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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Ultrasound from inside a blood vessel, first vessel

CPT 37252the billing code this page is about

A tiny ultrasound probe on a catheter images the inside of a blood vessel other than the heart arteries during testing or treatment; this charge covers the first vessel examined.

Hospitals typically charge $2,596 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,748 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,818. Most fall between $1,011 and $5,385 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,748
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,748 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$473$1,229$2,596$4,612$7,597

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($473 vs $7,597).

How the prices are spread

$252 – $368: 52 hospitals$252$368 – $536: 57 hospitals$536 – $782: 59 hospitals$536$782 – $1,141: 149 hospitals$1,141 – $1,665: 158 hospitals$1,141$1,665 – $2,428: 257 hospitals$2,428 – $3,542: 272 hospitals$2,428$3,542 – $5,167: 286 hospitals$5,167 – $7,537: 194 hospitals$5,167$7,537 – $10,995: 91 hospitals$7,537median $2,596price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,575 of 1,748 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$252$36852
$368$53657
$536$78259
$782$1,141149
$1,141$1,665158
$1,665$2,428257
$2,428$3,542272
$3,542$5,167286
$5,167$7,537194
$7,537$10,99591

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,596.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,547 across 40 hospitalsWA$2,547Idaho: median $5,416 across 13 hospitalsID$5,416Montana: median $868 across 10 hospitalsMT$868North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,548 across 41 hospitalsMN$2,548Illinois: median $2,453 across 79 hospitalsIL$2,453Wisconsin: median $1,870 across 59 hospitalsWI$1,870Michigan: median $4,175 across 54 hospitalsMI$4,175New York: median $838 across 45 hospitalsNY$838Massachusetts: median $1,253 across 30 hospitalsMA$1,253Oregon: median $1,760 across 30 hospitalsOR$1,760Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,792 across 23 hospitalsIA$2,792Indiana: median $1,770 across 49 hospitalsIN$1,770Ohio: median $3,511 across 103 hospitalsOH$3,511Pennsylvania: median $2,767 across 81 hospitalsPA$2,767New Jersey: median $4,881 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: median $1,664 across 15 hospitalsCT$1,664Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,250 across 143 hospitalsCA$3,250Utah: median $4,153 across 26 hospitalsUT$4,153Colorado: median $2,218 across 32 hospitalsCO$2,218Nebraska: median $2,114 across 19 hospitalsNE$2,114Missouri: median $2,145 across 45 hospitalsMO$2,145Kentucky: median $3,773 across 26 hospitalsKY$3,773West Virginia: median $801 across 13 hospitalsWV$801Virginia: median $1,817 across 41 hospitalsVA$1,817Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,276 across 34 hospitalsAZ$2,276New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $3,501 across 18 hospitalsKS$3,501Arkansas: median $1,141 across 17 hospitalsAR$1,141Tennessee: median $1,039 across 43 hospitalsTN$1,039North Carolina: median $1,834 across 49 hospitalsNC$1,834South Carolina: median $3,136 across 29 hospitalsSC$3,136Oklahoma: median $1,768 across 33 hospitalsOK$1,768Louisiana: median $2,087 across 38 hospitalsLA$2,087Mississippi: median $2,010 across 25 hospitalsMS$2,010Alabama: median $3,505 across 23 hospitalsAL$3,505Georgia: median $1,789 across 63 hospitalsGA$1,789Hawaii: median $1,054 across 10 hospitalsHI$1,054Texas: median $4,393 across 149 hospitalsTX$4,393Florida: median $3,494 across 100 hospitalsFL$3,494
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,596. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID13$5,416+109%$1,000 – $6,789
New Jersey NJ35$4,881+88%$2,035 – $6,839
Texas TX149$4,393+69%$1,782 – $7,841
Michigan MI54$4,175+61%$1,677 – $14,807
Utah UT26$4,153+60%$4,153 – $4,886
Kentucky KY26$3,773+45%$1,205 – $8,398
Ohio OH103$3,511+35%$2,061 – $5,094
Alabama AL23$3,505+35%$1,464 – $12,506
Kansas KS18$3,501+35%$1,150 – $4,899
Florida FL100$3,494+35%$2,044 – $5,848
California CA143$3,250+25%$1,028 – $5,961
South Carolina SC29$3,136+21%$965 – $3,136
Iowa IA23$2,792+8%$1,344 – $5,438
Pennsylvania PA81$2,767+7%$1,007 – $6,047
Minnesota MN41$2,548−2%$623 – $5,765
Washington WA40$2,547−2%$1,962 – $4,505
Illinois IL79$2,453−6%$1,472 – $6,293
Arizona AZ34$2,276−12%$1,502 – $4,521
Colorado CO32$2,218−15%$1,608 – $4,479
Missouri MO45$2,145−17%$1,319 – $4,575
Nebraska NE19$2,114−19%$509 – $3,528
Louisiana LA38$2,087−20%$638 – $4,254
Mississippi MS25$2,010−23%$955 – $3,136
Wisconsin WI59$1,870−28%$1,164 – $3,374
North Carolina NC49$1,834−29%$766 – $3,301
Virginia VA41$1,817−30%$821 – $3,754
Georgia GA63$1,789−31%$1,635 – $4,221
Indiana IN49$1,770−32%$974 – $4,528
Oklahoma OK33$1,768−32%$1,131 – $6,211
Oregon OR30$1,760−32%$253 – $3,923
Connecticut CT15$1,664−36%$771 – $3,886
Massachusetts MA30$1,253−52%$589 – $2,997
Arkansas AR17$1,141−56%$224 – $2,556
Hawaii HI10$1,054−59%$421 – $2,417
Tennessee TN43$1,039−60%$184 – $3,413
Montana MT10$868−67%$254 – $1,716
New York NY45$838−68%$288 – $2,835
West Virginia WV13$801−69%$268 – $1,581
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $2,596.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,559$2,702$1,008 – $5,416
Children’s35$2,547$959 – $4,633
Critical access146$1,984$1,024 – $5,623
Ownership
For-profit206$3,561$1,397 – $8,135
Government205$1,834$932 – $3,615
Non-profit1,329$2,763$1,007 – $5,241
System affiliation
Part of a system1,517$2,763$1,060 – $5,499
Independent231$2,374$473 – $4,609

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,521
Median cash price$2,596
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,367 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,853 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,938; most fall between $1,039 and $5,438.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,367 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$460$1,306$2,853$4,757$7,253

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($460 vs $7,253).

Of the 1,511 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,367 gave a usable cash price; 66 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,748 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,992 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,748
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here112
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded128
Hospitals that filed this code1,992

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Intravascular US Noncoronary Rs&I Intial Vessel.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Ultrasound from inside a blood vessel, first vessel (CPT 37252) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-37252-ultrasound-from-inside-a-blood-vessel-first-vessel