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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray of urethra and bladder during urination

CPT 74455the billing code this page is about

X-ray imaging of the bladder and urethra taken while the patient passes urine after the bladder has been filled with contrast dye.

Hospitals typically charge $584 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,686 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $608. Most fall between $302 and $1,058 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,686
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 2,686 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
$214$353$584$921$1,658

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($214 vs $1,658).

How the prices are spread

$157 – $206: 113 hospitals$157$206 – $271: 181 hospitals$271 – $356: 251 hospitals$271$356 – $467: 332 hospitals$467 – $614: 407 hospitals$467$614 – $806: 458 hospitals$806 – $1,058: 277 hospitals$806$1,058 – $1,389: 162 hospitals$1,389 – $1,825: 142 hospitals$1,389$1,825 – $2,396: 97 hospitals$1,825median $584price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,420 of 2,686 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$157$206113
$206$271181
$271$356251
$356$467332
$467$614407
$614$806458
$806$1,058277
$1,058$1,389162
$1,389$1,825142
$1,825$2,39697

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$584
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $584.

Alaska: median $664 across 12 hospitalsAK$664Maine: median $375 across 22 hospitalsME$375Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $619 across 18 hospitalsNH$619Washington: median $691 across 54 hospitalsWA$691Idaho: median $545 across 17 hospitalsID$545Montana: median $476 across 11 hospitalsMT$476North Dakota: median $509 across 13 hospitalsND$509Minnesota: median $431 across 60 hospitalsMN$431Illinois: median $695 across 107 hospitalsIL$695Wisconsin: median $458 across 95 hospitalsWI$458Michigan: median $416 across 76 hospitalsMI$416New York: median $557 across 87 hospitalsNY$557Massachusetts: median $796 across 43 hospitalsMA$796Oregon: median $614 across 38 hospitalsOR$614Nevada: median $580 across 16 hospitalsNV$580Wyoming: median $609 across 12 hospitalsWY$609South Dakota: median $1,230 across 14 hospitalsSD$1,230Iowa: median $481 across 50 hospitalsIA$481Indiana: median $485 across 84 hospitalsIN$485Ohio: median $661 across 134 hospitalsOH$661Pennsylvania: median $460 across 105 hospitalsPA$460New Jersey: median $280 across 53 hospitalsNJ$280Connecticut: median $671 across 19 hospitalsCT$671Rhode Island: median $354 across 10 hospitalsRI$354California: median $869 across 208 hospitalsCA$869Utah: median $545 across 36 hospitalsUT$545Colorado: median $899 across 54 hospitalsCO$899Nebraska: median $597 across 47 hospitalsNE$597Missouri: median $631 across 60 hospitalsMO$631Kentucky: median $463 across 51 hospitalsKY$463West Virginia: median $666 across 24 hospitalsWV$666Virginia: median $615 across 55 hospitalsVA$615Maryland: median $101 across 31 hospitalsMD$101Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $356 across 47 hospitalsAZ$356New Mexico: median $531 across 19 hospitalsNM$531Kansas: median $606 across 43 hospitalsKS$606Arkansas: median $192 across 19 hospitalsAR$192Tennessee: median $268 across 71 hospitalsTN$268North Carolina: median $544 across 87 hospitalsNC$544South Carolina: median $671 across 51 hospitalsSC$671Oklahoma: median $464 across 44 hospitalsOK$464Louisiana: median $329 across 46 hospitalsLA$329Mississippi: median $254 across 42 hospitalsMS$254Alabama: median $423 across 29 hospitalsAL$423Georgia: median $536 across 86 hospitalsGA$536Hawaii: median $722 across 15 hospitalsHI$722Texas: median $703 across 203 hospitalsTX$703Florida: median $1,327 across 156 hospitalsFL$1,327
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $584. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL156$1,327+127%$620 – $3,688
South Dakota SD14$1,230+111%$908 – $1,962
Colorado CO54$899+54%$513 – $1,326
California CA208$869+49%$424 – $1,633
Massachusetts MA43$796+36%$454 – $1,345
Hawaii HI15$722+24%$549 – $865
Texas TX203$703+20%$466 – $1,988
Illinois IL107$695+19%$400 – $1,130
Washington WA54$691+18%$505 – $911
Connecticut CT19$671+15%$415 – $921
South Carolina SC51$671+15%$458 – $743
West Virginia WV24$666+14%$429 – $971
Alaska AK12$664+14%$523 – $1,245
Ohio OH134$661+13%$443 – $1,018
Missouri MO60$631+8%$370 – $999
New Hampshire NH18$619+6%$420 – $1,666
Virginia VA55$615+5%$368 – $855
Oregon OR38$614+5%$388 – $772
Wyoming WY12$609+4%$491 – $906
Kansas KS43$606+4%$407 – $1,019
Nebraska NE47$597+2%$426 – $916
Nevada NV16$580−1%$416 – $1,968
New York NY87$557−5%$286 – $1,070
Idaho ID17$545−7%$458 – $1,001
Utah UT36$545−7%$545 – $795
North Carolina NC87$544−7%$311 – $610
Georgia GA86$536−8%$255 – $945
New Mexico NM19$531−9%$313 – $797
North Dakota ND13$509−13%$316 – $555
Indiana IN84$485−17%$336 – $720
Iowa IA50$481−18%$275 – $738
Montana MT11$476−18%$342 – $696
Oklahoma OK44$464−21%$269 – $690
Kentucky KY51$463−21%$284 – $971
Pennsylvania PA105$460−21%$281 – $1,274
Wisconsin WI95$458−22%$160 – $690
Minnesota MN60$431−26%$130 – $558
Alabama AL29$423−27%$251 – $696
Michigan MI76$416−29%$254 – $877
Maine ME22$375−36%$209 – $800
Arizona AZ47$356−39%$193 – $1,714
Rhode Island RI10$354−39%$332 – $800
Louisiana LA46$329−44%$169 – $519
New Jersey NJ53$280−52%$218 – $628
Tennessee TN71$268−54%$150 – $581
Mississippi MS42$254−56%$180 – $422
Arkansas AR19$192−67%$155 – $461
Maryland MD31$101−83%$74 – $1,375
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $584.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,137$586$301 – $1,139
Children’s65$933$476 – $1,325
Critical access474$547$300 – $828
Ownership
For-profit399$859$377 – $2,650
Government389$528$286 – $839
Non-profit1,888$576$297 – $971
System affiliation
Part of a system2,255$588$301 – $1,092
Independent431$538$302 – $923

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,037
Median cash price$584
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

1,910 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $616 and the average of the middle 60% is $624; most fall between $323 and $1,018.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,910 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
$218$390$616$904$1,491

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($218 vs $1,491).

Of the 2,101 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,910 gave a usable cash price; 97 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

2,686 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 2,972 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,686
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here183
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,972

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 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 Urethrocystography Voiding Rs&I.

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, “X-ray of urethra and bladder during urination (CPT 74455) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-74455-x-ray-of-urethra-and-bladder-during-urination