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Showing the cash price each hospital publishes for self-payers.
We priced
Lower back X-ray
A standard X-ray series of the lower spine, at least four views.
Sorted cheapest first. A published figure that behaves like a placeholder rather than a real price — one cent, or a figure orders of magnitude below what other hospitals publish for the same billing code — never leads this order. It stays listed, after every other figure, ordered by its own amount among the others like it.
Comparisons against other hospitals were computed on 2 November 2026. Each price carries its own fetch date; a comparison is a snapshot of what other hospitals had published when it ran, not a standing fact.
Why a range? One insurer publishes different rates for different plans at the same hospital — a PPO and an HMO under the same name can differ several times over. We show what the hospital published rather than collapsing it into a single number that might not be yours.
4 hospitals withheld
These publish prices for this service, but what they published is too incomplete for us to line up fairly against the rest. We list them so you know they exist, and each one opens to its full prices and the exact parts of its disclosure that are missing — this is about their paperwork, not their care. We hold no clinical or outcome data about any hospital.