SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

MRI of knee or other lower-limb joint, with contrast dye in Jamestown-Dunkirk, NY

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 73723, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 22, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 14, 2026 and Apr 14, 2026.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
UPMC Chautauqua JAMESTOWN, NY
MR LOW EXTREM ANY JNT W/WO
$979.20 $1,632.00 40%
file
WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC WESTFIELD, NY
HC MRI LE JNT W/WO CNTRST
$3,134.04 $4,018.00 22% Apr 14, 2026
file
WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC WESTFIELD, NY
HC MRI LE JNT W/WO CNTRST
$3,134.04 $4,018.00 22% Apr 14, 2026
file

Outpatient: lowest $979.20, median $3,134.04, highest $3,134.04 — a 3.2× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $2,056.62. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 73723 ($2,483.25). 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.

WESTFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC WESTFIELD, NY
CHG MRI ANY JT LOWER EXTREM W/O & W/CONTRAST MATRL
$63.14 file

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