SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

CT scan of the head or brain, no contrast dye in Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA

Cash prices at 5 facilities across 5 cities for code 70450, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center CAMP HILL, PA
70450 CT BRAIN/HEAD W/O CONTRAST WKC Tech
$127.09 $532.00 76%
file
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center CAMP HILL, PA
70450 CT BRAIN/HEAD W/O CONTRAST Tech
$127.09 $532.00 76%
file
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center CAMP HILL, PA
70450 CT HEAD/BRAIN W/O DYE WKC TECH
$127.09 $532.00 76%
file
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center CAMP HILL, PA
70450 CT HEAD/BRAIN W/O DYE Tech
$127.09 $532.00 76%
file
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center ENOLA, PA
70450 CT HEAD/BRAIN W/O DYE Tech
$167.42 $532.00 69%
file
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center ENOLA, PA
70450 CT BRAIN/HEAD W/O CONTRAST Tech
$167.42 $532.00 69%
file
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center HERSHEY, PA
CT* BRAIN/HEAD W/O CONTRAST
$176.25 $532.00 67%
file
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center HERSHEY, PA
CT Portable Head w/o contrast - Report
$176.25 $532.00 67%
file
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center HERSHEY, PA
CT Brain/Head w/o Contrast - Report
$176.25 $532.00 67%
file
UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals HARRISBURG, PA
HC CT BRAIN W/O CONTRAST
$796.80 $1,328.00 40%
file
UPMC Carlisle CARLISLE, PA
HC CT BRAIN W/O CONTRAST
$796.80 $1,328.00 40%
file

Outpatient: lowest $127.09, median $167.42, highest $796.80 — a 6.3× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $167.42. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

2 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 70450 ($996.32). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute HARRISBURG, PA
70450 CT BRAIN/HEAD W/O CONTRAST Tech
$91.29 file
Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute HARRISBURG, PA
70450 CT HEAD/BRAIN W/O DYE Tech
$91.29 file

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