Scans and imaging CPT 70490 Outpatient

Neck CT scan cost in Providence, RI

In Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, 10 hospitals list a cash price for neck soft tissue CT scan without contrast: from $176.75 to $1,218.00, with a median of $470.08. The lowest listed price is at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and 1 other hospital — $293.33 less than the median here. Across Rhode Island, the median is $1,041.00 at 6 hospitals.

Cash prices at 10 facilities across 7 cities for code 70490, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$176.75Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island + 1 more
Median$470.08half pay less
Highest$1,218.00in this market
Difference6.9×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA.

median
Lowest $176.75Highest $1,218.00

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island lowest Providence, RI · (401) 274-1100 HC CT Scan,Soft Tissue Neck,W/O Contrast - CT Soft Tissue Neck WO Cont $176.75 $505.00 $114.63–$464.60 65% —
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Kent County Memorial Hospital lowest Warwick, RI · (401) 737-7010 HC CT Scan,Soft Tissue Neck,W/O Contrast - CT Soft Tissue Neck WO Cont $176.75 $505.00 $94.00–$471.17 65% —
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Southcoast Hospitals Group - St. Luke's Hospital St. New Bedford, MA HC CT Scan-Soft Tissue Neck-W/O Contrast $377.50 $755.00 $95.93–$587.00 50% —
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Southcoast Hospitals Group Fall River, MA · (508) 679-3131 HC CT Scan-Soft Tissue Neck-W/O Contrast $377.50 $755.00 $95.93–$587.00 50% —
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Brown University Health Morton Hospital Taunton, MA · (508) 828-7000 HC CT SOFT TISSUE NECK W/O CONTRAST $424.99 $424.99 — — —
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Saint Anne's Hospital Fall River, MA · (508) 674-5600 HC CT SOFT TISSUE NECK W/O CONTRAST $515.17 $515.17 — — —
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Newport Hospital Newport, RI · (401) 846-6400 HC CT SOFT TISSUE NECK W/O CONTRAST $1,041.00 $1,041.00 — — —
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The Miriam Hospital Providence, RI · (401) 793-2500 HC CT SOFT TISSUE NECK W/O CONTRAST $1,041.00 $1,041.00 — — —
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Rhode Island Hospital Providence, RI · (401) 444-4000 HC CT SOFT TISSUE NECK W/O CONTRAST $1,041.00 $1,041.00 — — —
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South County Health Wakefield, RI · (401) 782-8000 Computed tomography, soft tissue neck; without contrast material $1,218.00 $2,030.00 $311.01 40% —
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Outpatient: lowest $176.75, median $470.08, highest $1,218.00 — a 6.9× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $1,041.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 4 of 5 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

A soft tissue neck CT makes cross-section pictures of the throat, glands, lymph nodes and airway without contrast dye. It is less common than the contrast scan, and is used when dye cannot be given.

What the price covers

The hospital price usually covers the scan and any contrast dye. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 70490 ($1,225.64). 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.

Landmark Medical Center Woonsocket, RIHc Ct Scan,Soft Tissue Neck,W/O Contrast $116.00 file