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Procedure price report · Arterio- or venogram (not heart and head)

X-ray dye study of the large vein along the top of the brain

CPT 75870the billing code this page is about

Imaging guidance and interpretation for a contrast X-ray study of the superior sagittal sinus, the large draining vein running along the top of the brain.

Hospitals typically charge $2,241 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,150 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,488. Most fall between $1,180 and $4,566 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,150
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,150 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
$662$1,335$2,241$3,970$7,734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($662 vs $7,734).

How the prices are spread

$411 – $565: 45 hospitals$411$565 – $778: 30 hospitals$778 – $1,071: 75 hospitals$778$1,071 – $1,474: 127 hospitals$1,474 – $2,029: 166 hospitals$1,474$2,029 – $2,793: 192 hospitals$2,793 – $3,844: 145 hospitals$2,793$3,844 – $5,290: 111 hospitals$5,290 – $7,281: 78 hospitals$5,290$7,281 – $10,021: 71 hospitals$7,281median $2,241price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,040 of 1,150 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$411$56545
$565$77830
$778$1,07175
$1,071$1,474127
$1,474$2,029166
$2,029$2,793192
$2,793$3,844145
$3,844$5,290111
$5,290$7,28178
$7,281$10,02171

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,226
Median cash price$2,241
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.69×

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 $2,241.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,257 across 27 hospitalsWA$2,257Idaho: median $4,369 across 11 hospitalsID$4,369Montana: 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: median $1,297 across 19 hospitalsMN$1,297Illinois: median $2,330 across 46 hospitalsIL$2,330Wisconsin: median $1,995 across 20 hospitalsWI$1,995Michigan: median $3,970 across 25 hospitalsMI$3,970New York: median $3,725 across 41 hospitalsNY$3,725Massachusetts: median $3,116 across 14 hospitalsMA$3,116Oregon: median $158 across 16 hospitalsOR$158Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $138 across 14 hospitalsIA$138Indiana: median $2,051 across 19 hospitalsIN$2,051Ohio: median $2,701 across 78 hospitalsOH$2,701Pennsylvania: median $3,586 across 53 hospitalsPA$3,586New Jersey: median $3,484 across 40 hospitalsNJ$3,484Connecticut: 5 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 $3,418 across 111 hospitalsCA$3,418Utah: median $2,059 across 27 hospitalsUT$2,059Colorado: median $1,642 across 24 hospitalsCO$1,642Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,011 across 16 hospitalsMO$2,011Kentucky: median $1,319 across 14 hospitalsKY$1,319West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,620 across 31 hospitalsVA$1,620Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,774 across 22 hospitalsAZ$2,774New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $493 across 25 hospitalsTN$493North Carolina: median $1,376 across 35 hospitalsNC$1,376South Carolina: median $2,335 across 24 hospitalsSC$2,335Oklahoma: median $842 across 12 hospitalsOK$842Louisiana: median $900 across 18 hospitalsLA$900Mississippi: median $380 across 11 hospitalsMS$380Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,441 across 45 hospitalsGA$2,441Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,864 across 123 hospitalsTX$1,864Florida: median $2,233 across 89 hospitalsFL$2,233
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,241. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$4,369+95%$1,500 – $10,789
Michigan MI25$3,970+77%$1,993 – $4,342
New York NY41$3,725+66%$2,644 – $7,110
Pennsylvania PA53$3,586+60%$2,280 – $5,553
New Jersey NJ40$3,484+55%$978 – $4,253
California CA111$3,418+53%$1,607 – $8,854
Massachusetts MA14$3,116+39%$2,162 – $3,924
Arizona AZ22$2,774+24%$1,239 – $10,021
Ohio OH78$2,701+21%$1,756 – $7,371
Georgia GA45$2,441+9%$1,182 – $3,769
South Carolina SC24$2,335+4%$2,141 – $2,335
Illinois IL46$2,330+4%$1,473 – $4,187
Washington WA27$2,257+1%$1,173 – $2,774
Florida FL89$2,2330%$1,574 – $7,710
Utah UT27$2,059−8%$1,853 – $2,059
Indiana IN19$2,051−8%$1,756 – $3,232
Missouri MO16$2,011−10%$1,335 – $3,461
Wisconsin WI20$1,995−11%$1,995 – $3,182
Texas TX123$1,864−17%$939 – $3,867
Colorado CO24$1,642−27%$1,358 – $4,488
Virginia VA31$1,620−28%$1,205 – $2,744
North Carolina NC35$1,376−39%$947 – $1,974
Kentucky KY14$1,319−41%$682 – $5,657
Minnesota MN19$1,297−42%$935 – $1,778
Louisiana LA18$900−60%$772 – $2,333
Oklahoma OK12$842−62%$842 – $3,003
Tennessee TN25$493−78%$454 – $3,769
Mississippi MS11$380−83%$296 – $708
Oregon OR16$158−93%$109 – $1,541
Iowa IA14$138−94%$138 – $2,041
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $2,241.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,037$2,249$1,182 – $4,586
Children’s34$2,320$1,016 – $4,260
Critical access73$1,995$494 – $4,573
Ownership
For-profit146$3,156$1,500 – $9,110
Government118$2,107$953 – $3,725
Non-profit880$2,212$1,119 – $4,488
System affiliation
Part of a system1,045$2,208$1,182 – $4,512
Independent105$2,818$1,145 – $4,840

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,634
Median cash price$2,241
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

896 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,208 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,369; most fall between $1,182 and $4,357.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 896 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
$666$1,326$2,208$3,800$7,056

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($666 vs $7,056).

Of the 995 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 896 gave a usable cash price; 64 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,150 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,283 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,150
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here91
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 — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,283

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 Arterio- or venogram (not heart and head) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Venography Superior Sagittal Sinus 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, “X-ray dye study of the large vein along the top of the brain (CPT 75870) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-75870-x-ray-dye-study-of-the-large-vein-along-the-top-of-the-brain