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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-rays to estimate bone age in a child

CPT 77072the billing code this page is about

X-ray study, usually of the hand and wrist, used to judge skeletal maturity compared with the child's actual age.

Hospitals typically charge $217 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,138 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $227. Most fall between $121 and $388 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,138
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,138 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
$87$137$217$350$611

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $611).

How the prices are spread

$65 – $84: 131 hospitals$65$84 – $110: 225 hospitals$110 – $143: 354 hospitals$110$143 – $185: 421 hospitals$185 – $241: 463 hospitals$185$241 – $313: 502 hospitals$313 – $406: 304 hospitals$313$406 – $527: 207 hospitals$527 – $685: 120 hospitals$527$685 – $890: 99 hospitals$685median $217price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,826 of 3,138 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$65$84131
$84$110225
$110$143354
$143$185421
$185$241463
$241$313502
$313$406304
$406$527207
$527$685120
$685$89099

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$217
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 $217.

Alaska: median $261 across 16 hospitalsAK$261Maine: median $171 across 25 hospitalsME$171Vermont: median $475 across 12 hospitalsVT$475New Hampshire: median $231 across 21 hospitalsNH$231Washington: median $226 across 68 hospitalsWA$226Idaho: median $324 across 18 hospitalsID$324Montana: median $186 across 18 hospitalsMT$186North Dakota: median $149 across 19 hospitalsND$149Minnesota: median $159 across 87 hospitalsMN$159Illinois: median $270 across 123 hospitalsIL$270Wisconsin: median $159 across 104 hospitalsWI$159Michigan: median $193 across 80 hospitalsMI$193New York: median $188 across 112 hospitalsNY$188Massachusetts: median $288 across 52 hospitalsMA$288Oregon: median $247 across 44 hospitalsOR$247Nevada: median $177 across 16 hospitalsNV$177Wyoming: median $227 across 12 hospitalsWY$227South Dakota: median $316 across 20 hospitalsSD$316Iowa: median $204 across 76 hospitalsIA$204Indiana: median $178 across 94 hospitalsIN$178Ohio: median $235 across 140 hospitalsOH$235Pennsylvania: median $263 across 107 hospitalsPA$263New Jersey: median $135 across 57 hospitalsNJ$135Connecticut: median $254 across 21 hospitalsCT$254Rhode Island: median $261 across 10 hospitalsRI$261California: median $325 across 207 hospitalsCA$325Utah: median $250 across 38 hospitalsUT$250Colorado: median $206 across 63 hospitalsCO$206Nebraska: median $200 across 66 hospitalsNE$200Missouri: median $199 across 74 hospitalsMO$199Kentucky: median $238 across 65 hospitalsKY$238West Virginia: median $207 across 43 hospitalsWV$207Virginia: median $198 across 69 hospitalsVA$198Maryland: median $127 across 37 hospitalsMD$127Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $140 across 47 hospitalsAZ$140New Mexico: median $178 across 26 hospitalsNM$178Kansas: median $181 across 73 hospitalsKS$181Arkansas: median $101 across 30 hospitalsAR$101Tennessee: median $138 across 74 hospitalsTN$138North Carolina: median $195 across 94 hospitalsNC$195South Carolina: median $226 across 53 hospitalsSC$226Oklahoma: median $190 across 59 hospitalsOK$190Louisiana: median $114 across 52 hospitalsLA$114Mississippi: median $112 across 47 hospitalsMS$112Alabama: median $160 across 41 hospitalsAL$160Georgia: median $149 across 108 hospitalsGA$149Hawaii: median $247 across 19 hospitalsHI$247Texas: median $293 across 227 hospitalsTX$293Florida: median $426 across 168 hospitalsFL$426
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $217. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$475+119%$328 – $670
Florida FL168$426+96%$198 – $1,292
California CA207$325+50%$164 – $599
Idaho ID18$324+49%$217 – $441
South Dakota SD20$316+46%$257 – $386
Texas TX227$293+35%$144 – $647
Massachusetts MA52$288+33%$191 – $471
Illinois IL123$270+24%$101 – $463
Pennsylvania PA107$263+21%$139 – $512
Alaska AK16$261+20%$93 – $558
Rhode Island RI10$261+20%$149 – $286
Connecticut CT21$254+17%$190 – $327
Utah UT38$250+15%$250 – $384
Hawaii HI19$247+14%$219 – $378
Oregon OR44$247+14%$161 – $320
Kentucky KY65$238+9%$123 – $427
Ohio OH140$235+8%$184 – $407
New Hampshire NH21$231+6%$174 – $434
Wyoming WY12$227+4%$145 – $373
South Carolina SC53$226+4%$164 – $310
Washington WA68$226+4%$150 – $358
West Virginia WV43$207−5%$120 – $348
Colorado CO63$206−5%$131 – $311
Iowa IA76$204−6%$130 – $272
Nebraska NE66$200−8%$116 – $276
Missouri MO74$199−9%$158 – $299
Virginia VA69$198−9%$92 – $512
North Carolina NC94$195−10%$134 – $297
Michigan MI80$193−11%$112 – $383
Oklahoma OK59$190−12%$113 – $272
New York NY112$188−13%$86 – $339
Montana MT18$186−15%$134 – $278
Kansas KS73$181−17%$128 – $299
Indiana IN94$178−18%$108 – $286
New Mexico NM26$178−18%$151 – $250
Nevada NV16$177−19%$113 – $420
Maine ME25$171−21%$107 – $366
Alabama AL41$160−26%$122 – $294
Wisconsin WI104$159−27%$92 – $293
Minnesota MN87$159−27%$128 – $222
Georgia GA108$149−31%$88 – $368
North Dakota ND19$149−31%$86 – $265
Arizona AZ47$140−35%$85 – $636
Tennessee TN74$138−36%$71 – $234
New Jersey NJ57$135−38%$86 – $243
Maryland MD37$127−41%$85 – $164
Louisiana LA52$114−48%$78 – $233
Mississippi MS47$112−49%$57 – $187
Arkansas AR30$101−54%$53 – $213
Delaware DE6not 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 $217.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,288$221$121 – $427
Children’s68$270$170 – $389
Critical access772$205$117 – $301
Ownership
For-profit450$327$139 – $939
Government543$191$114 – $298
Non-profit2,135$214$120 – $374
System affiliation
Part of a system2,587$223$125 – $407
Independent551$196$107 – $327

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$369
Median cash price$217
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

2,154 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $230 and the average of the middle 60% is $238; most fall between $125 and $389.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,154 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
$90$142$230$366$519

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($90 vs $519).

Of the 2,379 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,154 gave a usable cash price; 122 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,138 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,466 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,138
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here213
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,466

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 July 20, 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 Bone Age Studies|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, “X-rays to estimate bone age in a child (CPT 77072) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77072-x-rays-to-estimate-bone-age-in-a-child