Cash-pay prices / Imaging
Imaging: what Montana hospitals charge
What Montana hospitals charge a self-paying patient for a scan.
Meanwhile, what a hospital charges
Not CoreMed prices and not clinic prices. These are what Montana hospitals ask a self-paying patient, taken from their own federally required price files. They are here as the benchmark the numbers above are worth comparing against.
| Procedure | Cheapest hospital | Most expensive | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| MRI, brain, without contrast 10 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $672 | $2,897 | 4.3× |
| MRI, lower back, without contrast 10 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $658 | $2,538 | 3.9× |
| CT, head, without contrast 10 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $354 | $2,134 | 6.0× |
| CT, abdomen and pelvis, with contrast 10 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $1,034 | $4,226 | 4.1× |
| Ultrasound, abdomen, complete 10 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $266 | $884 | 3.3× |
| Chest X-ray, two views 10 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $98 | $309 | 3.2× |
| Mammogram, screening, both sides 8 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $77 | $425 | 5.5× |
Self-pay prices from each hospital's machine-readable file, extracted September 2026. Hospitals publishing no separate self-pay rate are excluded, so every figure is like for like. See the full comparison.
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Labs, X-rays and prescriptions are part of a CoreMed membership rather than a separate bill. If you're regularly paying cash for the things on this page, the membership is often the cheaper path.
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