Scans and imaging CPT 74170 Outpatient

Abdominal CT, with/without dye cost in Mayagüez, PR

In Mayagüez, PR, 2 hospitals list a cash price for abdominal CT scan without and with contrast: from $450.00 to $475.00, with a median of $462.50. The lowest listed price is at Bella Vista Hospital — $12.50 less than the median here. Across Puerto Rico, the median is $354.36 at 5 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 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 Dec 26, 2024 and Dec 26, 2024.

Lowest$450.00Bella Vista Hospital
Median$462.50half of hospitals charge less
Highest$475.00in this market
Difference1.1×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 Mayagüez, PR.

median
Lowest $450.00Highest $475.00

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Bella Vista Hospital lowest Mayaguez, PR · (787) 652-6045 CT ABDOMEN W&W/O CONTR+1 more line at this price source file $450.00 $450.00 $128.59–$450.00 —
Hospital de la Concepcion San German, PR · (787) 892-1860 Ct Abdomen W/O & With Contrast File of Dec 26, 2024 · source file $475.00 $475.00 $128.59–$264.60 —
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.
No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

Outpatient: lowest $450.00, median $462.50, highest $475.00 — a 1.1× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $462.50. 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 0 of 2 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

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 ($1,950.61). 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.

HospitalCash priceFile
Mayaguez Medical Center Mayaguez, PRAbdomen Wo/W Con Ct $175.00 file
File Link to the hospital's own price file.