Scans and imagingCPT 70491Inpatient — admitted to hospital
Neck CT with contrast cost in Hagerstown, MD — inpatient
In Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV, 1 hospital
lists a cash price for neck soft tissue CT scan with contrast as an inpatient:
from $138.64 to
$138.64, with a median of
$138.64.
Across Maryland, the median is $236.69 at
13 hospitals.
Cash prices at 1
facility
for code 70491,
as an inpatient (admitted to hospital)
.
Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files
themselves were last updated between — and
—.
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.
At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More
Inpatient:
lowest $138.64, median $138.64,
highest $138.64.
As an outpatient, the same code is billed by
1 facility here,
median $1,081.50 — that is the price to compare if you are not
being admitted.
Cash or insurance?
At the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated. 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 neck CT with contrast makes cross-section pictures of the throat, glands, lymph nodes and airway after dye is injected into a vein. It is used for a neck lump, a deep throat infection or abscess, and to stage head and neck cancer.
What the price covers
The hospital price usually covers the scan and any contrast dye. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.