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

Eye ultrasound to locate a foreign object

CPT 76529the billing code this page is about

An ultrasound study of the eye done to find and locate a foreign body inside it.

Hospitals typically charge $148 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 399 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $165. Most fall between $86 and $351 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
399
States
45
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 399 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
$56$96$148$264$610

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $610).

How the prices are spread

$41 – $54: 18 hospitals$41$54 – $71: 13 hospitals$71 – $94: 47 hospitals$71$94 – $125: 86 hospitals$125 – $165: 31 hospitals$125$165 – $217: 40 hospitals$217 – $287: 53 hospitals$217$287 – $379: 18 hospitals$379 – $501: 29 hospitals$379$501 – $662: 26 hospitals$501median $148price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (361 of 399 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$41$5418
$54$7113
$71$9447
$94$12586
$125$16531
$165$21740
$217$28753
$287$37918
$379$50129
$501$66226

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$148
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.66×

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 $148.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $74 across 12 hospitalsIL$74Wisconsin: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $109 across 37 hospitalsNY$109Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 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 $74 across 14 hospitalsIA$74Indiana: median $129 across 17 hospitalsIN$129Ohio: median $144 across 11 hospitalsOH$144Pennsylvania: median $103 across 39 hospitalsPA$103New Jersey: median $98 across 13 hospitalsNJ$98Connecticut: 6 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 $350 across 56 hospitalsCA$350Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $248 across 14 hospitalsVA$248Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $264 across 10 hospitalsNC$264South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $53 across 10 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $108 across 14 hospitalsGA$108Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $351 across 23 hospitalsTX$351Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $148. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX23$351+138%$116 – $461
California CA56$350+137%$224 – $610
North Carolina NC10$264+79%$251 – $264
Virginia VA14$248+68%$248 – $398
Ohio OH11$144−2%$80 – $148
Indiana IN17$129−12%$104 – $168
New York NY37$109−26%$104 – $356
Georgia GA14$108−27%$108 – $148
Pennsylvania PA39$103−30%$23 – $197
New Jersey NJ13$98−34%$97 – $113
Iowa IA14$74−50%$74 – $806
Illinois IL12$74−50%$41 – $200
Oklahoma OK10$53−64%$53 – $53
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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
Vermont VT1not 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 $148.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care337$144$88 – $379
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$129$71 – $264
Ownership
For-profit43$185$88 – $483
Government49$108$80 – $246
Non-profit307$156$88 – $350
System affiliation
Part of a system340$144$86 – $350
Independent59$166$86 – $417

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$301
Median cash price$148
Cash as a share of list, median hospital58%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 42%. 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

241 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $224 and the average of the middle 60% is $237; most fall between $97 and $461.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 241 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
$74$108$224$401$610

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $610).

Of the 293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 241 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

399 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 456 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted399
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code456

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 F.B. Localizatn.

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 to locate a foreign object (CPT 76529) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76529-eye-ultrasound-to-locate-a-foreign-object