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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Bladder X-ray with contrast dye

CPT 74430the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the bladder filled with contrast dye, using at least three views.

Hospitals typically charge $521 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,787 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $561. Most fall between $291 and $983 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,787
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 2,787 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
$192$328$521$856$1,434

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($192 vs $1,434).

How the prices are spread

$123 – $162: 74 hospitals$123$162 – $212: 117 hospitals$212 – $279: 178 hospitals$212$279 – $367: 319 hospitals$367 – $482: 419 hospitals$367$482 – $633: 451 hospitals$633 – $832: 326 hospitals$633$832 – $1,093: 281 hospitals$1,093 – $1,436: 207 hospitals$1,093$1,436 – $1,887: 137 hospitals$1,436median $521price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,509 of 2,787 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$123$16274
$162$212117
$212$279178
$279$367319
$367$482419
$482$633451
$633$832326
$832$1,093281
$1,093$1,436207
$1,436$1,887137

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$521
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.46×

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 $521.

Alaska: median $581 across 10 hospitalsAK$581Maine: median $344 across 21 hospitalsME$344Vermont: median $987 across 10 hospitalsVT$987New Hampshire: median $479 across 18 hospitalsNH$479Washington: median $580 across 56 hospitalsWA$580Idaho: median $835 across 18 hospitalsID$835Montana: median $373 across 10 hospitalsMT$373North Dakota: median $504 across 11 hospitalsND$504Minnesota: median $478 across 65 hospitalsMN$478Illinois: median $675 across 111 hospitalsIL$675Wisconsin: median $293 across 94 hospitalsWI$293Michigan: median $358 across 78 hospitalsMI$358New York: median $565 across 93 hospitalsNY$565Massachusetts: median $831 across 45 hospitalsMA$831Oregon: median $576 across 39 hospitalsOR$576Nevada: median $603 across 16 hospitalsNV$603Wyoming: median $408 across 12 hospitalsWY$408South Dakota: median $842 across 15 hospitalsSD$842Iowa: median $380 across 56 hospitalsIA$380Indiana: median $484 across 86 hospitalsIN$484Ohio: median $655 across 136 hospitalsOH$655Pennsylvania: median $531 across 109 hospitalsPA$531New Jersey: median $414 across 56 hospitalsNJ$414Connecticut: median $865 across 20 hospitalsCT$865Rhode Island: median $390 across 10 hospitalsRI$390California: median $800 across 211 hospitalsCA$800Utah: median $494 across 37 hospitalsUT$494Colorado: median $747 across 56 hospitalsCO$747Nebraska: median $506 across 46 hospitalsNE$506Missouri: median $417 across 63 hospitalsMO$417Kentucky: median $433 across 49 hospitalsKY$433West Virginia: median $558 across 29 hospitalsWV$558Virginia: median $528 across 62 hospitalsVA$528Maryland: median $92 across 32 hospitalsMD$92Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $422 across 47 hospitalsAZ$422New Mexico: median $519 across 22 hospitalsNM$519Kansas: median $512 across 45 hospitalsKS$512Arkansas: median $227 across 22 hospitalsAR$227Tennessee: median $347 across 72 hospitalsTN$347North Carolina: median $392 across 89 hospitalsNC$392South Carolina: median $585 across 51 hospitalsSC$585Oklahoma: median $426 across 48 hospitalsOK$426Louisiana: median $282 across 48 hospitalsLA$282Mississippi: median $250 across 41 hospitalsMS$250Alabama: median $508 across 35 hospitalsAL$508Georgia: median $341 across 91 hospitalsGA$341Hawaii: median $646 across 16 hospitalsHI$646Texas: median $625 across 211 hospitalsTX$625Florida: median $868 across 163 hospitalsFL$868
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $521. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT10$987+90%$542 – $1,942
Florida FL163$868+67%$439 – $2,441
Connecticut CT20$865+66%$556 – $1,472
South Dakota SD15$842+62%$515 – $896
Idaho ID18$835+60%$396 – $1,220
Massachusetts MA45$831+60%$491 – $1,216
California CA211$800+54%$406 – $1,304
Colorado CO56$747+44%$501 – $1,462
Illinois IL111$675+30%$286 – $1,071
Ohio OH136$655+26%$433 – $1,005
Hawaii HI16$646+24%$454 – $929
Texas TX211$625+20%$348 – $1,458
Nevada NV16$603+16%$379 – $1,120
South Carolina SC51$585+12%$392 – $696
Alaska AK10$581+12%$171 – $854
Washington WA56$580+11%$449 – $822
Oregon OR39$576+11%$303 – $914
New York NY93$565+9%$328 – $939
West Virginia WV29$558+7%$242 – $979
Pennsylvania PA109$531+2%$324 – $1,112
Virginia VA62$528+1%$429 – $839
New Mexico NM22$5190%$384 – $697
Kansas KS45$512−2%$348 – $795
Alabama AL35$508−2%$162 – $825
Nebraska NE46$506−3%$352 – $838
North Dakota ND11$504−3%$333 – $946
Utah UT37$494−5%$494 – $749
Indiana IN86$484−7%$287 – $724
New Hampshire NH18$479−8%$179 – $1,013
Minnesota MN65$478−8%$275 – $618
Kentucky KY49$433−17%$282 – $1,041
Oklahoma OK48$426−18%$266 – $792
Arizona AZ47$422−19%$261 – $1,498
Missouri MO63$417−20%$323 – $686
New Jersey NJ56$414−20%$254 – $584
Wyoming WY12$408−22%$333 – $659
North Carolina NC89$392−25%$242 – $553
Rhode Island RI10$390−25%$349 – $880
Iowa IA56$380−27%$240 – $621
Montana MT10$373−28%$220 – $637
Michigan MI78$358−31%$207 – $728
Tennessee TN72$347−33%$164 – $605
Maine ME21$344−34%$253 – $567
Georgia GA91$341−35%$193 – $679
Wisconsin WI94$293−44%$116 – $540
Louisiana LA48$282−46%$161 – $620
Mississippi MS41$250−52%$135 – $459
Arkansas AR22$227−56%$171 – $529
Maryland MD32$92−82%$69 – $128
Delaware DE6not 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 $521.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,207$536$302 – $1,059
Children’s63$760$374 – $1,104
Critical access507$469$236 – $776
Ownership
For-profit429$749$341 – $1,921
Government406$455$267 – $789
Non-profit1,942$513$282 – $920
System affiliation
Part of a system2,345$530$292 – $1,013
Independent442$473$282 – $896

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$980
Median cash price$521
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

1,998 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $535 and the average of the middle 60% is $566; most fall between $298 and $946.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,998 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
$199$328$535$853$1,317

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($199 vs $1,317).

Of the 2,197 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,998 gave a usable cash price; 105 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,787 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,086 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,787
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here194
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code3,086

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 Cystography Minimum 3 Views 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, “Bladder X-ray with contrast dye (CPT 74430) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74430-bladder-x-ray-with-contrast-dye