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

Eye measurement scan for lens sizing

CPT 76516the billing code this page is about

An ultrasound measurement of the length of the eye used before cataract or lens surgery, without the lens power calculation.

Hospitals typically charge $161 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 376 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $192. Most fall between $98 and $334 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
376
States
45
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – 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 376 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
$51$105$161$297$425

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($51 vs $425).

How the prices are spread

$37 – $49: 16 hospitals$37$49 – $64: 21 hospitals$64 – $83: 10 hospitals$64$83 – $109: 42 hospitals$109 – $142: 58 hospitals$109$142 – $186: 47 hospitals$186 – $244: 20 hospitals$186$244 – $319: 65 hospitals$319 – $418: 39 hospitals$319$418 – $547: 23 hospitals$418median $161price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (341 of 376 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$37$4916
$49$6421
$64$8310
$83$10942
$109$14258
$142$18647
$186$24420
$244$31965
$319$41839
$418$54723

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$161
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.51×

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 $161.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $132 across 13 hospitalsIL$132Wisconsin: median $212 across 25 hospitalsWI$212Michigan: median $144 across 11 hospitalsMI$144New York: median $126 across 27 hospitalsNY$126Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $55 across 14 hospitalsIA$55Indiana: median $175 across 12 hospitalsIN$175Ohio: median $96 across 15 hospitalsOH$96Pennsylvania: median $106 across 24 hospitalsPA$106New Jersey: median $125 across 17 hospitalsNJ$125Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $297 across 43 hospitalsCA$297Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $284 across 13 hospitalsNC$284South Carolina: median $180 across 15 hospitalsSC$180Oklahoma: median $37 across 10 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: median $73 across 12 hospitalsLA$73Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $105 across 10 hospitalsGA$105Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $280 across 28 hospitalsTX$280Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $161. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA43$297+84%$276 – $297
North Carolina NC13$284+76%$207 – $284
Texas TX28$280+74%$256 – $334
Wisconsin WI25$212+32%$161 – $533
South Carolina SC15$180+12%$103 – $341
Indiana IN12$175+8%$154 – $236
Michigan MI11$144−11%$103 – $161
Illinois IL13$132−18%$42 – $410
New York NY27$126−22%$124 – $388
New Jersey NJ17$125−22%$118 – $140
Pennsylvania PA24$106−34%$14 – $535
Georgia GA10$105−35%$105 – $105
Ohio OH15$96−41%$96 – $138
Louisiana LA12$73−55%$58 – $126
Iowa IA14$55−66%$55 – $110
Oklahoma OK10$37−77%$37 – $37
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $161.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care320$161$101 – $334
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$161$51 – $256
Ownership
For-profit29$133$44 – $245
Government47$207$126 – $341
Non-profit299$161$96 – $334
System affiliation
Part of a system322$161$96 – $301
Independent54$189$112 – $388

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$407
Median cash price$161
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

242 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $256 and the average of the middle 60% is $230; most fall between $103 and $346.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 242 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
$55$109$256$334$533

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($55 vs $533).

Of the 277 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 242 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

376 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 416 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted376
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code416

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 PR Sono Eye Biometry.

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, “Eye measurement scan for lens sizing (CPT 76516) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76516-eye-measurement-scan-for-lens-sizing