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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Imaging guidance for changing a drainage tube

CPT 75984the billing code this page is about

Imaging supervision and interpretation, with contrast dye, for exchanging a tube or drainage catheter that passes through the skin, such as an abscess or urinary drain.

Hospitals typically charge $633 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,124 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $660. Most fall between $282 and $1,292 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,124
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 2,124 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
$183$338$633$1,116$2,143

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($183 vs $2,143).

How the prices are spread

$116 – $161: 66 hospitals$116$161 – $223: 137 hospitals$223 – $308: 174 hospitals$223$308 – $426: 227 hospitals$426 – $590: 279 hospitals$426$590 – $817: 407 hospitals$817 – $1,131: 208 hospitals$817$1,131 – $1,565: 182 hospitals$1,565 – $2,166: 134 hospitals$1,565$2,166 – $2,997: 104 hospitals$2,166median $633price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,918 of 2,124 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$116$16166
$161$223137
$223$308174
$308$426227
$426$590279
$590$817407
$817$1,131208
$1,131$1,565182
$1,565$2,166134
$2,166$2,997104

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $633.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $415 across 13 hospitalsME$415Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $711 across 11 hospitalsNH$711Washington: median $649 across 46 hospitalsWA$649Idaho: median $1,071 across 13 hospitalsID$1,071Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $407 across 44 hospitalsMN$407Illinois: median $898 across 88 hospitalsIL$898Wisconsin: median $595 across 80 hospitalsWI$595Michigan: median $419 across 60 hospitalsMI$419New York: median $545 across 66 hospitalsNY$545Massachusetts: median $662 across 45 hospitalsMA$662Oregon: median $432 across 34 hospitalsOR$432Nevada: median $1,011 across 10 hospitalsNV$1,011Wyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $342 across 10 hospitalsSD$342Iowa: median $650 across 30 hospitalsIA$650Indiana: median $335 across 56 hospitalsIN$335Ohio: median $683 across 107 hospitalsOH$683Pennsylvania: median $678 across 87 hospitalsPA$678New Jersey: median $359 across 42 hospitalsNJ$359Connecticut: median $461 across 20 hospitalsCT$461Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,000 across 181 hospitalsCA$1,000Utah: median $792 across 34 hospitalsUT$792Colorado: median $815 across 41 hospitalsCO$815Nebraska: median $650 across 19 hospitalsNE$650Missouri: median $578 across 48 hospitalsMO$578Kentucky: median $537 across 34 hospitalsKY$537West Virginia: median $215 across 20 hospitalsWV$215Virginia: median $500 across 53 hospitalsVA$500Maryland: median $93 across 24 hospitalsMD$93Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $873 across 41 hospitalsAZ$873New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $409 across 23 hospitalsKS$409Arkansas: median $189 across 20 hospitalsAR$189Tennessee: median $325 across 48 hospitalsTN$325North Carolina: median $479 across 63 hospitalsNC$479South Carolina: median $740 across 44 hospitalsSC$740Oklahoma: median $428 across 28 hospitalsOK$428Louisiana: median $298 across 28 hospitalsLA$298Mississippi: median $298 across 34 hospitalsMS$298Alabama: median $287 across 25 hospitalsAL$287Georgia: median $749 across 71 hospitalsGA$749Hawaii: median $549 across 12 hospitalsHI$549Texas: median $713 across 178 hospitalsTX$713Florida: median $1,170 across 140 hospitalsFL$1,170
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $633. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL140$1,170+85%$628 – $2,776
Idaho ID13$1,071+69%$573 – $1,350
Nevada NV10$1,011+60%$288 – $1,305
California CA181$1,000+58%$487 – $2,195
Illinois IL88$898+42%$336 – $1,622
Arizona AZ41$873+38%$239 – $1,424
Colorado CO41$815+29%$526 – $1,757
Utah UT34$792+25%$564 – $792
Georgia GA71$749+18%$454 – $1,513
South Carolina SC44$740+17%$470 – $1,091
Texas TX178$713+13%$397 – $1,591
New Hampshire NH11$711+12%$494 – $1,893
Ohio OH107$683+8%$422 – $1,341
Pennsylvania PA87$678+7%$240 – $2,120
Massachusetts MA45$662+5%$183 – $1,139
Iowa IA30$650+3%$331 – $830
Nebraska NE19$650+3%$477 – $1,070
Washington WA46$649+3%$297 – $876
Wisconsin WI80$595−6%$215 – $729
Missouri MO48$578−9%$292 – $1,091
Hawaii HI12$549−13%$432 – $1,014
New York NY66$545−14%$229 – $1,340
Kentucky KY34$537−15%$253 – $1,165
Virginia VA53$500−21%$264 – $930
North Carolina NC63$479−24%$235 – $798
Connecticut CT20$461−27%$429 – $943
Oregon OR34$432−32%$176 – $588
Oklahoma OK28$428−32%$348 – $848
Michigan MI60$419−34%$166 – $774
Maine ME13$415−34%$193 – $931
Kansas KS23$409−35%$301 – $1,360
Minnesota MN44$407−36%$279 – $732
New Jersey NJ42$359−43%$161 – $1,802
South Dakota SD10$342−46%$342 – $963
Indiana IN56$335−47%$180 – $753
Tennessee TN48$325−49%$120 – $839
Mississippi MS34$298−53%$132 – $548
Louisiana LA28$298−53%$129 – $726
Alabama AL25$287−55%$134 – $552
West Virginia WV20$215−66%$67 – $428
Arkansas AR20$189−70%$124 – $465
Maryland MD24$93−85%$70 – $125
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not 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 $633.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,842$650$292 – $1,341
Children’s47$986$381 – $1,396
Critical access226$420$185 – $792
Ownership
For-profit322$940$425 – $2,247
Government242$502$254 – $796
Non-profit1,551$614$277 – $1,170
System affiliation
Part of a system1,851$645$288 – $1,318
Independent273$550$235 – $1,206

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,074
Median cash price$633
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

1,573 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $649 and the average of the middle 60% is $663; most fall between $288 and $1,226.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,573 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
$185$349$649$1,092$2,051

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($185 vs $2,051).

Of the 1,746 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,573 gave a usable cash price; 87 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 84 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,124 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,414 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,124
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here143
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 — excluded144
Hospitals that filed this code2,414

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 Change Prq Tube/Drainage Cath W Contrast 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Imaging guidance for changing a drainage tube (CPT 75984) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-75984-imaging-guidance-for-changing-a-drainage-tube