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

X-ray dye study of the veins around the spinal canal

CPT 75872the billing code this page is about

Imaging guidance and interpretation for a contrast X-ray study of the epidural veins surrounding the spinal cord.

Hospitals typically charge $1,510 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 608 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,629. Most fall between $676 and $3,088 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
608
States
46
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 608 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
$300$732$1,510$2,773$5,352

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($300 vs $5,352).

How the prices are spread

$150 – $217: 9 hospitals$150$217 – $313: 29 hospitals$313 – $451: 17 hospitals$313$451 – $650: 35 hospitals$650 – $936: 76 hospitals$650$936 – $1,350: 74 hospitals$1,350 – $1,946: 97 hospitals$1,350$1,946 – $2,805: 93 hospitals$2,805 – $4,044: 60 hospitals$2,805$4,044 – $5,830: 59 hospitals$4,044median $1,510price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (549 of 608 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$150$2179
$217$31329
$313$45117
$451$65035
$650$93676
$936$1,35074
$1,350$1,94697
$1,946$2,80593
$2,805$4,04460
$4,044$5,83059

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$641
Median cash price$1,510
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 $1,510.

Alaska: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,160 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,160Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,358 across 26 hospitalsIL$1,358Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $736 across 30 hospitalsNY$736Massachusetts: median $2,783 across 10 hospitalsMA$2,783Oregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $134 across 15 hospitalsIA$134Indiana: median $1,277 across 17 hospitalsIN$1,277Ohio: median $1,560 across 53 hospitalsOH$1,560Pennsylvania: median $905 across 27 hospitalsPA$905New Jersey: median $685 across 18 hospitalsNJ$685Connecticut: 3 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 $4,400 across 70 hospitalsCA$4,400Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $5,352 across 10 hospitalsKY$5,352West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $770 across 14 hospitalsAZ$770New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $956 across 16 hospitalsNC$956South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $90 across 11 hospitalsOK$90Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,596 across 12 hospitalsGA$1,596Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,558 across 85 hospitalsTX$1,558Florida: median $3,466 across 46 hospitalsFL$3,466
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,510. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY10$5,352+254%$446 – $5,352
California CA70$4,400+191%$2,470 – $5,830
Florida FL46$3,466+130%$1,555 – $5,275
Massachusetts MA10$2,783+84%$1,147 – $3,763
Washington WA11$2,160+43%$1,726 – $3,669
Georgia GA12$1,596+6%$1,596 – $2,668
Ohio OH53$1,560+3%$1,282 – $2,773
Texas TX85$1,558+3%$592 – $2,080
Illinois IL26$1,358−10%$561 – $2,830
Indiana IN17$1,277−15%$1,023 – $1,832
North Carolina NC16$956−37%$820 – $967
Pennsylvania PA27$905−40%$625 – $1,345
Arizona AZ14$770−49%$595 – $819
New York NY30$736−51%$732 – $2,187
New Jersey NJ18$685−55%$676 – $880
Iowa IA15$134−91%$134 – $743
Oklahoma OK11$90−94%$90 – $1,250
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,510.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care549$1,510$684 – $3,237
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access42$923$222 – $1,850
Ownership
For-profit86$1,673$815 – $5,011
Government71$1,094$621 – $3,302
Non-profit449$1,510$679 – $2,874
System affiliation
Part of a system535$1,492$649 – $3,088
Independent73$1,560$679 – $3,099

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,600
Median cash price$1,510
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

440 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,694 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,851; most fall between $723 and $3,088.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 440 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
$258$956$1,694$2,850$5,186

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($258 vs $5,186).

Of the 490 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 440 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

608 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 674 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted608
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code674

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 5, 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 Epidural 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 veins around the spinal canal (CPT 75872) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-75872-x-ray-dye-study-of-the-veins-around-the-spinal-canal