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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MR elastography scan to measure tissue stiffness

CPT 76391the billing code this page is about

A magnetic resonance scan, most often of the liver, that measures how stiff the tissue is; covers the imaging and its interpretation.

Hospitals typically charge $749 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 757 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $845. Most fall between $320 and $1,617 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
757
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 757 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
$243$384$749$1,423$2,273

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($243 vs $2,273).

How the prices are spread

$170 – $227: 40 hospitals$170$227 – $303: 71 hospitals$303 – $405: 54 hospitals$303$405 – $542: 71 hospitals$542 – $724: 101 hospitals$542$724 – $968: 58 hospitals$968 – $1,294: 102 hospitals$968$1,294 – $1,730: 89 hospitals$1,730 – $2,313: 72 hospitals$1,730$2,313 – $3,092: 32 hospitals$2,313median $749price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (690 of 757 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$170$22740
$227$30371
$303$40554
$405$54271
$542$724101
$724$96858
$968$1,294102
$1,294$1,73089
$1,730$2,31372
$2,313$3,09232

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$749
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $749.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $559 across 12 hospitalsWA$559Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $753 across 24 hospitalsMN$753Illinois: median $950 across 34 hospitalsIL$950Wisconsin: median $408 across 18 hospitalsWI$408Michigan: median $749 across 35 hospitalsMI$749New York: median $286 across 33 hospitalsNY$286Massachusetts: median $1,101 across 12 hospitalsMA$1,101Oregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $170 across 14 hospitalsIA$170Indiana: median $1,305 across 20 hospitalsIN$1,305Ohio: median $824 across 20 hospitalsOH$824Pennsylvania: median $580 across 38 hospitalsPA$580New Jersey: median $323 across 29 hospitalsNJ$323Connecticut: median $496 across 10 hospitalsCT$496Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,148 across 65 hospitalsCA$1,148Utah: median $1,268 across 22 hospitalsUT$1,268Colorado: median $667 across 14 hospitalsCO$667Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,003 across 22 hospitalsMO$1,003Kentucky: median $3,258 across 11 hospitalsKY$3,258West Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $739 across 24 hospitalsVA$739Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $876 across 23 hospitalsNC$876South Carolina: median $1,346 across 20 hospitalsSC$1,346Oklahoma: median $324 across 11 hospitalsOK$324Louisiana: median $295 across 18 hospitalsLA$295Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $641 across 38 hospitalsGA$641Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,067 across 75 hospitalsTX$1,067Florida: median $753 across 43 hospitalsFL$753
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $749. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY11$3,258+335%$352 – $3,258
South Carolina SC20$1,346+80%$202 – $1,346
Indiana IN20$1,305+74%$261 – $1,764
Utah UT22$1,268+69%$1,268 – $1,491
California CA65$1,148+53%$971 – $2,236
Massachusetts MA12$1,101+47%$729 – $8,268
Texas TX75$1,067+42%$604 – $1,737
Missouri MO22$1,003+34%$676 – $1,713
Illinois IL34$950+27%$250 – $3,703
North Carolina NC23$876+17%$307 – $1,026
Ohio OH20$824+10%$315 – $1,704
Florida FL43$7530%$452 – $1,324
Minnesota MN24$7530%$303 – $2,450
Michigan MI35$7490%$328 – $1,423
Virginia VA24$739−1%$501 – $1,128
Colorado CO14$667−11%$562 – $2,226
Georgia GA38$641−14%$451 – $1,321
Pennsylvania PA38$580−23%$282 – $1,003
Washington WA12$559−25%$446 – $1,000
Connecticut CT10$496−34%$382 – $1,229
Wisconsin WI18$408−46%$408 – $1,535
Oklahoma OK11$324−57%$324 – $1,336
New Jersey NJ29$323−57%$264 – $721
Louisiana LA18$295−61%$193 – $863
New York NY33$286−62%$283 – $2,048
Iowa IA14$170−77%$170 – $170
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $749.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care654$729$311 – $1,491
Children’s36$1,919$545 – $2,813
Critical access63$739$315 – $1,732
Ownership
For-profit60$921$550 – $2,050
Government75$604$275 – $1,026
Non-profit618$752$324 – $1,699
System affiliation
Part of a system689$749$323 – $1,535
Independent68$688$315 – $1,956

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,380
Median cash price$749
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

574 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $969 and the average of the middle 60% is $986; most fall between $451 and $1,737.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 574 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
$284$550$969$1,491$2,277

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($284 vs $2,277).

Of the 620 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 574 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

757 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 807 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted757
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code807

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 5, 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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Magnetic Resonance Elastography|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, “MR elastography scan to measure tissue stiffness (CPT 76391) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76391-mr-elastography-scan-to-measure-tissue-stiffness