Scans and imaging CPT 73120 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Hand X-ray (2 views) cost in Nashville, TN — inpatient

In Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN, 7 hospitals list a cash price for hand X-ray, 2 views as an inpatient: from $66.59 to $256.50, with a median of $137.75. The lowest listed price is at Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital — $71.16 less than the median here. Across Tennessee, the median is $134.48 at 81 hospitals.

Cash prices at 7 facilities across 6 cities for code 73120, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Oct 2, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Oct 1, 2025 and Sep 1, 2026.

Lowest$66.59Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital
Median$137.75half of hospitals charge less
Highest$256.50in this market
Difference3.9×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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN.

median
Lowest $66.59Highest $256.50

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital one side lowest Murfreesboro, TN · (615) 396-4100 XR HAND 2 VIEWS RIGHT+1 more line at this price source file $66.59 $221.95 $14.21–$179.33 70%
Stones River Hospital one side Woodbury, TN · (615) 563-4001 XR HAND 2 V RT+1 more line at this price source file $87.17 $290.55 $14.21–$179.33 70%
Saint Thomas West Hospital one side Harding Pk Nashville, TN · (615) 222-2111 XR HAND 2 VIEWS RIGHT+1 more line at this price source file $87.17 $290.55 $14.21–$179.33 70%
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Lebanon, TN · (615) 444-2250 HC XR HAND LTD 2V File of Oct 1, 2025 · source file $137.75 $475.00 $39.51–$380.00 71%
Williamson Medical Center Franklin, TN · (615) 435-5000 HAND,MIN 2 VIEWS+1 more line at this price source file $180.65 $320.40 $118.87–$304.38 44%
Metro Nashville General Hospital one side Nashville, TN · (615) 341-4000 XR Hand 2 Views Left+1 more line at this price File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $253.80 $423.00 — 40%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN · (615) 322-3454 HC XR HAND LTD 2V File of Oct 1, 2025 · source file $256.50 $475.00 $39.51–$380.00 46%
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 $66.59, median $137.75, highest $256.50 — a 3.9× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 21 facilities here, median $256.50 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At 6 of 6 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 two-view hand X-ray takes a front and a side picture of the hand. It is used to follow a healing fracture or to check for a foreign object or arthritis.

What the price covers

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