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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Unlisted diagnostic imaging procedure

CPT 76499the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $179 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,266 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $223. Most fall between $85 and $526 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,266
States
50
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 1,266 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
$52$94$179$440$845

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($52 vs $845).

How the prices are spread

$37 – $54: 72 hospitals$37$54 – $78: 92 hospitals$78 – $112: 185 hospitals$78$112 – $162: 182 hospitals$162 – $235: 127 hospitals$162$235 – $340: 153 hospitals$340 – $491: 106 hospitals$340$491 – $711: 118 hospitals$711 – $1,028: 75 hospitals$711$1,028 – $1,487: 31 hospitals$1,028median $179price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,141 of 1,266 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$37$5472
$54$7892
$78$112185
$112$162182
$162$235127
$235$340153
$340$491106
$491$711118
$711$1,02875
$1,028$1,48731

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$179
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.0×

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 $179.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $190 across 26 hospitalsWA$190Idaho: median $100 across 14 hospitalsID$100Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $119 across 47 hospitalsMN$119Illinois: median $160 across 49 hospitalsIL$160Wisconsin: median $153 across 46 hospitalsWI$153Michigan: median $120 across 24 hospitalsMI$120New York: median $109 across 44 hospitalsNY$109Massachusetts: median $307 across 24 hospitalsMA$307Oregon: median $239 across 22 hospitalsOR$239Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $46 across 10 hospitalsIA$46Indiana: median $118 across 24 hospitalsIN$118Ohio: median $477 across 68 hospitalsOH$477Pennsylvania: median $180 across 60 hospitalsPA$180New Jersey: median $104 across 29 hospitalsNJ$104Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $164 across 98 hospitalsCA$164Utah: median $92 across 27 hospitalsUT$92Colorado: median $462 across 35 hospitalsCO$462Nebraska: median $61 across 15 hospitalsNE$61Missouri: median $179 across 20 hospitalsMO$179Kentucky: median $451 across 25 hospitalsKY$451West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $181 across 22 hospitalsVA$181Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $142 across 12 hospitalsAZ$142New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $256 across 20 hospitalsKS$256Arkansas: median $79 across 12 hospitalsAR$79Tennessee: median $87 across 28 hospitalsTN$87North Carolina: median $326 across 35 hospitalsNC$326South Carolina: median $272 across 26 hospitalsSC$272Oklahoma: median $94 across 26 hospitalsOK$94Louisiana: median $68 across 25 hospitalsLA$68Mississippi: median $64 across 15 hospitalsMS$64Alabama: median $155 across 15 hospitalsAL$155Georgia: median $518 across 52 hospitalsGA$518Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $267 across 119 hospitalsTX$267Florida: median $277 across 68 hospitalsFL$277
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $179. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA52$518+189%$146 – $526
Ohio OH68$477+166%$102 – $599
Colorado CO35$462+158%$99 – $3,717
Kentucky KY25$451+152%$113 – $979
North Carolina NC35$326+82%$109 – $786
Massachusetts MA24$307+71%$186 – $788
Florida FL68$277+54%$115 – $666
South Carolina SC26$272+52%$53 – $534
Texas TX119$267+49%$100 – $979
Kansas KS20$256+43%$68 – $594
Oregon OR22$239+34%$112 – $721
Washington WA26$190+6%$37 – $591
Virginia VA22$181+1%$106 – $515
Pennsylvania PA60$1800%$103 – $411
Missouri MO20$1790%$38 – $257
California CA98$164−8%$137 – $513
Illinois IL49$160−11%$70 – $412
Alabama AL15$155−14%$61 – $305
Wisconsin WI46$153−15%$47 – $590
Arizona AZ12$142−21%$107 – $370
Michigan MI24$120−33%$73 – $783
Minnesota MN47$119−34%$44 – $176
Indiana IN24$118−34%$87 – $218
New York NY44$109−39%$103 – $248
New Jersey NJ29$104−42%$96 – $252
Idaho ID14$100−44%$63 – $806
Oklahoma OK26$94−48%$59 – $211
Utah UT27$92−49%$92 – $92
Tennessee TN28$87−51%$64 – $255
Arkansas AR12$79−56%$45 – $92
Louisiana LA25$68−62%$32 – $185
Mississippi MS15$64−64%$39 – $105
Nebraska NE15$61−66%$23 – $125
Iowa IA10$46−75%$23 – $95
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $179.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,054$180$86 – $524
Children’s47$295$201 – $845
Critical access162$140$67 – $340
Ownership
For-profit174$251$92 – $806
Government178$169$78 – $389
Non-profit911$178$85 – $534
System affiliation
Part of a system1,071$180$86 – $530
Independent195$160$76 – $466

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$321
Median cash price$179
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

897 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $214 and the average of the middle 60% is $252; most fall between $90 and $534.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 897 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
$55$101$214$482$809

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $809).

Of the 1,006 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 897 gave a usable cash price; 63 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,266 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 1,425 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,266
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here102
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,425

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 Unlisted Diagnostic Radiographic 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 diagnostic imaging procedure (CPT 76499) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76499-unlisted-diagnostic-imaging-procedure