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

Corneal thickness measurement by ultrasound

CPT 76514the billing code this page is about

An ultrasound reading of the thickness of the cornea; one charge covers one or both eyes.

Hospitals typically charge $36 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 550 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $19 and $107 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
550
States
48
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 550 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
$9$22$36$97$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $134).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 26 hospitals$6$9 – $13: 34 hospitals$13 – $18: 22 hospitals$13$18 – $25: 46 hospitals$25 – $35: 119 hospitals$25$35 – $50: 47 hospitals$50 – $71: 44 hospitals$50$71 – $100: 58 hospitals$100 – $141: 79 hospitals$100$141 – $199: 25 hospitals$141median $36price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (500 of 550 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$926
$9$1334
$13$1822
$18$2546
$25$35119
$35$5047
$50$7144
$71$10058
$100$14179
$141$19925

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$36
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $36.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $33 across 10 hospitalsWA$33Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $29 across 22 hospitalsMN$29Illinois: median $30 across 22 hospitalsIL$30Wisconsin: median $44 across 45 hospitalsWI$44Michigan: median $28 across 19 hospitalsMI$28New York: median $32 across 38 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $105 across 15 hospitalsMA$105Oregon: 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 $10 across 14 hospitalsIA$10Indiana: median $106 across 24 hospitalsIN$106Ohio: median $57 across 30 hospitalsOH$57Pennsylvania: median $32 across 35 hospitalsPA$32New Jersey: median $29 across 16 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $71 across 55 hospitalsCA$71Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $14 across 14 hospitalsWV$14Virginia: median $97 across 11 hospitalsVA$97Maryland: 7 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 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 $6 across 10 hospitalsOK$6Louisiana: median $32 across 21 hospitalsLA$32Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $32 across 14 hospitalsGA$32Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $101 across 25 hospitalsTX$101Florida: median $40 across 11 hospitalsFL$40
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $36. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN24$106+193%$13 – $146
Massachusetts MA15$105+191%$87 – $124
Texas TX25$101+179%$28 – $107
Virginia VA11$97+167%$97 – $303
California CA55$71+97%$39 – $109
Ohio OH30$57+57%$22 – $110
Wisconsin WI45$44+23%$28 – $70
Florida FL11$40+12%$13 – $121
Washington WA10$33−9%$20 – $77
Georgia GA14$32−10%$32 – $198
Louisiana LA21$32−11%$8 – $86
New York NY38$32−12%$29 – $75
Pennsylvania PA35$32−12%$5 – $62
Illinois IL22$30−17%$10 – $163
Minnesota MN22$29−20%$25 – $243
New Jersey NJ16$29−20%$27 – $39
Michigan MI19$28−23%$18 – $40
West Virginia WV14$14−62%$9 – $56
Iowa IA14$10−73%$10 – $28
Oklahoma OK10$6−83%$6 – $6
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $36.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care440$40$20 – $107
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access93$29$13 – $93
Ownership
For-profit43$32$11 – $100
Government71$35$25 – $102
Non-profit435$38$18 – $107
System affiliation
Part of a system457$35$19 – $107
Independent93$42$22 – $113

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$75
Median cash price$36
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

351 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $56 and the average of the middle 60% is $60; most fall between $22 and $109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 351 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
$10$26$56$107$141

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $141).

Of the 401 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 351 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

550 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 619 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted550
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code619

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 Corneal Pachymetry Uni/Bi.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Corneal thickness measurement by ultrasound (CPT 76514) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76514-corneal-thickness-measurement-by-ultrasound