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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Verification images during radiation therapy

CPT 77417the billing code this page is about

X-ray images taken to confirm the treatment field is lined up correctly; billed once for about every five treatment sessions.

Hospitals typically charge $226 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,643 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $231. Most fall between $102 and $405 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,643
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 1,643 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$121$226$367$571

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($52 vs $571).

How the prices are spread

$30 – $43: 41 hospitals$30$43 – $60: 65 hospitals$60 – $84: 86 hospitals$60$84 – $117: 132 hospitals$117 – $165: 189 hospitals$117$165 – $231: 259 hospitals$231 – $323: 294 hospitals$231$323 – $453: 218 hospitals$453 – $635: 137 hospitals$453$635 – $891: 59 hospitals$635median $226price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,480 of 1,643 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$30$4341
$43$6065
$60$8486
$84$117132
$117$165189
$165$231259
$231$323294
$323$453218
$453$635137
$635$89159

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $226.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $166 across 41 hospitalsWA$166Idaho: median $317 across 11 hospitalsID$317Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $179 across 45 hospitalsMN$179Illinois: median $314 across 70 hospitalsIL$314Wisconsin: median $193 across 62 hospitalsWI$193Michigan: median $218 across 48 hospitalsMI$218New York: median $223 across 47 hospitalsNY$223Massachusetts: median $150 across 31 hospitalsMA$150Oregon: median $200 across 27 hospitalsOR$200Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $167 across 26 hospitalsIA$167Indiana: median $191 across 58 hospitalsIN$191Ohio: median $314 across 81 hospitalsOH$314Pennsylvania: median $158 across 84 hospitalsPA$158New Jersey: median $177 across 33 hospitalsNJ$177Connecticut: median $324 across 15 hospitalsCT$324Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $480 across 113 hospitalsCA$480Utah: median $177 across 19 hospitalsUT$177Colorado: median $255 across 36 hospitalsCO$255Nebraska: median $275 across 17 hospitalsNE$275Missouri: median $317 across 36 hospitalsMO$317Kentucky: median $298 across 29 hospitalsKY$298West Virginia: median $105 across 15 hospitalsWV$105Virginia: median $200 across 46 hospitalsVA$200Maryland: median $47 across 30 hospitalsMD$47Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $163 across 13 hospitalsAZ$163New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $252 across 16 hospitalsKS$252Arkansas: median $46 across 11 hospitalsAR$46Tennessee: median $85 across 42 hospitalsTN$85North Carolina: median $280 across 55 hospitalsNC$280South Carolina: median $239 across 37 hospitalsSC$239Oklahoma: median $128 across 24 hospitalsOK$128Louisiana: median $68 across 28 hospitalsLA$68Mississippi: median $87 across 26 hospitalsMS$87Alabama: median $108 across 22 hospitalsAL$108Georgia: median $260 across 68 hospitalsGA$260Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $175 across 123 hospitalsTX$175Florida: median $280 across 92 hospitalsFL$280
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $226. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA113$480+112%$273 – $949
Connecticut CT15$324+43%$58 – $326
Missouri MO36$317+40%$142 – $452
Idaho ID11$317+40%$248 – $389
Illinois IL70$314+39%$138 – $491
Ohio OH81$314+39%$177 – $545
Kentucky KY29$298+32%$52 – $405
Florida FL92$280+24%$150 – $393
North Carolina NC55$280+24%$155 – $354
Nebraska NE17$275+21%$216 – $368
Georgia GA68$260+15%$192 – $375
Colorado CO36$255+13%$190 – $915
Kansas KS16$252+11%$152 – $436
South Carolina SC37$239+6%$228 – $491
New York NY47$223−2%$89 – $516
Michigan MI48$218−4%$131 – $358
Oregon OR27$200−12%$46 – $279
Virginia VA46$200−12%$117 – $356
Wisconsin WI62$193−15%$172 – $300
Indiana IN58$191−16%$112 – $295
Minnesota MN45$179−21%$82 – $210
New Jersey NJ33$177−22%$65 – $720
Utah UT19$177−22%$177 – $569
Texas TX123$175−23%$100 – $281
Iowa IA26$167−26%$76 – $244
Washington WA41$166−27%$102 – $240
Arizona AZ13$163−28%$131 – $287
Pennsylvania PA84$158−30%$76 – $318
Massachusetts MA31$150−34%$46 – $306
Oklahoma OK24$128−44%$87 – $228
Alabama AL22$108−52%$59 – $280
West Virginia WV15$105−53%$48 – $246
Mississippi MS26$87−62%$36 – $170
Tennessee TN42$85−62%$38 – $378
Louisiana LA28$68−70%$32 – $171
Maryland MD30$47−79%$29 – $64
Arkansas AR11$46−79%$20 – $145
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not 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 $226.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,473$228$101 – $410
Children’s27$260$119 – $716
Critical access133$193$111 – $317
Ownership
For-profit199$250$105 – $699
Government179$207$87 – $349
Non-profit1,255$222$103 – $400
System affiliation
Part of a system1,458$228$105 – $404
Independent185$207$72 – $431

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$389
Median cash price$226
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

1,261 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $226 and the average of the middle 60% is $229; most fall between $102 and $404.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,261 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$117$226$357$536

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($52 vs $536).

Of the 1,386 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,261 gave a usable cash price; 60 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,643 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (42%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,845 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,643
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here91
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded108
Hospitals that filed this code1,845

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 Therapeutic radiology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Therapeutic Radiology Port Image(S).

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, “Verification images during radiation therapy (CPT 77417) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-77417-verification-images-during-radiation-therapy