%$1,751 – $1,751
California CA131$1,719+56%$815 – $3,218
Pennsylvania PA55$1,708+55%$480 – $3,042
South Carolina SC19$1,583+44%$676 – $6,493
Illinois IL50$1,497+36%$613 – $3,246
Massachusetts MA20$1,260+14%$253 – $3,646
Arizona AZ29$1,136+3%$331 – $3,968
Wisconsin WI29$1,115+1%$301 – $1,115
Georgia GA46$1,1030%$883 – $1,581
Ohio OH79$1,0980%$885 – $1,803
Missouri MO23$1,096−1%$741 – $3,268
New Jersey NJ27$1,048−5%$334 – $4,055
Nebraska NE13$1,014−8%$723 – $1,552
New York NY42$972−12%$450 – $1,780
Kentucky KY21$939−15%$935 – $2,014
Washington WA32$922−16%$580 – $2,085
Oklahoma OK20$915−17%$370 – $951
Texas TX127$861−22%$429 – $2,036
Arkansas AR11$801−27%$295 – $1,193
Virginia VA31$761−31%$210 – $1,169
North Carolina NC41$672−39%$551 – $756
Iowa IA17$593−46%$103 – $1,489
Oregon OR16$592−46%$72 – $813
Louisiana LA19$569−48%$140 – $915
Michigan MI19$565−49%$55 – $1,230
Indiana IN39$565−49%$324 – $959
Mississippi MS16$417−62%$328 – $1,229
Tennessee TN21$184−83%$184 – $806
Maryland MD18$92−92%$69 – $126
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $1,103.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,132$1,103$536 – $2,332
Children’s28$1,454$1,050 – $3,350
Critical access83$675$303 – $1,751
Ownership
For-profit195$1,656$708 – $4,944
Government122$895$456 – $1,787
Non-profit926$1,069$465 – $1,909
System affiliation
Part of a system1,129$1,103$515 – $2,268
Independent120$1,032$454 – $2,244

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,959
Median cash price$1,103
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

972 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,103 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,162; most fall between $509 and $1,989.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 972 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
$289$672$1,103$1,751$3,417

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($289 vs $3,417).

Of the 1,081 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 972 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 60 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,249 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,438 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,249
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
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 — excluded110
Hospitals that filed this code1,438

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 X-RAY BILE DUCT DILATION.

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 guidance to widen a narrowed bile duct (CPT 74363) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74363-x-ray-guidance-to-widen-a-narrowed-bile-duct