Cervical spine X-ray, 2 to 3 views

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

72040 X-RAY OF UPPER SPINE

Payers reporting CPT 72040

72 payers file a negotiated rate for this code. Each is shown once, under the terms the most hospitals file it under; rates under different terms (billing class, payment method, setting) are never blended, so open a payer to see them all. Figures are hospital-level averages; the median is across hospitals.

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1	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +41 other terms	798	$129.44	$134.18	$1.00 – $2,587
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	727	$98.00	$160.52	$1.00 – $5,234
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +37 other terms	547	$117.53	$139.46	$1.00 – $2,506
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	545	$130.91	$176.82	$8.42 – $1,424
5	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	437	$89.16	$107.25	$1.10 – $1,746
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	267	$82.57	$74.16	$1.05 – $308.20
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	204	$107.48	$78.17	$2.07 – $790.50
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	195	$93.85	$91.59	$8.42 – $422.00
9	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	135	$420.00	$371.34	$13.79 – $1,746
10	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	110	$123.88	$165.70	$10.61 – $1,017
11	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	107	$146.71	$116.75	$6.20 – $336.30
12	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	106	$87.29	$114.87	$6.02 – $4,860
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	92	$42.94	$58.18	$23.32 – $352.32
14	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	90	$86.55	$113.15	$5.55 – $4,570
15	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	87	$227.20	$250.60	$8.58 – $720.00
16	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	79	$88.34	$84.97	$1.08 – $278.88
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	73	$107.89	$282.54	$7.98 – $13,117
18	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	72	$127.21	$117.48	$34.70 – $351.00
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	65	$148.75	$237.93	$12.73 – $1,335
20	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	63	$42.40	$62.24	$16.50 – $143.31
21	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	62	$80.84	$184.63	$11.41 – $1,229
22	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	54	$41.37	$62.01	$16.50 – $354.00
23	Medicare other · both · +23 other terms	52	$92.07	$111.18	$33.40 – $564.00
24	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	47	$85.08	$69.83	$33.79 – $111.27
25	Clover facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +16 other terms	36	$89.10	$87.95	$70.95 – $103.69

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