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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Limited breast ultrasound, one breast

CPT 76642the billing code this page is about

A real-time ultrasound of one area or a few areas of one breast rather than the whole breast; billed once per breast studied.

Hospitals typically charge $328 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,130 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $332. Most fall between $163 and $557 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,130
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2022 – 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 3,130 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
$106$187$328$501$779

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $779).

How the prices are spread

$84 – $108: 168 hospitals$84$108 – $140: 169 hospitals$140 – $180: 248 hospitals$140$180 – $233: 330 hospitals$233 – $301: 364 hospitals$233$301 – $388: 503 hospitals$388 – $501: 415 hospitals$388$501 – $647: 334 hospitals$647 – $835: 160 hospitals$647$835 – $1,079: 129 hospitals$835median $328price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,820 of 3,130 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$84$108168
$108$140169
$140$180248
$180$233330
$233$301364
$301$388503
$388$501415
$501$647334
$647$835160
$835$1,079129

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$328
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.7×

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 $328.

Alaska: median $489 across 17 hospitalsAK$489Maine: median $203 across 24 hospitalsME$203Vermont: median $448 across 12 hospitalsVT$448New Hampshire: median $321 across 22 hospitalsNH$321Washington: median $292 across 58 hospitalsWA$292Idaho: median $330 across 20 hospitalsID$330Montana: median $262 across 15 hospitalsMT$262North Dakota: median $304 across 24 hospitalsND$304Minnesota: median $286 across 88 hospitalsMN$286Illinois: median $439 across 123 hospitalsIL$439Wisconsin: median $377 across 106 hospitalsWI$377Michigan: median $342 across 85 hospitalsMI$342New York: median $207 across 109 hospitalsNY$207Massachusetts: median $319 across 51 hospitalsMA$319Oregon: median $275 across 44 hospitalsOR$275Nevada: median $320 across 21 hospitalsNV$320Wyoming: median $405 across 13 hospitalsWY$405South Dakota: median $562 across 26 hospitalsSD$562Iowa: median $347 across 83 hospitalsIA$347Indiana: median $272 across 93 hospitalsIN$272Ohio: median $395 across 137 hospitalsOH$395Pennsylvania: median $242 across 122 hospitalsPA$242New Jersey: median $117 across 44 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: median $249 across 22 hospitalsCT$249Rhode Island: median $182 across 10 hospitalsRI$182California: median $529 across 181 hospitalsCA$529Utah: median $557 across 41 hospitalsUT$557Colorado: median $306 across 60 hospitalsCO$306Nebraska: median $400 across 77 hospitalsNE$400Missouri: median $335 across 71 hospitalsMO$335Kentucky: median $283 across 67 hospitalsKY$283West Virginia: median $250 across 38 hospitalsWV$250Virginia: median $416 across 70 hospitalsVA$416Maryland: median $466 across 33 hospitalsMD$466Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $178 across 49 hospitalsAZ$178New Mexico: median $295 across 27 hospitalsNM$295Kansas: median $270 across 77 hospitalsKS$270Arkansas: median $88 across 30 hospitalsAR$88Tennessee: median $165 across 77 hospitalsTN$165North Carolina: median $305 across 93 hospitalsNC$305South Carolina: median $501 across 52 hospitalsSC$501Oklahoma: median $334 across 59 hospitalsOK$334Louisiana: median $165 across 48 hospitalsLA$165Mississippi: median $139 across 47 hospitalsMS$139Alabama: median $255 across 39 hospitalsAL$255Georgia: median $283 across 106 hospitalsGA$283Hawaii: median $345 across 17 hospitalsHI$345Texas: median $346 across 231 hospitalsTX$346Florida: median $532 across 165 hospitalsFL$532
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $328. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD26$562+72%$442 – $776
Utah UT41$557+70%$309 – $619
Florida FL165$532+62%$218 – $1,553
California CA181$529+61%$228 – $865
South Carolina SC52$501+53%$185 – $625
Alaska AK17$489+49%$217 – $584
Maryland MD33$466+42%$317 – $570
Vermont VT12$448+37%$293 – $987
Illinois IL123$439+34%$214 – $675
Virginia VA70$416+27%$184 – $627
Wyoming WY13$405+24%$135 – $501
Nebraska NE77$400+22%$249 – $490
Ohio OH137$395+21%$224 – $537
Wisconsin WI106$377+15%$200 – $500
Iowa IA83$347+6%$238 – $468
Texas TX231$346+6%$193 – $734
Hawaii HI17$345+5%$263 – $480
Michigan MI85$342+4%$156 – $449
Missouri MO71$335+2%$173 – $510
Oklahoma OK59$334+2%$170 – $402
Idaho ID20$330+1%$272 – $413
New Hampshire NH22$321−2%$257 – $438
Nevada NV21$320−2%$168 – $421
Massachusetts MA51$319−3%$204 – $631
Colorado CO60$306−7%$154 – $433
North Carolina NC93$305−7%$195 – $466
North Dakota ND24$304−7%$223 – $358
New Mexico NM27$295−10%$123 – $486
Washington WA58$292−11%$202 – $436
Minnesota MN88$286−13%$198 – $399
Kentucky KY67$283−14%$188 – $503
Georgia GA106$283−14%$120 – $568
Oregon OR44$275−16%$204 – $402
Indiana IN93$272−17%$122 – $363
Kansas KS77$270−18%$148 – $459
Montana MT15$262−20%$175 – $298
Alabama AL39$255−22%$132 – $452
West Virginia WV38$250−24%$143 – $335
Connecticut CT22$249−24%$172 – $325
Pennsylvania PA122$242−26%$100 – $532
New York NY109$207−37%$104 – $467
Maine ME24$203−38%$105 – $540
Rhode Island RI10$182−44%$119 – $342
Arizona AZ49$178−46%$104 – $999
Tennessee TN77$165−50%$95 – $266
Louisiana LA48$165−50%$94 – $376
Mississippi MS47$139−58%$83 – $209
New Jersey NJ44$117−64%$100 – $394
Arkansas AR30$88−73%$62 – $192
Delaware DE6not 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 $328.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,270$328$154 – $570
Children’s48$486$253 – $772
Critical access802$320$182 – $486
Ownership
For-profit454$402$177 – $1,021
Government553$279$145 – $475
Non-profit2,113$328$165 – $536
System affiliation
Part of a system2,582$333$168 – $560
Independent548$269$138 – $508

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$538
Median cash price$328
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,158 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $343 and the average of the middle 60% is $349; most fall between $177 and $560.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,158 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
$117$200$343$510$746

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $746).

Of the 2,386 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,158 gave a usable cash price; 127 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,130 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,461 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,130
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here208
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,461

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 July 20, 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 Other diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as US Breast Uni Real Time With Image Limited|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, “Limited breast ultrasound, one breast (CPT 76642) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76642-limited-breast-ultrasound-one-breast