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MRI of the Knee: cost by metro

Imaging & scans · outpatient (same-day) · billed as CPT 73721 · priced across 27 metros

What does a MRI of the Knee cost? Across 27 major U.S. metros, the typical insurer-negotiated price for a Knee MRI (CPT 73721) ranges from about $207 to $2,475 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.

Knee MRI price by metro

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

Metro Typical negotiated Range Cash
Indianapolis, IN $207 $148–$278 $874
Tampa, FL $337 $273–$411 —
Sacramento, CA $339 $282–$339 $3,438
San Francisco, CA $339 $339–$1,049 $3,438
Memphis, TN $356 $356 $1,018
St. Louis, MO $358 $341–$370 $2,038
Phoenix, AZ $476 $350–$4,431 $450
New York, NY $495 $302–$570 $575
Seattle, WA $517 $245–$5,736 $720
Birmingham, AL $525 $525–$2,752 $590
Jacksonville, FL $525 $525 $590
Nashville, TN $542 $542–$796 —
Riverside, CA $623 $270–$6,888 $2,389
Philadelphia, PA $638 $444–$1,421 $1,507
Detroit, MI $695 $69–$1,591 $1,465
Milwaukee, WI $764 $235–$3,192 $2,420
Kansas City, MO $776 $558–$9,091 —
Hartford, CT $886 $289–$1,229 —
Denver, CO $945 $614–$5,182 $2,186
Cleveland, OH $953 $226–$1,059 $1,084
Virginia Beach, VA $1,424 $1,412–$5,370 —
Houston, TX $1,553 $578–$2,311 —
Austin, TX $1,709 $309–$4,734 $728
Dallas, TX $1,875 $314–$3,309 $2,046
Pittsburgh, PA $1,978 $249–$2,848 $3,963
San Jose, CA $2,058 $339–$4,443 —
Chicago, IL $2,475 $1,958–$2,823 $1,520

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 Knee MRI pricing

A Knee MRI is billed as CPT 73721 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. 20 of these 27 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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