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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic obstetrical procedures including antepartum and postpartum care

Draining fluid from the fetus, with ultrasound guidance

CPT 59074the billing code this page is about

A needle is used to drain an abnormal fluid collection from the fetus, such as from the chest, bladder, or abdomen; ultrasound guidance is included.

Hospitals typically charge $588 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 535 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $648. Most fall between $344 and $1,221 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
535
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 535 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
$236$374$588$1,032$1,748

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($236 vs $1,748).

How the prices are spread

$148 – $202: 16 hospitals$148$202 – $276: 31 hospitals$276 – $377: 61 hospitals$276$377 – $515: 90 hospitals$515 – $704: 104 hospitals$515$704 – $963: 65 hospitals$963 – $1,316: 47 hospitals$963$1,316 – $1,799: 47 hospitals$1,799 – $2,459: 12 hospitals$1,799$2,459 – $3,361: 10 hospitals$2,459median $588price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (483 of 535 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$148$20216
$202$27631
$276$37761
$377$51590
$515$704104
$704$96365
$963$1,31647
$1,316$1,79947
$1,799$2,45912
$2,459$3,36110

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$311
Median cash price$588
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.89×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $588.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $485 across 17 hospitalsWA$485Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $148 across 11 hospitalsMN$148Illinois: median $640 across 16 hospitalsIL$640Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $419 across 23 hospitalsMI$419New York: median $380 across 30 hospitalsNY$380Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $933 across 16 hospitalsIA$933Indiana: median $686 across 24 hospitalsIN$686Ohio: median $986 across 40 hospitalsOH$986Pennsylvania: median $514 across 36 hospitalsPA$514New Jersey: median $406 across 34 hospitalsNJ$406Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $869 across 45 hospitalsCA$869Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $394 across 14 hospitalsMO$394Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $669 across 17 hospitalsVA$669Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,987 across 11 hospitalsAZ$2,987New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $434 across 11 hospitalsNC$434South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $507 across 13 hospitalsOK$507Louisiana: median $150 across 14 hospitalsLA$150Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $626 across 14 hospitalsGA$626Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $577 across 21 hospitalsTX$577Florida: median $945 across 20 hospitalsFL$945
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $588. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$2,987+408%$486 – $2,987
Ohio OH40$986+68%$457 – $1,937
Florida FL20$945+61%$378 – $945
Iowa IA16$933+59%$798 – $933
California CA45$869+48%$588 – $1,624
Indiana IN24$686+17%$473 – $1,218
Virginia VA17$669+14%$247 – $1,639
Illinois IL16$640+9%$490 – $1,124
Georgia GA14$626+7%$626 – $1,748
Texas TX21$577−2%$577 – $607
Pennsylvania PA36$514−12%$60 – $1,254
Oklahoma OK13$507−14%$507 – $620
Washington WA17$485−17%$240 – $701
North Carolina NC11$434−26%$227 – $454
Michigan MI23$419−29%$344 – $704
New Jersey NJ34$406−31%$337 – $5,110
Missouri MO14$394−33%$394 – $715
New York NY30$380−35%$360 – $1,029
Louisiana LA14$150−74%$108 – $683
Minnesota MN11$148−75%$148 – $246
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $588.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care477$587$344 – $1,182
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$774$344 – $1,218
Ownership
For-profit38$607$459 – $1,255
Government58$631$360 – $1,032
Non-profit435$588$344 – $1,227
System affiliation
Part of a system479$588$344 – $1,221
Independent56$631$374 – $965

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,111
Median cash price$588
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

406 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $606 and the average of the middle 60% is $684; most fall between $350 and $1,221.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 406 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
$220$434$606$1,034$1,639

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($220 vs $1,639).

Of the 424 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 406 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

535 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 562 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted535
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code562

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 therapeutic obstetrical procedures including antepartum and postpartum care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Ftl Fluid US Guide 59074.

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, “Draining fluid from the fetus, with ultrasound guidance (CPT 59074) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-59074-draining-fluid-from-the-fetus-with-ultrasound-guidance