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MRA of the chest with contrast

HCPCS C8909the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance angiography of the blood vessels of the chest, not including the heart muscle, performed after contrast dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $1,520 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 137 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,653. Most fall between $939 and $2,474 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
137
States
31
Filings dated
Jan 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 137 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
$616$970$1,520$2,363$3,209

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($616 vs $3,209).

How the prices are spread

$423 – $530: 2 hospitals$423$530 – $663: 8 hospitals$663 – $831: 4 hospitals$663$831 – $1,041: 18 hospitals$1,041 – $1,304: 10 hospitals$1,041$1,304 – $1,634: 27 hospitals$1,634 – $2,046: 14 hospitals$1,634$2,046 – $2,563: 26 hospitals$2,563 – $3,211: 9 hospitals$2,563$3,211 – $4,022: 7 hospitals$3,211median $1,520price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (125 of 137 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$423$5302
$530$6638
$663$8314
$831$1,04118
$1,041$1,30410
$1,304$1,63427
$1,634$2,04614
$2,046$2,56326
$2,563$3,2119
$3,211$4,0227

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$1,520
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.3×

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 $1,520.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $616 across 12 hospitalsIN$616Ohio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $1,389 across 17 hospitalsSC$1,389Oklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $2,474 across 18 hospitalsFL$2,474
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,520. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL18$2,474+63%$1,649 – $2,474
South Carolina SC17$1,389−9%$1,389 – $2,695
Indiana IN12$616−60%$542 – $832
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,520.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care117$1,520$953 – $2,474
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access18fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit31$2,143$888 – $3,209
Government12fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit93$1,416$939 – $2,474
System affiliation
Part of a system124$1,520$908 – $2,474
Independent13fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,311
Median cash price$1,520
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.

How complete is this

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

What the 157 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted137
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code157

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 23, 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 Chest W 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 chest with contrast (CPT C8909) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8909-mra-of-the-chest-with-contrast