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MRI angiogram of the arm with and without contrast

HCPCS C8936the billing code this page is about

Magnetic resonance imaging of the blood vessels of one upper limb, with pictures taken both before and after contrast dye is given.

Hospitals typically charge $1,234 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 106 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,430. Most fall between $619 and $2,905 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
106
States
25
Filings dated
Nov 2025 – Jul 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 106 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
$477$799$1,234$2,323$4,700

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($477 vs $4,700).

How the prices are spread

$461 – $634: 17 hospitals$461$634 – $872: 9 hospitals$872 – $1,200: 15 hospitals$872$1,200 – $1,650: 20 hospitals$1,650 – $2,271: 12 hospitals$1,650$2,271 – $3,124: 10 hospitals$3,124 – $4,297: 6 hospitals$3,124$4,297 – $5,912: 4 hospitals$5,912 – $8,133: 0 hospitals$5,912$8,133 – $11,188: 6 hospitals$8,133median $1,234price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (99 of 106 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$461$63417
$634$8729
$872$1,20015
$1,200$1,65020
$1,650$2,27112
$2,271$3,12410
$3,124$4,2976
$4,297$5,9124
$5,912$8,1330
$8,133$11,1886

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$356
Median cash price$1,234
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.5×

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 $1,234.

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: 1 hospital 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMINew York: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $616 across 12 hospitalsIN$616Ohio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $11,188 across 10 hospitalsPA$11,188New Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 1 hospital 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: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $1,234 across 19 hospitalsFL$1,234
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,234. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA10$11,188+807%$1,206 – $11,188
Florida FL19$1,2340%$1,234 – $1,682
Indiana IN12$616−50%$542 – $832
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $1,234.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care88$1,234$588 – $2,510
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit20$1,234$616 – $2,277
Government11fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit74$1,234$588 – $3,400
System affiliation
Part of a system95$1,234$616 – $2,905
Independent11fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,836
Median cash price$1,234
Cash as a share of list, median hospital45%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 55%. 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

106 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 118 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted106
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here7
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code118

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 14, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Mra w/o&w/dye upper extr.

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, “MRI angiogram of the arm with and without contrast (CPT C8936) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8936-mri-angiogram-of-the-arm-with-and-without-contrast