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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

MRI safety check for implants or metal, first 15 minutes

CPT 76014the billing code this page is about

Review by a qualified professional to decide whether an implanted device or a metal fragment in the body makes an MRI scan safe to perform; this code bills the first 15 minutes of that work.

Hospitals typically charge $47 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,398 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $26 and $87 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,398
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2025 – 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 1,398 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
$18$29$47$74$112

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($18 vs $112).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $16: 52 hospitals$13$16 – $21: 74 hospitals$21 – $26: 101 hospitals$21$26 – $34: 156 hospitals$34 – $43: 179 hospitals$34$43 – $56: 244 hospitals$56 – $71: 138 hospitals$56$71 – $91: 143 hospitals$91 – $117: 115 hospitals$91$117 – $150: 58 hospitals$117median $47price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,260 of 1,398 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1652
$16$2174
$21$26101
$26$34156
$34$43179
$43$56244
$56$71138
$71$91143
$91$117115
$117$15058

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$47
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.59×

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 $47.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $34 across 12 hospitalsME$34Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $48 across 28 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $53 across 49 hospitalsIL$53Wisconsin: median $65 across 53 hospitalsWI$65Michigan: median $43 across 24 hospitalsMI$43New York: median $50 across 52 hospitalsNY$50Massachusetts: median $76 across 24 hospitalsMA$76Oregon: median $33 across 17 hospitalsOR$33Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $33 across 19 hospitalsIA$33Indiana: median $56 across 42 hospitalsIN$56Ohio: median $39 across 87 hospitalsOH$39Pennsylvania: median $44 across 82 hospitalsPA$44New Jersey: median $27 across 35 hospitalsNJ$27Connecticut: median $53 across 13 hospitalsCT$53Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $73 across 68 hospitalsCA$73Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $81 across 37 hospitalsCO$81Nebraska: median $26 across 21 hospitalsNE$26Missouri: median $37 across 27 hospitalsMO$37Kentucky: median $38 across 36 hospitalsKY$38West Virginia: median $30 across 11 hospitalsWV$30Virginia: median $39 across 40 hospitalsVA$39Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $12 across 23 hospitalsAZ$12New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $63 across 19 hospitalsKS$63Arkansas: median $16 across 14 hospitalsAR$16Tennessee: median $23 across 55 hospitalsTN$23North Carolina: median $39 across 48 hospitalsNC$39South Carolina: median $46 across 32 hospitalsSC$46Oklahoma: median $25 across 17 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $18 across 10 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $29 across 12 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: median $49 across 26 hospitalsAL$49Georgia: median $47 across 37 hospitalsGA$47Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $50 across 140 hospitalsTX$50Florida: median $54 across 102 hospitalsFL$54
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $47. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO37$81+72%$33 – $551
Massachusetts MA24$76+62%$32 – $100
California CA68$73+55%$36 – $89
Wisconsin WI53$65+39%$50 – $106
Kansas KS19$63+33%$32 – $106
Indiana IN42$56+19%$34 – $322
Florida FL102$54+15%$33 – $92
Connecticut CT13$53+13%$43 – $75
Illinois IL49$53+12%$49 – $71
Texas TX140$50+7%$31 – $110
New York NY52$50+6%$29 – $85
Alabama AL26$49+4%$20 – $50
Washington WA28$48+3%$20 – $66
Georgia GA37$470%$24 – $66
South Carolina SC32$46−2%$40 – $95
Pennsylvania PA82$44−6%$33 – $58
Michigan MI24$43−8%$40 – $89
Virginia VA40$39−16%$23 – $65
North Carolina NC48$39−17%$30 – $52
Ohio OH87$39−17%$24 – $51
Kentucky KY36$38−18%$25 – $98
Missouri MO27$37−22%$27 – $106
Maine ME12$34−27%$26 – $60
Iowa IA19$33−29%$19 – $63
Oregon OR17$33−30%$21 – $75
West Virginia WV11$30−36%$28 – $62
Mississippi MS12$29−39%$15 – $32
New Jersey NJ35$27−42%$15 – $100
Nebraska NE21$26−45%$18 – $50
Oklahoma OK17$25−48%$21 – $28
Tennessee TN55$23−51%$14 – $73
Louisiana LA10$18−62%$11 – $162
Arkansas AR14$16−66%$16 – $33
Arizona AZ23$12−74%$10 – $59
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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 $47.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,207$46$25 – $82
Children’s28$62$33 – $192
Critical access157$49$28 – $89
Ownership
For-profit206$66$26 – $105
Government159$41$24 – $65
Non-profit1,027$46$26 – $78
System affiliation
Part of a system1,272$48$25 – $87
Independent126$44$29 – $77

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$78
Median cash price$47
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

1,027 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $49 and the average of the middle 60% is $49; most fall between $26 and $81.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,027 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
$19$30$49$73$110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $110).

Of the 1,087 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,027 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,398 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,479 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,398
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
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 — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,479

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 MR SFTY IMPLT&/FB ASMT STF 1.

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, “MRI safety check for implants or metal, first 15 minutes (CPT 76014) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76014-mri-safety-check-for-implants-or-metal-first-15-minutes