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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray for swallowed object in a child, single view

CPT 76010the billing code this page is about

One X-ray image covering the area from the nose to the rectum in a child, taken to locate a swallowed or inhaled foreign object.

Hospitals typically charge $197 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,776 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $208. Most fall between $105 and $370 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,776
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 2,776 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
$75$118$197$327$553

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $553).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $71: 124 hospitals$54$71 – $94: 189 hospitals$94 – $124: 304 hospitals$94$124 – $164: 328 hospitals$164 – $216: 462 hospitals$164$216 – $285: 380 hospitals$285 – $375: 304 hospitals$285$375 – $495: 215 hospitals$495 – $653: 120 hospitals$495$653 – $861: 74 hospitals$653median $197price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,500 of 2,776 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$71124
$71$94189
$94$124304
$124$164328
$164$216462
$216$285380
$285$375304
$375$495215
$495$653120
$653$86174

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$197
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $197.

Alaska: median $277 across 16 hospitalsAK$277Maine: median $175 across 23 hospitalsME$175Vermont: median $403 across 11 hospitalsVT$403New Hampshire: median $153 across 15 hospitalsNH$153Washington: median $206 across 65 hospitalsWA$206Idaho: median $237 across 20 hospitalsID$237Montana: median $137 across 13 hospitalsMT$137North Dakota: median $107 across 19 hospitalsND$107Minnesota: median $157 across 88 hospitalsMN$157Illinois: median $245 across 107 hospitalsIL$245Wisconsin: median $148 across 100 hospitalsWI$148Michigan: median $120 across 75 hospitalsMI$120New York: median $171 across 84 hospitalsNY$171Massachusetts: median $296 across 45 hospitalsMA$296Oregon: median $197 across 42 hospitalsOR$197Nevada: median $200 across 14 hospitalsNV$200Wyoming: median $245 across 13 hospitalsWY$245South Dakota: median $316 across 19 hospitalsSD$316Iowa: median $179 across 63 hospitalsIA$179Indiana: median $179 across 84 hospitalsIN$179Ohio: median $243 across 132 hospitalsOH$243Pennsylvania: median $212 across 105 hospitalsPA$212New Jersey: median $104 across 54 hospitalsNJ$104Connecticut: median $201 across 19 hospitalsCT$201Rhode Island: median $213 across 10 hospitalsRI$213California: median $286 across 190 hospitalsCA$286Utah: median $231 across 40 hospitalsUT$231Colorado: median $301 across 57 hospitalsCO$301Nebraska: median $286 across 58 hospitalsNE$286Missouri: median $196 across 61 hospitalsMO$196Kentucky: median $166 across 49 hospitalsKY$166West Virginia: median $192 across 31 hospitalsWV$192Virginia: median $219 across 61 hospitalsVA$219Maryland: median $155 across 30 hospitalsMD$155Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $97 across 51 hospitalsAZ$97New Mexico: median $190 across 19 hospitalsNM$190Kansas: median $181 across 56 hospitalsKS$181Arkansas: median $152 across 21 hospitalsAR$152Tennessee: median $106 across 64 hospitalsTN$106North Carolina: median $162 across 77 hospitalsNC$162South Carolina: median $177 across 45 hospitalsSC$177Oklahoma: median $180 across 50 hospitalsOK$180Louisiana: median $110 across 46 hospitalsLA$110Mississippi: median $105 across 38 hospitalsMS$105Alabama: median $156 across 37 hospitalsAL$156Georgia: median $149 across 89 hospitalsGA$149Hawaii: median $247 across 15 hospitalsHI$247Texas: median $213 across 197 hospitalsTX$213Florida: median $443 across 152 hospitalsFL$443
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $197. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL152$443+125%$200 – $1,219
Vermont VT11$403+104%$263 – $570
South Dakota SD19$316+60%$233 – $337
Colorado CO57$301+53%$160 – $390
Massachusetts MA45$296+50%$154 – $587
California CA190$286+45%$160 – $600
Nebraska NE58$286+45%$206 – $377
Alaska AK16$277+40%$174 – $445
Hawaii HI15$247+25%$184 – $300
Illinois IL107$245+24%$124 – $406
Wyoming WY13$245+24%$84 – $353
Ohio OH132$243+23%$167 – $395
Idaho ID20$237+20%$147 – $365
Utah UT40$231+17%$224 – $360
Virginia VA61$219+11%$166 – $339
Rhode Island RI10$213+8%$94 – $286
Texas TX197$213+8%$113 – $634
Pennsylvania PA105$212+8%$99 – $378
Washington WA65$206+5%$152 – $296
Connecticut CT19$201+2%$118 – $332
Nevada NV14$200+1%$90 – $473
Oregon OR42$1970%$148 – $262
Missouri MO61$196−1%$118 – $307
West Virginia WV31$192−3%$159 – $333
New Mexico NM19$190−4%$144 – $252
Kansas KS56$181−8%$125 – $389
Oklahoma OK50$180−9%$93 – $251
Indiana IN84$179−9%$104 – $258
Iowa IA63$179−9%$122 – $222
South Carolina SC45$177−10%$77 – $244
Maine ME23$175−11%$85 – $366
New York NY84$171−13%$104 – $297
Kentucky KY49$166−16%$117 – $335
North Carolina NC77$162−18%$97 – $238
Minnesota MN88$157−20%$86 – $246
Alabama AL37$156−21%$110 – $450
Maryland MD30$155−21%$106 – $190
New Hampshire NH15$153−22%$128 – $270
Arkansas AR21$152−23%$62 – $193
Georgia GA89$149−25%$60 – $445
Wisconsin WI100$148−25%$93 – $277
Montana MT13$137−31%$109 – $210
Michigan MI75$120−39%$82 – $320
Louisiana LA46$110−44%$60 – $197
North Dakota ND19$107−46%$83 – $161
Tennessee TN64$106−46%$69 – $210
Mississippi MS38$105−47%$62 – $173
New Jersey NJ54$104−47%$63 – $215
Arizona AZ51$97−51%$83 – $298
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 $197.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,059$197$103 – $409
Children’s42$217$140 – $439
Critical access667$193$110 – $307
Ownership
For-profit390$259$113 – $987
Government430$166$103 – $311
Non-profit1,948$197$104 – $340
System affiliation
Part of a system2,331$201$106 – $387
Independent445$182$96 – $310

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$334
Median cash price$197
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

1,955 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $205 and the average of the middle 60% is $214; most fall between $110 and $368.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,955 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
$75$123$205$332$503

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $503).

Of the 2,139 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,955 gave a usable cash price; 103 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,776 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 3,060 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,776
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here192
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code3,060

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 Radex From Nose Rectum Foreign Body 1 View Chld|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 for swallowed object in a child, single view (CPT 76010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76010-x-ray-for-swallowed-object-in-a-child-single-view