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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

Unlisted MRI procedure

CPT 76498the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $830 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,274 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,008. Most fall between $251 and $2,393 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,274
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 1,274 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
$128$348$830$1,971$3,743

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $3,743).

How the prices are spread

$98 – $147: 91 hospitals$98$147 – $220: 89 hospitals$220 – $329: 63 hospitals$220$329 – $492: 144 hospitals$492 – $736: 132 hospitals$492$736 – $1,100: 129 hospitals$1,100 – $1,646: 171 hospitals$1,100$1,646 – $2,463: 147 hospitals$2,463 – $3,684: 114 hospitals$2,463$3,684 – $5,511: 68 hospitals$3,684median $830price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,148 of 1,274 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$98$14791
$147$22089
$220$32963
$329$492144
$492$736132
$736$1,100129
$1,100$1,646171
$1,646$2,463147
$2,463$3,684114
$3,684$5,51168

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$830
Cash as a multiple of Medicare9.3×

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 $830.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 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 $1,393 across 32 hospitalsWA$1,393Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,871 across 39 hospitalsMN$1,871Illinois: median $1,350 across 55 hospitalsIL$1,350Wisconsin: median $1,413 across 69 hospitalsWI$1,413Michigan: median $1,971 across 38 hospitalsMI$1,971New York: median $543 across 55 hospitalsNY$543Massachusetts: median $399 across 22 hospitalsMA$399Oregon: median $263 across 14 hospitalsOR$263Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $427 across 34 hospitalsIN$427Ohio: median $442 across 68 hospitalsOH$442Pennsylvania: median $416 across 75 hospitalsPA$416New Jersey: median $117 across 37 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $368 across 84 hospitalsCA$368Utah: median $2,915 across 24 hospitalsUT$2,915Colorado: median $1,288 across 32 hospitalsCO$1,288Nebraska: median $768 across 22 hospitalsNE$768Missouri: median $1,186 across 21 hospitalsMO$1,186Kentucky: median $764 across 23 hospitalsKY$764West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,163 across 31 hospitalsVA$1,163Maryland: median $1,033 across 12 hospitalsMD$1,033Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,352 across 16 hospitalsAZ$4,352New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $581 across 11 hospitalsAR$581Tennessee: median $382 across 29 hospitalsTN$382North Carolina: median $488 across 39 hospitalsNC$488South Carolina: median $1,654 across 25 hospitalsSC$1,654Oklahoma: median $942 across 11 hospitalsOK$942Louisiana: median $387 across 14 hospitalsLA$387Mississippi: median $414 across 14 hospitalsMS$414Alabama: median $828 across 12 hospitalsAL$828Georgia: median $684 across 54 hospitalsGA$684Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,728 across 91 hospitalsTX$1,728Florida: median $1,634 across 75 hospitalsFL$1,634
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $830. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ16$4,352+424%$639 – $6,290
Utah UT24$2,915+251%$2,915 – $3,430
Michigan MI38$1,971+137%$120 – $4,440
Minnesota MN39$1,871+125%$832 – $2,772
Texas TX91$1,728+108%$652 – $2,787
South Carolina SC25$1,654+99%$1,081 – $1,654
Florida FL75$1,634+97%$190 – $4,526
Wisconsin WI69$1,413+70%$391 – $2,706
Washington WA32$1,393+68%$377 – $5,513
Illinois IL55$1,350+63%$462 – $2,391
Colorado CO32$1,288+55%$494 – $2,225
Missouri MO21$1,186+43%$523 – $1,785
Virginia VA31$1,163+40%$693 – $1,428
Maryland MD12$1,033+24%$706 – $1,632
Oklahoma OK11$942+13%$471 – $942
Alabama AL12$8280%$828 – $1,738
Nebraska NE22$768−7%$284 – $2,000
Kentucky KY23$764−8%$354 – $3,258
Georgia GA54$684−18%$400 – $2,300
Arkansas AR11$581−30%$249 – $1,200
New York NY55$543−35%$104 – $1,104
North Carolina NC39$488−41%$134 – $1,134
Ohio OH68$442−47%$147 – $1,616
Indiana IN34$427−49%$241 – $1,058
Pennsylvania PA75$416−50%$137 – $1,404
Mississippi MS14$414−50%$348 – $612
Massachusetts MA22$399−52%$313 – $1,544
Louisiana LA14$387−53%$261 – $924
Tennessee TN29$382−54%$65 – $737
California CA84$368−56%$293 – $1,461
Oregon OR14$263−68%$263 – $1,138
New Jersey NJ37$117−86%$100 – $1,250
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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 $830.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,090$803$230 – $2,233
Children’s44$2,013$936 – $3,743
Critical access132$1,096$308 – $3,044
Ownership
For-profit127$1,242$345 – $4,161
Government152$789$350 – $1,886
Non-profit987$830$212 – $2,360
System affiliation
Part of a system1,133$830$275 – $2,399
Independent141$822$200 – $2,170

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,738
Median cash price$830
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

932 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $897 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,072; most fall between $344 and $2,522.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 932 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
$170$368$897$2,048$3,743

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($170 vs $3,743).

Of the 1,022 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 932 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 5 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,274 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,386 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,274
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded5
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code1,386

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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR MRI Whole Body C/T 78816|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, “Unlisted MRI procedure (CPT 76498) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76498-unlisted-mri-procedure