CT scan of the head (no dye)

A CT scan of the head or brain without contrast dye - common after a fall, injury, or for headaches.
Code 70450 · Imaging & scans · statewide summary · negotiated in-network prices
Payers shown: Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Prices shown: every in-person setting
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? These are doctors' (professional) fees only. If this is done in a hospital or surgery center, the facility bills its own fee on top — for the room, nurses and equipment — often larger than the doctor's. That fee is not included here. Where a state has both, the table and each state’s popup show the doctor’s fee and the facility fee side by side; their sum is a rough total for the visit, before anything else done during it.
Who is counted: Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey lists clinicians individually: 89% of the 98,503 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey’s files name 86,885 providers for this procedure; 6,388 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Diagnostic Radiology, Clinic/Center and Vascular & Interventional Radiology — and the practices, clinics and hospitals. Insurers attach their whole fee schedule to every contracted provider, so the rest are clinicians listed at a price for something they never do; counting them would inflate the provider count and pull the typical price towards the fee schedule’s floor.
Not on this map: Care outside its home state: Blue Cross Blue Shield plans share one national network, BlueCard, for members treated in other states. Those prices are published centrally, not by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, so they are not included here.
StateProvidersNamed in filesOrganisationsZip codes Lowest25th pctMedian75th pctHighestDoctor’s feeFacility feevs Medicare
“x Medicare” compares each price with what original Medicare pays a doctor for the same service in the same state under its physician fee schedule (RVU26D, in force from 2026-10-01) — the price for a doctor's own office. Insurers write their contracts as a share of Medicare, so 1.3x means the insurer pays 30% more than Medicare would; Medicare Advantage plans generally pay close to 1.0x.
This is a statewide summary. Prices vary far more between towns and between practices than these medians suggest; zip-code and provider-level detail is not published here; this specific data can be requested here.