Chest X-Ray Cost in Mississippi
X-ray exam chest 2 views
$122Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
- ✓A word-for-word script for asking for a good-faith estimate
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- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
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Mississippi Medicare physician rate (2026)
-11.2% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Choosing a surgery centre over a hospital saves about $66 on the Medicare allowed amount for chest x-ray. Ask whether your procedure can be done at an ambulatory surgery centre.
Medicare may pay the facility separately for this code or package it into another service on the same day, so treat the facility share as an upper bound. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Mississippi
Run a ZIP lookup for your area, whether metro Jackson, the Gulf Coast from Biloxi to Pascagoula, Hattiesburg, Tupelo, or the rural Delta.
What chest x-ray costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Mississippi moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Mississippi
Where Mississippi ranks for this CPT
Chest X-Ray and how Mississippi is priced
Mississippi operates as one statewide payment locality, and its geographic indices are among the very lowest in the fee schedule, so Medicare-approved amounts here are close to the national floor. Jackson, the Gulf Coast, and the Delta all share identical adjustments. In a state where practice costs and wages run well below national averages, the low locality factors track the underlying economics. The statewide figures on this site therefore apply almost unchanged wherever in Mississippi you are treated.
Jackson is home to the state's academic medical center and functions as the referral point of last resort for much of Mississippi, while the Gulf Coast and cities like Tupelo, Hattiesburg, and Meridian anchor regional care. The Delta faces some of the most serious rural access challenges in the nation, with hospital closures and long distances compounding high rates of chronic illness. Border residents often use Memphis, Mobile, or New Orleans providers.
This procedure: A two-view chest X-ray takes front and side pictures of your lungs, heart, and ribs in about five minutes of actual room time. It is among the most commonly ordered imaging tests, used for coughs that will not quit, suspected pneumonia, shortness of breath, or pre-operative checks. You stand against a plate, take a deep breath and hold it for each view, and there is no preparation, no needles, and only a minimal radiation dose.
What Is Chest X-Ray?
A two-view chest X-ray takes front and side pictures of your lungs, heart, and ribs in about five minutes of actual room time. It is among the most commonly ordered imaging tests, used for coughs that will not quit, suspected pneumonia, shortness of breath, or pre-operative checks. You stand against a plate, take a deep breath and hold it for each view, and there is no preparation, no needles, and only a minimal radiation dose.
What Affects the Cost
- –Emergency department chest X-rays cost several times more than the same two views at an urgent care or imaging center.
- –The radiologist's interpretation is a separate professional fee from the technical charge for taking the images.
- –Hospital-owned clinics can attach facility fees that independent offices do not.
- –If findings prompt a follow-up chest CT, that next test costs an order of magnitude more, so where the X-ray leads matters.
- –Some urgent care visit charges bundle the X-ray while others itemize it, changing the apparent price.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Can I get this done at an imaging center or urgent care rather than the hospital?
- 2.Is the radiologist's reading included in the quoted price?
- 3.Will this be billed separately from my visit charge today?
- 4.What is your cash price if I have a high deductible?
- 5.If something shows up, what follow-up imaging would you order and what does that cost?
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Chest X-Ray in Mississippi: questions
Mississippi is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 71046 is $29.36 in an office and $29.36 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Mississippi uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $6 for the office physician line or $6 for the hospital physician line in Mississippi. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $29.36 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $122 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $56 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Mississippi ranks #2 of 51 states on the physician line (11% below the national office rate of $33.07).