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MRA of the abdomen without and then with contrast

HCPCS C8902the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance angiography of the abdominal blood vessels performed first without contrast dye and then repeated after contrast is given, in one session.

Hospitals typically charge $2,092 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 210 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,073. Most fall between $992 and $3,039 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
210
States
38
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 210 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
$676$1,266$2,092$2,928$3,744

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($676 vs $3,744).

How the prices are spread

$509 – $643: 9 hospitals$509$643 – $812: 8 hospitals$812 – $1,026: 15 hospitals$812$1,026 – $1,295: 16 hospitals$1,295 – $1,636: 19 hospitals$1,295$1,636 – $2,066: 27 hospitals$2,066 – $2,609: 32 hospitals$2,066$2,609 – $3,296: 37 hospitals$3,296 – $4,162: 18 hospitals$3,296$4,162 – $5,256: 9 hospitals$4,162median $2,092price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (190 of 210 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$509$6439
$643$8128
$812$1,02615
$1,026$1,29516
$1,295$1,63619
$1,636$2,06627
$2,066$2,60932
$2,609$3,29637
$3,296$4,16218
$4,162$5,2569

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$2,092
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.9×

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 $2,092.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $816 across 17 hospitalsIN$816Ohio: median $2,781 across 16 hospitalsOH$2,781Pennsylvania: median $11,120 across 12 hospitalsPA$11,120New Jersey: median $1,141 across 10 hospitalsNJ$1,141Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $1,468 across 10 hospitalsTN$1,468North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $2,928 across 19 hospitalsFL$2,928
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,092. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA12$11,120+432%$2,224 – $11,188
Florida FL19$2,928+40%$1,988 – $2,928
Ohio OH16$2,781+33%$2,781 – $3,643
Tennessee TN10$1,468−30%$1,294 – $2,406
New Jersey NJ10$1,141−45%$461 – $1,141
Indiana IN17$816−61%$616 – $1,427
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,092.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care182$2,062$1,058 – $2,928
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$2,262$832 – $3,600
Ownership
For-profit46$1,996$1,058 – $2,969
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit145$2,224$980 – $3,243
System affiliation
Part of a system186$2,157$1,030 – $3,068
Independent24$1,640$941 – $2,795

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,925
Median cash price$2,092
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

160 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,256 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,240; most fall between $1,286 and $3,068.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 160 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
$854$1,427$2,256$2,928$3,960

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($854 vs $3,960).

Of the 172 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 160 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

210 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 230 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted210
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code230

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Mra Abd W/WO Cont.

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, “MRA of the abdomen without and then with contrast (CPT C8902) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8902-mra-of-the-abdomen-without-and-then-with-contrast