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Review of outside imaging with written report

CPT 76140the billing code this page is about

Covers a radiologist reviewing X-rays or other images taken at another facility and issuing a written report, without repeating the scan.

Hospitals typically charge $48 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 227 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $60. Most fall between $29 and $142 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
227
States
38
Filings dated
Jan 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 227 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$34$48$117$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $255).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $12: 5 hospitals$8$12 – $17: 8 hospitals$17 – $25: 12 hospitals$17$25 – $37: 36 hospitals$37 – $54: 54 hospitals$37$54 – $78: 26 hospitals$78 – $115: 20 hospitals$78$115 – $169: 15 hospitals$169 – $247: 18 hospitals$169$247 – $362: 13 hospitals$247median $48price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (207 of 227 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$125
$12$178
$17$2512
$25$3736
$37$5454
$54$7826
$78$11520
$115$16915
$169$24718
$247$36213

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $48.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $34 across 10 hospitalsIL$34Wisconsin: 3 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 $165 across 11 hospitalsNY$165Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $36 across 17 hospitalsIA$36Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $20 across 12 hospitalsPA$20New Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $41 across 40 hospitalsCA$41Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $75 across 18 hospitalsTX$75Florida: median $48 across 16 hospitalsFL$48
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $48. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY11$165+244%$48 – $239
Texas TX18$75+56%$8 – $362
Florida FL16$480%$48 – $92
California CA40$41−15%$41 – $202
Iowa IA17$36−25%$36 – $54
Illinois IL10$34−30%$34 – $118
Pennsylvania PA12$20−58%$19 – $75
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $48.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care189$48$29 – $159
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access26$51$28 – $96
Ownership
For-profit29$90$34 – $217
Government33$60$28 – $145
Non-profit165$41$26 – $118
System affiliation
Part of a system179$43$28 – $133
Independent48$68$29 – $178

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$83
Median cash price$48
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

165 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $48 and the average of the middle 60% is $60; most fall between $34 and $178.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 165 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
$23$36$48$133$362

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $362).

Of the 213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 165 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

227 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 303 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted227
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded46
Hospitals that filed this code303

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 PR Occ Hlth Spec Serv - B Level Read.

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, “Review of outside imaging with written report (CPT 76140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76140-review-of-outside-imaging-with-written-report