Scans and imaging CPT 72158 Outpatient

Lower back MRI with contrast cost in Yuba City, CA

In Yuba City, CA, 1 hospital lists a cash price for MRI of the lower back, without and then with contrast dye: from $8,441.00 to $8,441.00, with a median of $8,441.00. Across California, the median is $4,544.93 at 198 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 72158, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$8,441.00Sutter Surgical Hospital - North Valley

Median$8,441.00half of hospitals charge less

Highest$8,441.00in this market

Difference1.0×highest vs lowest

Hospitals, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	Insurers pay	Off list
Sutter Surgical Hospital - North Valley Yuba City, CA · (530) 749-5700 HCHG MRI SPINE LUMB W AND WO CONTR File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file	$8,441.00	$8,441.00	—	—

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.

No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

Outpatient: lowest $8,441.00, median $8,441.00, highest $8,441.00.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $8,441.00. 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

This MRI of the lumbar spine takes one set of pictures without contrast dye and a second set after the dye is injected into a vein. The dye helps tell scar tissue from a new disc problem after back surgery and can show infection, inflammation or tumors.

What the price covers

The hospital price usually covers both sets of images; the contrast agent may appear as a separate line on some bills. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.