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CT Scan of the Chest: cost by metro

Imaging & scans · outpatient (same-day) · billed as CPT 71250 · priced across 28 metros

What does a CT Scan of the Chest cost? Across 28 major U.S. metros, the typical insurer-negotiated price for a Chest CT (CPT 71250) ranges from about $89 to $1,819 by metro, based on hospitals' own price-transparency files. Self-pay cash prices, where hospitals publish them, are often lower. Pick your metro for the local range and a hospital-by-hospital breakdown. These are price references from public data — not a quote, a bill, or medical or financial advice.

Chest CT price by metro

The typical insurer-negotiated price for a Chest CT, by metro — lowest first. Open a metro for the full three-level breakdown and every hospital.

Metro Typical negotiated Range Cash
Indianapolis, IN $89 $67–$116 $494
Detroit, MI $101 $54–$555 $989
Tampa, FL $146 $97–$177 —
Memphis, TN $157 $157 $362
Philadelphia, PA $159 $80–$608 —
Riverside, CA $164 $127–$856 $1,820
Cleveland, OH $168 $99–$501 $477
Sacramento, CA $190 $183–$190 $2,845
San Francisco, CA $190 $190–$1,132 $2,845
Phoenix, AZ $207 $113–$1,237 $411
St. Louis, MO $226 $151–$313 $1,166
Seattle, WA $227 $154–$2,433 $607
Birmingham, AL $236 $49–$1,584 $647
Jacksonville, FL $236 $236 $647
New York, NY $238 $132–$364 $338
Hartford, CT $308 $127–$612 —
Nashville, TN $319 $260–$563 —
Houston, TX $360 $245–$1,046 —
Kansas City, MO $362 $245–$5,833 —
Denver, CO $565 $431–$948 $1,717
Milwaukee, WI $582 $103–$1,999 $893
Austin, TX $636 $119–$3,603 $442
Pittsburgh, PA $684 $83–$1,347 $1,873
Dallas, TX $750 $138–$1,426 $1,556
Virginia Beach, VA $1,176 $1,166–$2,754 —
Chicago, IL $1,392 $1,123–$1,848 $855
San Jose, CA $1,674 $190–$2,290 —
San Antonio, TX $1,819 $97–$2,119 —

Source: hospitals' own machine-readable Standard Charges files, published under the U.S. Hospital Price Transparency rule (45 CFR §180.50). Most recent hospital file in this dataset: July 2026. Prices are references, not quotes or bills, and never medical or financial advice — where a hospital reports no price, nothing is shown rather than a guess.

About Chest CT pricing

A Chest CT is billed as CPT 71250 and is usually a outpatient (same-day) service. Prices vary widely by metro and by hospital, which is why every figure here is tied to a specific hospital's own published file. 19 of these 28 metros have at least one hospital publishing a self-pay cash price.

The chargemaster (list) price is the hospital's undiscounted sticker rate. Almost no one actually pays it — insurers negotiate it down and self-pay patients are usually offered the cash price — but it shows how large the discount off list can be.

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