Scans and imaging CPT 73700 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Leg CT scan cost in Nashville, TN — inpatient

In Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN, 7 hospitals list a cash price for leg CT scan without contrast (hip to foot, any part) as an inpatient: from $640.52 to $1,453.14, with a median of $780.39. The lowest listed price is at Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital and 1 other hospital — $139.87 less than the median here. Across Tennessee, the median is $702.83 at 80 hospitals.

Cash prices at 7 facilities across 6 cities for code 73700, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Oct 1, 2025 and Sep 1, 2026.

Lowest$640.52Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital + 1 more
Median$780.39half of hospitals charge less
Highest$1,453.14in this market
Difference2.3×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 $640.52Highest $1,453.14
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital one side lowest Murfreesboro, TN · (615) 396-4100 CT JOINT KNEE WO RIGHT+11 more lines at this price source file $640.52 $2,135.05 $140.34–$1,110.23 70%
Saint Thomas West Hospital one side lowest Harding Pk Nashville, TN · (615) 222-2111 CT EXTREMITY RIGHT LOWER W/O+1 more line at this price source file $640.52 $2,135.05 $140.34–$1,110.23 70%
Stones River Hospital one side Woodbury, TN · (615) 563-4001 CT LOWER EXTRM W/O C LT+1 more line at this price source file $701.21 $2,337.35 $94.99–$1,215.42 70%
Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Lebanon, TN · (615) 444-2250 HC CT LWR EXT W/O CONTRAST File of Oct 1, 2025 · source file $780.39 $2,691.00 $51.76–$2,152.80 71%
Williamson Medical Center one side Franklin, TN · (615) 435-5000 CT LOWER LIMB W/O CONT RT&LT source file $1,156.98 $2,052.00 $761.29–$1,949.40 44%
Metro Nashville General Hospital one side Nashville, TN · (615) 341-4000 CT Tibia/Fibula w/o Contrast Left+11 more lines at this price File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $1,240.80 $2,068.00 — 40%
Williamson Medical Center Franklin, TN · (615) 435-5000 CT LOWER LIMB W/O CONTRAST+1 more line at this price source file $1,287.90 $2,284.20 $847.44–$2,169.99 44%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN · (615) 322-3454 HC CT LWR EXT W/O CONTRAST File of Oct 1, 2025 · source file $1,453.14 $2,691.00 $98.79–$2,152.80 46%
Stones River Hospital both sides Woodbury, TN · (615) 563-4001 CT LOWER EXTRM W/O C BI source file $672.56 $2,241.85 $94.99–$1,165.76 70%
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.

Inpatient: lowest $640.52, median $780.39, highest $1,453.14 — a 2.3× difference within the same market.

Both sides : lowest $672.56, median $672.56, highest $672.56.

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 outpatient, the same code is billed by 21 facilities here, median $1,453.14 — 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 leg CT without contrast makes cross-section pictures of part of the leg, such as the knee, ankle or foot bones. It is used for complex fractures, planning surgery and when an X-ray is unclear.

What the price covers

The hospital price usually covers the scan and any contrast dye. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.