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Procedure price report · Magnetic resonance imaging

MRI guidance for tumor or tissue ablation

CPT 77022the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging used to guide and monitor a probe that destroys tissue with heat or cold energy; covers the imaging guidance and monitoring only.

Hospitals typically charge $1,213 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 372 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,354. Most fall between $413 and $2,560 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
372
States
41
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 372 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
$285$507$1,213$2,429$3,249

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($285 vs $3,249).

How the prices are spread

$216 – $299: 22 hospitals$216$299 – $413: 34 hospitals$413 – $570: 38 hospitals$413$570 – $786: 33 hospitals$786 – $1,086: 25 hospitals$786$1,086 – $1,499: 40 hospitals$1,499 – $2,069: 35 hospitals$1,499$2,069 – $2,856: 77 hospitals$2,856 – $3,943: 19 hospitals$2,856$3,943 – $5,443: 14 hospitals$3,943median $1,213price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (337 of 372 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$216$29922
$299$41334
$413$57038
$570$78633
$786$1,08625
$1,086$1,49940
$1,499$2,06935
$2,069$2,85677
$2,856$3,94319
$3,943$5,44314

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,213.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $1,785 across 14 hospitalsWA$1,785Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $713 across 13 hospitalsIL$713Wisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $594 across 22 hospitalsNY$594Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $507 across 13 hospitalsIA$507Indiana: median $1,014 across 16 hospitalsIN$1,014Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $3,441 across 20 hospitalsPA$3,441New Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,660 across 52 hospitalsCA$2,660Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: median $90 across 10 hospitalsMD$90Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $335 across 21 hospitalsGA$335Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,395 across 46 hospitalsTX$2,395Florida: median $2,114 across 35 hospitalsFL$2,114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,213. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA20$3,441+184%$412 – $5,477
California CA52$2,660+119%$1,924 – $2,957
Texas TX46$2,395+97%$650 – $2,801
Florida FL35$2,114+74%$1,328 – $2,429
Washington WA14$1,785+47%$818 – $2,532
Indiana IN16$1,014−16%$880 – $1,443
Illinois IL13$713−41%$301 – $1,794
New York NY22$594−51%$287 – $2,405
Iowa IA13$507−58%$507 – $507
Georgia GA21$335−72%$335 – $1,465
Maryland MD10$90−93%$65 – $126
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,213.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care327$1,213$412 – $2,560
Children’s20$2,263$889 – $4,391
Critical access23$902$335 – $1,689
Ownership
For-profit41$1,465$335 – $3,527
Government46$809$493 – $1,510
Non-profit283$1,328$427 – $2,660
System affiliation
Part of a system330$1,324$404 – $2,514
Independent42$889$505 – $3,527

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,030
Median cash price$1,213
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

288 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,465 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,582; most fall between $493 and $2,660.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 288 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
$335$507$1,465$2,429$3,279

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($335 vs $3,279).

Of the 343 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 288 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

372 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 452 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted372
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code452

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 Magnetic resonance imaging family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MRI Guidance for Parenchymal Tissue Ablation|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, “MRI guidance for tumor or tissue ablation (CPT 77022) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77022-mri-guidance-for-tumor-or-tissue-ablation