How much does a CT scan of the face and sinuses cost in the US?

Across 1,215 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $296, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $131 and $906. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $1,033 across the 964 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.

Why do Sinus CT Scan prices vary so much?

Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 14.2 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $94 in Alabama to $1,921 in South Dakota.

Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?

Sometimes. At 222 of the 964 hospitals that list a cash price (23%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.

What is the Medicare rate shown here?

$107 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 2.8 times it.

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Sinus CT Scan Cost in the US (2026): What 1,215 Hospitals NegotiatedNPI VERIFIED

Across 1,215 US hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate for a CT scan of the face and sinuses is $296 — 2.8× the Medicare outpatient rate of $107. The middle half of hospitals negotiated between $131 and $906; the priciest tenth negotiated more than $1,472, 14.2× the cheapest tenth (under $104). Hospitals that list a self-pay price ask a median of $1,033 (964 hospitals).

Code CPT 70486 · Source: hospital machine-readable files (45 CFR §180), file dates 2022-11-12 to 2026-09-28 (median 2026-04-01) · Medicare baseline: CMS OPPS Addendum B, July 2026 · Data extracted 2026-10-06 · Page updated 2026-10-07

National median

$296

all plan types · 1,215 hospitals

Middle half

$131–$906

25th–75th percentile of hospitals

Median cash price

$1,033

self-pay · 964 hospitals list one

Medicare baseline

$107

CMS OPPS national · July 2026

1,215 hospitals, one bar per price band

median $296Medicare $107

$0$1,000$2,000

Each bar counts hospitals whose median rate falls in that price band; the last, dashed bar holds the 52 at $2,000 or more. The cheapest tenth negotiated under $104, the priciest tenth over $1,472 — 14.2× apart for the same procedure.

These are contract reference rates, not your bill. A median across hospitals is not a quote for your plan or network. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network status.

This is the hospital's facility fee. The radiologist who reads the images bills separately.

Coverage: 1,215 of the 5,419 hospitals in the CMS roster have an identity-verified price file with this procedure in our data. It is not a random sample, and a hospital missing here has not been judged non-compliant — we may simply not have its file yet. 92 of these 1,215 hospital files were more than 12 months old at extraction — hospitals must update yearly; we keep the figures and say so rather than hide them.

By insurance type

Insurance type	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare
Commercial (plan type not stated)	736	$874	$281 – $1,539	8.2×
PPO	778	$742	$341 – $1,464	6.9×
HMO	522	$488	$274 – $1,196	4.6×
EPO	124	$928	$227 – $1,753	8.7×
POS	58	$625	$269 – $1,148	5.9×
ACA Marketplace	478	$240	$161 – $714	2.3×
Medicare Advantage	693	$118	$104 – $629	1.1×
Medicare (as listed)	683	$111	$104 – $180	1.0×
Medicaid	769	$228	$125 – $637	2.1×
Federal employees (FEP)	22	$875	$875 – $1,498	8.2×
Workers' comp	136	$631	$221 – $1,495	5.9×

Plan types are grouped from each hospital's plan names. Each figure is a median of hospital-level medians; types with fewer than 20 hospitals are left out.

By state

State	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare	Median cash
Alabama	17	$94	$94 – $99	0.9×	$730
Arizona	12	$121	$118 – $428	1.1×	$430
Arkansas	15	$404	$125 – $479	3.8×	$1,018
California	43	$206	$134 – $644	1.9×	$1,049
Colorado	8	$534	$182 – $1,387	5.0×	$663
Florida	49	$191	$117 – $231	1.8×	$1,269
Georgia	32	$202	$182 – $723	1.9×	$731
Hawaii	8	$202	$105 – $370	1.9×	$870
Idaho	12	$782	$548 – $918	7.3×	$1,048
Illinois	46	$665	$233 – $1,204	6.2×	$1,496
Indiana	27	$374	$228 – $458	3.5×	$891
Iowa	47	$871	$476 – $1,285	8.2×	$1,260
Kansas	45	$758	$547 – $1,068	7.1×	$909
Kentucky	42	$468	$303 – $664	4.4×	$1,039
Louisiana	28	$281	$153 – $532	2.6×	$908
Maine	8	$686	$297 – $989	6.4×	$823
Maryland	9	$143	$94 – $156	1.3×	$140
Massachusetts	9	$245	$174 – $662	2.3×	$1,222
Michigan	32	$122	$104 – $197	1.1×	$889
Minnesota	30	$1,132	$523 – $1,416	10.6×	$1,392
Mississippi	23	$97	$91 – $147	0.9×	$704
Missouri	29	$170	$109 – $560	1.6×	$1,213
Montana	19	$868	$386 – $1,390	8.1×	$1,302
Nebraska	30	$1,338	$216 – $2,000	12.5×	$1,830
Nevada	8	$220	$220 – $435	2.1×	$2,639
New Hampshire	6	$505	$212 – $791	4.7×	$3,708
New Jersey	22	$224	$165 – $250	2.1×	$505
New Mexico	17	$696	$172 – $1,538	6.5×	$1,023
New York	38	$167	$135 – $268	1.6×	$676
North Carolina	22	$322	$107 – $560	3.0×	$1,024
North Dakota	14	$1,087	$902 – $1,381	10.2×	$1,066
Ohio	58	$207	$107 – $311	1.9×	$888
Oklahoma	37	$231	$105 – $687	2.2×	$1,116
Oregon	22	$214	$154 – $411	2.0×	$920
Pennsylvania	59	$160	$126 – $533	1.5×	$1,083
Puerto Rico	5	$135	$98 – $143	1.3×	$261
Rhode Island	5	$204	$192 – $226	1.9×	$752
South Carolina	27	$109	$104 – $261	1.0×	$1,379
South Dakota	11	$1,921	$1,616 – $2,042	18.0×	$2,084
Tennessee	23	$104	$102 – $150	1.0×	$532
Texas	104	$446	$144 – $977	4.2×	$1,030
Utah	21	$1,454	$1,392 – $1,578	13.6×	$1,547
Vermont	9	$1,551	$1,001 – $2,085	14.5×	$1,989
Virginia	19	$297	$205 – $752	2.8×	$776
Washington	16	$716	$467 – $1,095	6.7×	$1,245
West Virginia	8	$940	$107 – $1,544	8.8×	$1,179
Wisconsin	27	$619	$285 – $898	5.8×	$1,020
Wyoming	9	$1,459	$1,304 – $2,333	13.7×	$1,582

middle half of hospitalsstate medianMedicare rate · a dotted end means the range runs past $2,000

States with at least 5 hospitals in our data (48 states). 3 smaller states are counted in the national figures but not listed — a median of two or three hospitals says more about those hospitals than about the state.

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Hospital-level and insurer-level rates for this procedure are in the full dataset. A free three-procedure sample (brain MRI, head CT, diagnostic colonoscopy) is open under CC BY 4.0: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23199844 · Kaggle.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a CT scan of the face and sinuses cost in the US?: Across 1,215 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $296, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $131 and $906. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $1,033 across the 964 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.
Why do Sinus CT Scan prices vary so much?: Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 14.2 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $94 in Alabama to $1,921 in South Dakota.
Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?: Sometimes. At 222 of the 964 hospitals that list a cash price (23%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.
What is the Medicare rate shown here?: $107 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 2.8 times it.

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