Abdominal CT, with/without dye cost in Albany, NY
In Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY, 3 hospitals list a cash price for abdominal CT scan without and with contrast: from $904.50 to $2,809.95, with a median of $2,809.95. The lowest listed price is at Cobleskill Regional Hospital — $1,905.45 less than the median here. Across New York, the median is $1,291.14 at 109 hospitals.
Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 cities for code 74170, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Mar 31, 2026 and Mar 31, 2026.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobleskill Regional Hospital lowest Cobleskill, NY · (518) 254-3456 HC CT Abd W/O Foll by W/Cont | $904.50 | $3,350.00 | $1,022.75–$997.68 | 73% | — source file |
| Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY · (518) 427-3402 HC CT Abdomen W/O & W/Contrast | $2,809.95 | $4,323.00 | $153.92–$4,323.00 | 35% | Mar 31, 2026 source file |
| St Peters Hospital Albany, NY · (518) 525-1550 HC CT Abdomen W/O & W/Contrast | $2,809.95 | $4,323.00 | $153.92–$4,323.00 | 35% | Mar 31, 2026 source file |
Outpatient: lowest $904.50, median $2,809.95, highest $2,809.95 — a 3.1× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $2,809.95. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 3 of 3 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is 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
This abdominal CT takes pictures before and after contrast dye. The two sets help characterize liver, kidney and adrenal masses and other findings that one scan cannot explain.
What the price covers
The hospital price usually covers the scan and any contrast dye. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 74170 ($1,951.05). 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.
| Cobleskill Regional Hospital Cobleskill, NYCAH PR CT Scan of Abdomen Combo | $116.71 | file |