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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-ray dye study of a draining tract, fistula, or abscess

CPT 76080the billing code this page is about

Contrast dye is injected into an abnormal opening, fistula, or abscess cavity and X-rays are taken to map how far it extends and where it connects.

Hospitals typically charge $602 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,590 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $646. Most fall between $312 and $1,226 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,590
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 2,590 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
$213$355$602$1,062$1,745

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($213 vs $1,745).

How the prices are spread

$150 – $197: 94 hospitals$150$197 – $258: 161 hospitals$258 – $339: 222 hospitals$258$339 – $444: 337 hospitals$444 – $583: 306 hospitals$444$583 – $765: 352 hospitals$765 – $1,003: 311 hospitals$765$1,003 – $1,316: 196 hospitals$1,316 – $1,727: 219 hospitals$1,316$1,727 – $2,265: 136 hospitals$1,727median $602price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,334 of 2,590 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$150$19794
$197$258161
$258$339222
$339$444337
$444$583306
$583$765352
$765$1,003311
$1,003$1,316196
$1,316$1,727219
$1,727$2,265136

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$558
Median cash price$602
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.08×

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 $602.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $452 across 20 hospitalsME$452Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $419 across 14 hospitalsNH$419Washington: median $768 across 50 hospitalsWA$768Idaho: median $884 across 18 hospitalsID$884Montana: median $446 across 10 hospitalsMT$446North Dakota: median $392 across 14 hospitalsND$392Minnesota: median $507 across 58 hospitalsMN$507Illinois: median $910 across 97 hospitalsIL$910Wisconsin: median $332 across 89 hospitalsWI$332Michigan: median $491 across 76 hospitalsMI$491New York: median $738 across 88 hospitalsNY$738Massachusetts: median $930 across 47 hospitalsMA$930Oregon: median $780 across 39 hospitalsOR$780Nevada: median $594 across 13 hospitalsNV$594Wyoming: median $422 across 10 hospitalsWY$422South Dakota: median $904 across 13 hospitalsSD$904Iowa: median $498 across 45 hospitalsIA$498Indiana: median $440 across 72 hospitalsIN$440Ohio: median $746 across 124 hospitalsOH$746Pennsylvania: median $845 across 107 hospitalsPA$845New Jersey: median $636 across 55 hospitalsNJ$636Connecticut: median $860 across 20 hospitalsCT$860Rhode Island: median $656 across 10 hospitalsRI$656California: median $1,044 across 197 hospitalsCA$1,044Utah: median $831 across 34 hospitalsUT$831Colorado: median $770 across 50 hospitalsCO$770Nebraska: median $951 across 41 hospitalsNE$951Missouri: median $595 across 63 hospitalsMO$595Kentucky: median $398 across 47 hospitalsKY$398West Virginia: median $628 across 21 hospitalsWV$628Virginia: median $579 across 56 hospitalsVA$579Maryland: median $126 across 36 hospitalsMD$126Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $403 across 46 hospitalsAZ$403New Mexico: median $721 across 15 hospitalsNM$721Kansas: median $508 across 45 hospitalsKS$508Arkansas: median $349 across 26 hospitalsAR$349Tennessee: median $276 across 69 hospitalsTN$276North Carolina: median $375 across 76 hospitalsNC$375South Carolina: median $604 across 46 hospitalsSC$604Oklahoma: median $378 across 43 hospitalsOK$378Louisiana: median $338 across 45 hospitalsLA$338Mississippi: median $263 across 38 hospitalsMS$263Alabama: median $396 across 29 hospitalsAL$396Georgia: median $389 across 79 hospitalsGA$389Hawaii: median $708 across 14 hospitalsHI$708Texas: median $602 across 204 hospitalsTX$602Florida: median $1,177 across 159 hospitalsFL$1,177
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $602. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL159$1,177+96%$478 – $2,137
California CA197$1,044+74%$469 – $1,608
Nebraska NE41$951+58%$557 – $1,609
Massachusetts MA47$930+54%$726 – $1,763
Illinois IL97$910+51%$327 – $1,332
South Dakota SD13$904+50%$519 – $978
Idaho ID18$884+47%$488 – $2,265
Connecticut CT20$860+43%$595 – $1,932
Pennsylvania PA107$845+40%$412 – $1,364
Utah UT34$831+38%$557 – $831
Oregon OR39$780+30%$438 – $986
Colorado CO50$770+28%$421 – $1,797
Washington WA50$768+28%$400 – $1,094
Ohio OH124$746+24%$491 – $1,316
New York NY88$738+23%$425 – $1,283
New Mexico NM15$721+20%$451 – $841
Hawaii HI14$708+18%$512 – $1,637
Rhode Island RI10$656+9%$388 – $1,340
New Jersey NJ55$636+6%$238 – $804
West Virginia WV21$628+4%$414 – $2,075
South Carolina SC46$6040%$390 – $864
Texas TX204$6020%$404 – $1,442
Missouri MO63$595−1%$356 – $889
Nevada NV13$594−1%$407 – $1,680
Virginia VA56$579−4%$324 – $867
Kansas KS45$508−16%$279 – $823
Minnesota MN58$507−16%$315 – $598
Iowa IA45$498−17%$337 – $729
Michigan MI76$491−18%$296 – $999
Maine ME20$452−25%$288 – $920
Montana MT10$446−26%$126 – $631
Indiana IN72$440−27%$269 – $933
Wyoming WY10$422−30%$346 – $666
New Hampshire NH14$419−30%$200 – $1,682
Arizona AZ46$403−33%$253 – $1,389
Kentucky KY47$398−34%$233 – $1,226
Alabama AL29$396−34%$213 – $786
North Dakota ND14$392−35%$144 – $964
Georgia GA79$389−35%$281 – $919
Oklahoma OK43$378−37%$245 – $896
North Carolina NC76$375−38%$235 – $562
Arkansas AR26$349−42%$217 – $548
Louisiana LA45$338−44%$183 – $661
Wisconsin WI89$332−45%$156 – $557
Tennessee TN69$276−54%$167 – $650
Mississippi MS38$263−56%$132 – $410
Maryland MD36$126−79%$77 – $241
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $602.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,118$611$325 – $1,327
Children’s50$699$416 – $1,177
Critical access412$496$221 – $974
Ownership
For-profit392$765$364 – $2,030
Government357$496$289 – $893
Non-profit1,831$607$306 – $1,167
System affiliation
Part of a system2,182$611$317 – $1,290
Independent408$520$264 – $1,048

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,081
Median cash price$602
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

1,866 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $604 and the average of the middle 60% is $646; most fall between $322 and $1,197.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,866 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
$214$362$604$1,035$1,632

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($214 vs $1,632).

Of the 2,057 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,866 gave a usable cash price; 99 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,590 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,860 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,590
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here170
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 — excluded99
Hospitals that filed this code2,860

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 Abscess/Fistula/Sinus Tract 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 a draining tract, fistula, or abscess (CPT 76080) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76080-x-ray-dye-study-of-a-draining-tract-fistula-or-abscess