MRI lumbar spine without contrast dye

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

MRI Lumbar Myelogram

Payers reporting CPT 72148

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 · +39 other terms	806	$416.96	$542.21	$1.00 – $7,103
2	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +39 other terms	642	$368.77	$865.67	$1.00 – $7,057
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	541	$554.27	$777.89	$1.00 – $14,824
4	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	455	$261.63	$555.93	$1.10 – $6,553
5	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	379	$561.00	$985.83	$38.80 – $10,491
6	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	263	$266.80	$307.14	$1.05 – $2,364
7	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	219	$596.84	$578.85	$6.21 – $10,686
8	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +28 other terms	201	$258.43	$307.55	$55.63 – $1,236
9	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	129	$2,884	$2,482	$90.68 – $7,562
10	Ambetter fee schedule · outpatient · +26 other terms	120	$378.76	$383.06	$52.02 – $2,538
11	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +29 other terms	112	$474.48	$713.20	$69.75 – $6,510
12	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	103	$239.32	$289.14	$206.40 – $4,881
13	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	89	$215.07	$244.70	$112.96 – $876.25
14	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	89	$302.45	$396.65	$1.08 – $1,597
15	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	89	$238.99	$370.11	$48.95 – $4,590
16	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	78	$315.18	$1,019	$56.75 – $4,490
17	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	69	$411.27	$786.93	$52.50 – $4,152
18	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	69	$348.78	$329.26	$200.62 – $672.09
19	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +24 other terms	64	$994.52	$1,359	$83.70 – $6,553
20	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +27 other terms	58	$222.54	$1,262	$74.97 – $8,330
21	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	57	$307.38	$353.06	$165.81 – $959.26
22	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	57	$227.33	$262.84	$105.76 – $825.86
23	Medicare other · both · +22 other terms	52	$252.44	$329.77	$221.34 – $2,562
24	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	42	$241.14	$250.82	$197.14 – $400.19
25	Clover facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +15 other terms	36	$251.29	$244.63	$207.70 – $284.66

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