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Procedure price report · Diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of head and neck

Eye ultrasound, measurement A-scan only

CPT 76511the billing code this page is about

An ultrasound of the eye that produces measurement readings only, without a picture-type B-scan image.

Hospitals typically charge $217 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 438 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $242. Most fall between $116 and $421 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
438
States
42
Filings dated
Dec 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 438 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
$75$126$217$368$542

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $542).

How the prices are spread

$41 – $55: 17 hospitals$41$55 – $74: 6 hospitals$74 – $99: 26 hospitals$74$99 – $132: 66 hospitals$132 – $176: 52 hospitals$132$176 – $236: 38 hospitals$236 – $315: 48 hospitals$236$315 – $422: 83 hospitals$422 – $564: 46 hospitals$422$564 – $754: 20 hospitals$564median $217price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (402 of 438 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$41$5517
$55$746
$74$9926
$99$13266
$132$17652
$176$23638
$236$31548
$315$42283
$422$56446
$564$75420

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$217
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.0×

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 $217.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $338 across 14 hospitalsWA$338Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $194 across 20 hospitalsMN$194Illinois: median $137 across 16 hospitalsIL$137Wisconsin: median $371 across 21 hospitalsWI$371Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $126 across 32 hospitalsNY$126Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $168 across 16 hospitalsOR$168Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $88 across 14 hospitalsIA$88Indiana: median $117 across 13 hospitalsIN$117Ohio: median $283 across 33 hospitalsOH$283Pennsylvania: median $26 across 17 hospitalsPA$26New Jersey: median $118 across 12 hospitalsNJ$118Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $336 across 48 hospitalsCA$336Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $41 across 11 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $145 across 19 hospitalsLA$145Mississippi: median $142 across 12 hospitalsMS$142Alabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $299 across 45 hospitalsTX$299Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $217. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI21$371+71%$364 – $542
Washington WA14$338+56%$283 – $540
California CA48$336+55%$336 – $421
Texas TX45$299+38%$265 – $368
Ohio OH33$283+31%$128 – $477
Minnesota MN20$194−11%$159 – $238
Oregon OR16$168−23%$39 – $210
Louisiana LA19$145−33%$66 – $209
Mississippi MS12$142−35%$72 – $142
Illinois IL16$137−37%$42 – $313
New York NY32$126−42%$126 – $477
New Jersey NJ12$118−46%$118 – $135
Indiana IN13$117−46%$103 – $166
Iowa IA14$88−59%$88 – $96
Oklahoma OK11$41−81%$41 – $217
Pennsylvania PA17$26−88%$22 – $151
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $217.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care368$217$116 – $421
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access51$184$88 – $364
Ownership
For-profit38$265$128 – $473
Government42$159$126 – $345
Non-profit358$225$111 – $421
System affiliation
Part of a system384$215$111 – $421
Independent54$253$134 – $524

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$439
Median cash price$217
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

270 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $292 and the average of the middle 60% is $281; most fall between $128 and $468.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 270 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
$88$145$292$421$542

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $542).

Of the 308 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 270 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

438 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 478 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted438
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code478

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 Diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ophthalmic US Dx Quantitative a-Scan Only|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “Eye ultrasound, measurement A-scan only (CPT 76511) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76511-eye-ultrasound-measurement-a-scan-only