Scans and imaging CPT 71046 Outpatient

Chest X-ray cost in Shreveport, LA

In Shreveport-Bossier City, LA, 1 hospital lists a cash price for chest X-ray, 2 views: from $408.00 to $408.00, with a median of $408.00. Across Louisiana, the median is $136.88 at 28 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 71046, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 28, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$408.00Willis Knighton Medical Center
Median$408.00half pay less
Highest$408.00in this market
Difference1.0×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 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA.

median
Lowest $408.00Highest $456.00
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Willis Knighton Medical Center lowest Shreveport, LA · (318) 212-4000 Chest 2 View $408.00 $510.00 — 20% Apr 1, 2026
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Willis Knighton Medical Center both sides Shreveport, LA · (318) 212-4000 Chest Decubitus Bilateral $456.00 $570.00 — 20% Apr 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $408.00, median $408.00, highest $408.00.

Both sides : lowest $456.00, median $456.00, highest $456.00.

The two groups are not comparable and are not averaged together: a price for both sides of the body covers twice the work. Merging them is how a single published "median" ends up far above what one side actually costs.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $408.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

What it is

A chest X-ray with two views, usually one from the front and one from the side, shows the lungs, heart size and the bones of the chest. It is ordered for cough, shortness of breath, suspected pneumonia, chest pain and some pre-employment or pre-surgery checks.

What the price covers

The hospital price usually covers taking the X-ray. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.