In Maryland, 15 hospitals
publish a cash price for thigh bone (femur) X-ray, 2 or more views: from $87.11
to $452.00, with a median of
$204.62.
The lowest price is at Greater Baltimore Medical Center (Towson).
The highest price is 5.2× the lowest.
Why Maryland prices look low: Maryland is the only state where a
commission (the HSCRC) sets hospital
rates for every payer, so its hospitals publish prices far below the rest of the country. A
separate physician fee may still apply.
Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price
for code 73552. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not
mixed in. Collected Sep 29, 2026.
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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
File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.
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
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
By metro area
Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.
Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.
Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.
Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.
Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More
What it is
A femur X-ray takes at least two pictures of the thigh bone, from the hip to the knee. It is used after a serious injury, for thigh pain, and to follow a fracture or an implant.
What the price covers
The hospital price usually covers taking the X-ray. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.
Thigh bone (femur) X-ray, 2 or more views in other states