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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

X-rays to measure leg or bone length

CPT 77073the billing code this page is about

X-ray study that measures the length of the long bones, often to compare one leg with the other.

Hospitals typically charge $265 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,770 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $281. Most fall between $137 and $497 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,770
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 2,770 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
$95$156$265$445$715

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $715).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $90: 122 hospitals$69$90 – $118: 153 hospitals$118 – $154: 267 hospitals$118$154 – $200: 269 hospitals$200 – $261: 421 hospitals$200$261 – $341: 380 hospitals$341 – $445: 330 hospitals$341$445 – $581: 279 hospitals$581 – $757: 155 hospitals$581$757 – $988: 119 hospitals$757median $265price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,495 of 2,770 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$90122
$90$118153
$118$154267
$154$200269
$200$261421
$261$341380
$341$445330
$445$581279
$581$757155
$757$988119

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$265
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $265.

Alaska: median $534 across 14 hospitalsAK$534Maine: median $254 across 25 hospitalsME$254Vermont: median $453 across 10 hospitalsVT$453New Hampshire: median $284 across 20 hospitalsNH$284Washington: median $288 across 61 hospitalsWA$288Idaho: median $355 across 21 hospitalsID$355Montana: median $313 across 13 hospitalsMT$313North Dakota: median $162 across 15 hospitalsND$162Minnesota: median $209 across 64 hospitalsMN$209Illinois: median $401 across 109 hospitalsIL$401Wisconsin: median $237 across 97 hospitalsWI$237Michigan: median $186 across 83 hospitalsMI$186New York: median $174 across 106 hospitalsNY$174Massachusetts: median $321 across 48 hospitalsMA$321Oregon: median $261 across 43 hospitalsOR$261Nevada: median $324 across 16 hospitalsNV$324Wyoming: median $403 across 11 hospitalsWY$403South Dakota: median $395 across 16 hospitalsSD$395Iowa: median $242 across 52 hospitalsIA$242Indiana: median $265 across 90 hospitalsIN$265Ohio: median $287 across 136 hospitalsOH$287Pennsylvania: median $353 across 100 hospitalsPA$353New Jersey: median $140 across 55 hospitalsNJ$140Connecticut: median $253 across 18 hospitalsCT$253Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $398 across 210 hospitalsCA$398Utah: median $491 across 39 hospitalsUT$491Colorado: median $283 across 57 hospitalsCO$283Nebraska: median $275 across 44 hospitalsNE$275Missouri: median $209 across 66 hospitalsMO$209Kentucky: median $254 across 47 hospitalsKY$254West Virginia: median $221 across 30 hospitalsWV$221Virginia: median $200 across 62 hospitalsVA$200Maryland: median $151 across 35 hospitalsMD$151Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $159 across 49 hospitalsAZ$159New Mexico: median $247 across 24 hospitalsNM$247Kansas: median $289 across 44 hospitalsKS$289Arkansas: median $177 across 19 hospitalsAR$177Tennessee: median $130 across 64 hospitalsTN$130North Carolina: median $210 across 78 hospitalsNC$210South Carolina: median $248 across 50 hospitalsSC$248Oklahoma: median $162 across 35 hospitalsOK$162Louisiana: median $146 across 48 hospitalsLA$146Mississippi: median $129 across 40 hospitalsMS$129Alabama: median $166 across 30 hospitalsAL$166Georgia: median $158 across 95 hospitalsGA$158Hawaii: median $317 across 19 hospitalsHI$317Texas: median $340 across 203 hospitalsTX$340Florida: median $566 across 146 hospitalsFL$566
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $265. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL146$566+114%$215 – $1,166
Alaska AK14$534+101%$224 – $903
Utah UT39$491+85%$292 – $491
Vermont VT10$453+71%$232 – $682
Wyoming WY11$403+52%$247 – $445
Illinois IL109$401+51%$156 – $663
California CA210$398+50%$234 – $705
South Dakota SD16$395+49%$370 – $576
Idaho ID21$355+34%$217 – $441
Pennsylvania PA100$353+33%$156 – $579
Texas TX203$340+28%$211 – $679
Nevada NV16$324+22%$208 – $740
Massachusetts MA48$321+21%$210 – $478
Hawaii HI19$317+20%$214 – $545
Montana MT13$313+18%$179 – $400
Kansas KS44$289+9%$102 – $395
Washington WA61$288+9%$172 – $442
Ohio OH136$287+8%$202 – $468
New Hampshire NH20$284+7%$250 – $523
Colorado CO57$283+7%$105 – $491
Nebraska NE44$275+4%$153 – $385
Indiana IN90$2650%$160 – $333
Oregon OR43$261−1%$203 – $392
Kentucky KY47$254−4%$128 – $598
Maine ME25$254−4%$103 – $422
Connecticut CT18$253−5%$215 – $466
South Carolina SC50$248−6%$209 – $413
New Mexico NM24$247−7%$178 – $379
Iowa IA52$242−9%$155 – $337
Wisconsin WI97$237−11%$146 – $350
West Virginia WV30$221−17%$175 – $357
North Carolina NC78$210−21%$145 – $294
Missouri MO66$209−21%$149 – $402
Minnesota MN64$209−21%$81 – $301
Virginia VA62$200−24%$135 – $584
Michigan MI83$186−30%$141 – $457
Arkansas AR19$177−33%$69 – $235
New York NY106$174−34%$126 – $470
Alabama AL30$166−37%$106 – $328
North Dakota ND15$162−39%$117 – $265
Oklahoma OK35$162−39%$84 – $252
Arizona AZ49$159−40%$93 – $779
Georgia GA95$158−41%$86 – $407
Maryland MD35$151−43%$39 – $214
Louisiana LA48$146−45%$70 – $249
New Jersey NJ55$140−47%$116 – $243
Tennessee TN64$130−51%$67 – $235
Mississippi MS40$129−52%$81 – $200
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $265.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,146$260$131 – $522
Children’s66$330$249 – $642
Critical access548$270$151 – $414
Ownership
For-profit399$361$151 – $1,031
Government418$238$125 – $398
Non-profit1,943$261$140 – $479
System affiliation
Part of a system2,296$267$141 – $511
Independent474$254$121 – $446

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$456
Median cash price$265
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

1,968 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $282 and the average of the middle 60% is $296; most fall between $149 and $491.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,968 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
$102$174$282$450$632

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($102 vs $632).

Of the 2,176 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,968 gave a usable cash price; 113 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 95 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,770 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,071 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,770
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here196
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 — excluded104
Hospitals that filed this code3,071

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 Bone Length Studies.

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 measure leg or bone length (CPT 77073) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77073-x-rays-to-measure-leg-or-bone-length