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

Unlisted procedure on the fetus using ultrasound guidance

CPT 59897the billing code this page is about

Used for an invasive procedure performed on a fetus, guided by ultrasound, that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $468 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 310 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $444. Most fall between $239 and $816 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
310
States
35
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 310 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
$202$258$468$666$1,486

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($202 vs $1,486).

How the prices are spread

$112 – $159: 13 hospitals$112$159 – $227: 16 hospitals$227 – $322: 70 hospitals$227$322 – $458: 40 hospitals$458 – $651: 76 hospitals$458$651 – $926: 24 hospitals$926 – $1,317: 12 hospitals$926$1,317 – $1,873: 17 hospitals$1,873 – $2,663: 8 hospitals$1,873$2,663 – $3,786: 4 hospitals$2,663median $468price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (280 of 310 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$112$15913
$159$22716
$227$32270
$322$45840
$458$65176
$651$92624
$926$1,31712
$1,317$1,87317
$1,873$2,6638
$2,663$3,7864

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$207
Median cash price$468
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $468.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $607 across 12 hospitalsIL$607Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $240 across 30 hospitalsNY$240Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $299 across 13 hospitalsIN$299Ohio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $239 across 29 hospitalsPA$239New Jersey: median $268 across 32 hospitalsNJ$268Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $498 across 32 hospitalsCA$498Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $1,327 across 10 hospitalsCO$1,327Nebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $647 across 10 hospitalsNC$647South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $493 across 29 hospitalsTX$493Florida: median $303 across 11 hospitalsFL$303
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $468. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO10$1,327+183%$274 – $1,327
North Carolina NC10$647+38%$647 – $647
Illinois IL12$607+30%$452 – $607
California CA32$498+6%$219 – $498
Texas TX29$493+5%$493 – $695
Florida FL11$303−35%$303 – $388
Indiana IN13$299−36%$262 – $423
New Jersey NJ32$268−43%$223 – $5,110
New York NY30$240−49%$238 – $605
Pennsylvania PA29$239−49%$50 – $349
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $468.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care289$476$239 – $820
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access12fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$493$205 – $656
Government38$452$238 – $647
Non-profit250$455$240 – $957
System affiliation
Part of a system276$476$240 – $820
Independent34$369$215 – $749

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$821
Median cash price$468
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

218 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $498 and the average of the middle 60% is $531; most fall between $262 and $999.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 218 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
$149$305$498$820$2,116

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($149 vs $2,116).

Of the 250 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 218 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

310 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 330 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted310
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code330

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 PR Fetal Intracardiac Injection Including US Guidance C/T 59070.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the fetus using ultrasound guidance (CPT 59897) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-59897-unlisted-procedure-on-the-fetus-using-ultrasound-guidance