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Procedure price report · Other CT scan

Unlisted CT scan procedure

CPT 76497the billing code this page is about

Used for a computed tomography study that has no specific billing code of its own; the charge depends on the exam actually performed.

Hospitals typically charge $437 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 941 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $530. Most fall between $143 and $1,471 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
941
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 941 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
$99$187$437$1,178$2,018

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($99 vs $2,018).

How the prices are spread

$64 – $94: 37 hospitals$64$94 – $139: 105 hospitals$139 – $206: 73 hospitals$139$206 – $305: 86 hospitals$305 – $451: 144 hospitals$305$451 – $667: 119 hospitals$667 – $987: 79 hospitals$667$987 – $1,461: 65 hospitals$1,461 – $2,161: 102 hospitals$1,461$2,161 – $3,196: 42 hospitals$2,161median $437price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (852 of 941 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$64$9437
$94$139105
$139$20673
$206$30586
$305$451144
$451$667119
$667$98779
$987$1,46165
$1,461$2,161102
$2,161$3,19642

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$437
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.9×

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 $437.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $200 across 12 hospitalsWA$200Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $895 across 33 hospitalsMN$895Illinois: median $883 across 39 hospitalsIL$883Wisconsin: median $542 across 57 hospitalsWI$542Michigan: median $289 across 40 hospitalsMI$289New York: median $207 across 39 hospitalsNY$207Massachusetts: median $410 across 20 hospitalsMA$410Oregon: median $191 across 15 hospitalsOR$191Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $121 across 28 hospitalsIN$121Ohio: median $691 across 65 hospitalsOH$691Pennsylvania: median $532 across 79 hospitalsPA$532New Jersey: median $98 across 22 hospitalsNJ$98Connecticut: median $235 across 13 hospitalsCT$235Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $468 across 75 hospitalsCA$468Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,545 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,545Missouri: median $408 across 18 hospitalsMO$408Kentucky: median $354 across 13 hospitalsKY$354West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $560 across 11 hospitalsVA$560Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $358 across 21 hospitalsTN$358North Carolina: median $501 across 25 hospitalsNC$501South Carolina: median $1,706 across 17 hospitalsSC$1,706Oklahoma: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: median $142 across 14 hospitalsLA$142Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,491 across 17 hospitalsGA$1,491Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $323 across 82 hospitalsTX$323Florida: median $1,084 across 50 hospitalsFL$1,084
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $437. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC17$1,706+291%$326 – $1,706
Nebraska NE13$1,545+254%$1,057 – $2,699
Georgia GA17$1,491+241%$509 – $1,491
Florida FL50$1,084+148%$164 – $2,415
Minnesota MN33$895+105%$414 – $4,097
Illinois IL39$883+102%$120 – $1,941
Ohio OH65$691+58%$46 – $1,815
Virginia VA11$560+28%$187 – $560
Wisconsin WI57$542+24%$340 – $1,774
Pennsylvania PA79$532+22%$175 – $1,031
North Carolina NC25$501+15%$350 – $1,269
California CA75$468+7%$372 – $921
Massachusetts MA20$410−6%$113 – $2,563
Missouri MO18$408−7%$221 – $671
Tennessee TN21$358−18%$211 – $560
Kentucky KY13$354−19%$110 – $792
Texas TX82$323−26%$196 – $863
Michigan MI40$289−34%$120 – $1,258
Connecticut CT13$235−46%$99 – $1,140
New York NY39$207−53%$104 – $904
Washington WA12$200−54%$160 – $219
Oregon OR15$191−56%$176 – $216
Louisiana LA14$142−68%$98 – $341
Indiana IN28$121−72%$87 – $325
New Jersey NJ22$98−78%$96 – $116
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $437.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care789$408$131 – $1,269
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access131$540$178 – $1,774
Ownership
For-profit98$326$114 – $1,540
Government119$400$120 – $1,197
Non-profit719$443$145 – $1,491
System affiliation
Part of a system836$443$161 – $1,491
Independent105$300$115 – $904

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$811
Median cash price$437
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

676 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $519 and the average of the middle 60% is $616; most fall between $200 and $1,518.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 676 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
$120$265$519$1,268$2,253

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $2,253).

Of the 737 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 676 gave a usable cash price; 33 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

941 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,033 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted941
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
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 — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,033

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 CT scan family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Unlisted Computed Tomography Procedure.

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, “Unlisted CT scan procedure (CPT 76497) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76497-unlisted-ct-scan-procedure