Scans and imaging CPT 72220 Outpatient

Tailbone X-ray cost in Kalispell, MT

In Kalispell, MT, 2 hospitals list a cash price for X-ray of the tailbone (sacrum and coccyx), 2 or more views: from $202.31 to $314.44, with a median of $258.38. The lowest listed price is at Logan Health Medical Center — $56.07 less than the median here. Across Montana, the median is $233.48 at 20 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 72220, 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$202.31Logan Health Medical Center
Median$258.38half pay less
Highest$314.44in this market
Difference1.6×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 Kalispell, MT.

median
Lowest $202.31Highest $314.44

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Logan Health Medical Center lowest Kalispell, MT · (406) 752-5111 SACRUM/COCCYX MIN 2 VIEWS $202.31 $311.25 — 35% Apr 1, 2026
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Logan Health - Whitefish Whitefish, MT · (406) 863-3550 SACRUM/COCCYX MIN 2 VIEWS $314.44 $483.75 — 35% Apr 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $202.31, median $258.38, highest $314.44 — a 1.6× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $258.38. 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 X-ray shows the sacrum and tailbone. It is used after a fall onto the tailbone or for lasting tailbone pain.

What the price covers

The price usually covers taking the images. The radiologist's reading may be billed separately.

2 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 72220 ($267.14). 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.

Logan Health - Whitefish Whitefish, MTX-RAY EXAM SACRUM TAILBONE $13.00 file
Logan Health Medical Center Kalispell, MTX-RAY EXAM SACRUM TAILBONE $13.00 file