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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic radiology and related techniques

Bone density scan of hip, pelvis or spine

CPT 77080the billing code this page is about

Low-dose X-ray (DXA) scan measuring bone mineral density at one or more sites of the central skeleton, such as the hip, pelvis or spine.

Hospitals typically charge $352 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,033 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $358. Most fall between $175 and $588 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,033
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 3,033 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
$118$211$352$525$804

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $804).

How the prices are spread

$92 – $118: 148 hospitals$92$118 – $151: 191 hospitals$151 – $193: 195 hospitals$151$193 – $247: 298 hospitals$247 – $316: 385 hospitals$247$316 – $405: 413 hospitals$405 – $518: 474 hospitals$405$518 – $663: 327 hospitals$663 – $848: 175 hospitals$663$848 – $1,086: 126 hospitals$848median $352price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,732 of 3,033 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$92$118148
$118$151191
$151$193195
$193$247298
$247$316385
$316$405413
$405$518474
$518$663327
$663$848175
$848$1,086126

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$352
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.3×

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 $352.

Alaska: median $398 across 14 hospitalsAK$398Maine: median $228 across 24 hospitalsME$228Vermont: median $649 across 12 hospitalsVT$649New Hampshire: median $415 across 22 hospitalsNH$415Washington: median $368 across 60 hospitalsWA$368Idaho: median $387 across 20 hospitalsID$387Montana: median $295 across 17 hospitalsMT$295North Dakota: median $268 across 33 hospitalsND$268Minnesota: median $300 across 91 hospitalsMN$300Illinois: median $477 across 120 hospitalsIL$477Wisconsin: median $304 across 98 hospitalsWI$304Michigan: median $304 across 85 hospitalsMI$304New York: median $240 across 113 hospitalsNY$240Massachusetts: median $495 across 52 hospitalsMA$495Oregon: median $343 across 44 hospitalsOR$343Nevada: median $274 across 12 hospitalsNV$274Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $509 across 39 hospitalsSD$509Iowa: median $396 across 85 hospitalsIA$396Indiana: median $282 across 86 hospitalsIN$282Ohio: median $426 across 140 hospitalsOH$426Pennsylvania: median $240 across 110 hospitalsPA$240New Jersey: median $146 across 56 hospitalsNJ$146Connecticut: median $258 across 20 hospitalsCT$258Rhode Island: median $379 across 10 hospitalsRI$379California: median $482 across 174 hospitalsCA$482Utah: median $456 across 37 hospitalsUT$456Colorado: median $391 across 60 hospitalsCO$391Nebraska: median $451 across 71 hospitalsNE$451Missouri: median $281 across 72 hospitalsMO$281Kentucky: median $387 across 63 hospitalsKY$387West Virginia: median $332 across 39 hospitalsWV$332Virginia: median $566 across 68 hospitalsVA$566Maryland: median $328 across 23 hospitalsMD$328Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $286 across 40 hospitalsAZ$286New Mexico: median $307 across 26 hospitalsNM$307Kansas: median $269 across 78 hospitalsKS$269Arkansas: median $104 across 31 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $161 across 76 hospitalsTN$161North Carolina: median $368 across 89 hospitalsNC$368South Carolina: median $397 across 51 hospitalsSC$397Oklahoma: median $187 across 56 hospitalsOK$187Louisiana: median $174 across 53 hospitalsLA$174Mississippi: median $230 across 44 hospitalsMS$230Alabama: median $281 across 36 hospitalsAL$281Georgia: median $385 across 98 hospitalsGA$385Hawaii: median $291 across 14 hospitalsHI$291Texas: median $399 across 206 hospitalsTX$399Florida: median $597 across 150 hospitalsFL$597
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $352. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Vermont VT12$649+84%$425 – $797
Florida FL150$597+69%$226 – $1,476
Virginia VA68$566+61%$330 – $898
South Dakota SD39$509+44%$202 – $700
Massachusetts MA52$495+41%$331 – $734
California CA174$482+37%$243 – $852
Illinois IL120$477+36%$219 – $704
Utah UT37$456+29%$337 – $540
Nebraska NE71$451+28%$280 – $542
Ohio OH140$426+21%$256 – $507
New Hampshire NH22$415+18%$283 – $942
Texas TX206$399+13%$237 – $710
Alaska AK14$398+13%$245 – $620
South Carolina SC51$397+13%$290 – $618
Iowa IA85$396+12%$283 – $474
Colorado CO60$391+11%$257 – $608
Idaho ID20$387+10%$266 – $441
Kentucky KY63$387+10%$198 – $550
Georgia GA98$385+9%$147 – $649
Rhode Island RI10$379+8%$149 – $412
Washington WA60$368+4%$203 – $464
North Carolina NC89$368+4%$199 – $532
Oregon OR44$343−3%$133 – $494
West Virginia WV39$332−6%$244 – $545
Maryland MD23$328−7%$226 – $410
New Mexico NM26$307−13%$190 – $477
Michigan MI85$304−14%$202 – $587
Wisconsin WI98$304−14%$183 – $501
Minnesota MN91$300−15%$148 – $530
Montana MT17$295−16%$228 – $391
Hawaii HI14$291−18%$250 – $320
Arizona AZ40$286−19%$131 – $1,326
Indiana IN86$282−20%$183 – $438
Alabama AL36$281−20%$162 – $539
Missouri MO72$281−20%$192 – $433
Nevada NV12$274−22%$113 – $687
Kansas KS78$269−24%$195 – $424
North Dakota ND33$268−24%$188 – $433
Connecticut CT20$258−27%$216 – $399
New York NY113$240−32%$108 – $739
Pennsylvania PA110$240−32%$149 – $404
Mississippi MS44$230−35%$132 – $351
Maine ME24$228−35%$122 – $433
Oklahoma OK56$187−47%$109 – $335
Louisiana LA53$174−51%$100 – $397
Tennessee TN76$161−54%$101 – $306
New Jersey NJ56$146−59%$118 – $382
Arkansas AR31$104−71%$98 – $313
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $352.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,157$351$168 – $619
Children’s60$470$288 – $769
Critical access806$350$195 – $526
Ownership
For-profit400$442$189 – $1,128
Government534$323$164 – $529
Non-profit2,089$350$175 – $559
System affiliation
Part of a system2,505$364$178 – $592
Independent528$304$158 – $547

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$592
Median cash price$352
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,096 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $382 and the average of the middle 60% is $379; most fall between $203 and $588.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,096 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
$137$237$382$534$768

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $768).

Of the 2,315 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,096 gave a usable cash price; 124 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

3,033 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,353 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,033
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here215
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 code3,353

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 DXA Bone Density Study 1/> Sites Axial Skel.

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, “Bone density scan of hip, pelvis or spine (CPT 77080) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77080-bone-density-scan-of-hip-pelvis-or-spine