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Procedure price report · Diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of abdomen or retroperitoneum

Complete abdominal ultrasound

CPT 76700the billing code this page is about

A real-time ultrasound survey of the organs of the abdomen, including liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, spleen and major blood vessels, with images saved.

Hospitals typically charge $667 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,353 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $687. Most fall between $338 and $1,178 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,353
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 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 3,353 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
$209$398$667$1,030$1,772

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($209 vs $1,772).

How the prices are spread

$127 – $172: 94 hospitals$127$172 – $233: 130 hospitals$233 – $315: 236 hospitals$233$315 – $427: 313 hospitals$427 – $578: 481 hospitals$427$578 – $782: 574 hospitals$782 – $1,059: 546 hospitals$782$1,059 – $1,433: 350 hospitals$1,433 – $1,940: 182 hospitals$1,433$1,940 – $2,627: 114 hospitals$1,940median $667price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,020 of 3,353 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$127$17294
$172$233130
$233$315236
$315$427313
$427$578481
$578$782574
$782$1,059546
$1,059$1,433350
$1,433$1,940182
$1,940$2,627114

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$667
Cash as a multiple of Medicare6.2×

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 $667.

Alaska: median $1,101 across 17 hospitalsAK$1,101Maine: median $405 across 25 hospitalsME$405Vermont: median $802 across 12 hospitalsVT$802New Hampshire: median $615 across 22 hospitalsNH$615Washington: median $630 across 69 hospitalsWA$630Idaho: median $475 across 22 hospitalsID$475Montana: median $491 across 17 hospitalsMT$491North Dakota: median $507 across 34 hospitalsND$507Minnesota: median $534 across 100 hospitalsMN$534Illinois: median $966 across 126 hospitalsIL$966Wisconsin: median $611 across 110 hospitalsWI$611Michigan: median $744 across 86 hospitalsMI$744New York: median $340 across 114 hospitalsNY$340Massachusetts: median $744 across 52 hospitalsMA$744Oregon: median $595 across 46 hospitalsOR$595Nevada: median $871 across 21 hospitalsNV$871Wyoming: median $782 across 13 hospitalsWY$782South Dakota: median $1,214 across 42 hospitalsSD$1,214Iowa: median $694 across 87 hospitalsIA$694Indiana: median $520 across 96 hospitalsIN$520Ohio: median $627 across 140 hospitalsOH$627Pennsylvania: median $651 across 114 hospitalsPA$651New Jersey: median $179 across 58 hospitalsNJ$179Connecticut: median $378 across 22 hospitalsCT$378Rhode Island: median $455 across 10 hospitalsRI$455California: median $991 across 217 hospitalsCA$991Utah: median $730 across 42 hospitalsUT$730Colorado: median $679 across 65 hospitalsCO$679Nebraska: median $843 across 82 hospitalsNE$843Missouri: median $678 across 76 hospitalsMO$678Kentucky: median $832 across 67 hospitalsKY$832West Virginia: median $447 across 41 hospitalsWV$447Virginia: median $869 across 71 hospitalsVA$869Maryland: median $733 across 39 hospitalsMD$733Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $563 across 53 hospitalsAZ$563New Mexico: median $545 across 30 hospitalsNM$545Kansas: median $463 across 86 hospitalsKS$463Arkansas: median $370 across 38 hospitalsAR$370Tennessee: median $385 across 78 hospitalsTN$385North Carolina: median $685 across 95 hospitalsNC$685South Carolina: median $950 across 53 hospitalsSC$950Oklahoma: median $527 across 68 hospitalsOK$527Louisiana: median $339 across 55 hospitalsLA$339Mississippi: median $325 across 50 hospitalsMS$325Alabama: median $449 across 42 hospitalsAL$449Georgia: median $581 across 110 hospitalsGA$581Hawaii: median $508 across 18 hospitalsHI$508Texas: median $786 across 242 hospitalsTX$786Florida: median $1,479 across 174 hospitalsFL$1,479
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $667. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL174$1,479+122%$615 – $5,248
South Dakota SD42$1,214+82%$1,000 – $1,588
Alaska AK17$1,101+65%$483 – $1,250
California CA217$991+49%$423 – $1,830
Illinois IL126$966+45%$525 – $1,645
South Carolina SC53$950+43%$251 – $1,286
Nevada NV21$871+31%$240 – $1,166
Virginia VA71$869+30%$527 – $1,733
Nebraska NE82$843+26%$599 – $1,043
Kentucky KY67$832+25%$498 – $1,012
Vermont VT12$802+20%$461 – $1,880
Texas TX242$786+18%$447 – $1,950
Wyoming WY13$782+17%$300 – $1,245
Massachusetts MA52$744+12%$488 – $1,214
Michigan MI86$744+12%$356 – $921
Maryland MD39$733+10%$491 – $942
Utah UT42$730+9%$630 – $914
Iowa IA87$694+4%$487 – $945
North Carolina NC95$685+3%$523 – $1,089
Colorado CO65$679+2%$433 – $945
Missouri MO76$678+2%$479 – $1,084
Pennsylvania PA114$651−2%$184 – $1,308
Washington WA69$630−5%$338 – $798
Ohio OH140$627−6%$403 – $998
New Hampshire NH22$615−8%$523 – $1,381
Wisconsin WI110$611−8%$370 – $915
Oregon OR46$595−11%$430 – $744
Georgia GA110$581−13%$285 – $1,305
Arizona AZ53$563−16%$303 – $2,413
New Mexico NM30$545−18%$352 – $932
Minnesota MN100$534−20%$278 – $878
Oklahoma OK68$527−21%$319 – $757
Indiana IN96$520−22%$189 – $796
Hawaii HI18$508−24%$493 – $638
North Dakota ND34$507−24%$411 – $614
Montana MT17$491−26%$375 – $625
Idaho ID22$475−29%$441 – $697
Kansas KS86$463−31%$262 – $811
Rhode Island RI10$455−32%$163 – $505
Alabama AL42$449−33%$231 – $670
West Virginia WV41$447−33%$374 – $646
Maine ME25$405−39%$175 – $858
Tennessee TN78$385−42%$236 – $862
Connecticut CT22$378−43%$236 – $545
Arkansas AR38$370−45%$226 – $554
New York NY114$340−49%$131 – $1,200
Louisiana LA55$339−49%$164 – $656
Mississippi MS50$325−51%$232 – $440
New Jersey NJ58$179−73%$125 – $571
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 $667.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,363$674$312 – $1,275
Children’s65$801$470 – $1,285
Critical access915$631$365 – $951
Ownership
For-profit486$1,004$420 – $3,219
Government606$581$289 – $949
Non-profit2,251$655$342 – $1,106
System affiliation
Part of a system2,754$686$360 – $1,207
Independent599$567$257 – $1,005

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,106
Median cash price$667
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

2,306 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $704 and the average of the middle 60% is $724; most fall between $384 and $1,184.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,306 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
$248$430$704$1,045$1,641

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($248 vs $1,641).

Of the 2,556 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,306 gave a usable cash price; 139 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,353 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,714 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,353
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here237
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 — excluded123
Hospitals that filed this code3,714

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 Diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of abdomen or retroperitoneum family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as US Abdominal Real Time W/Image Documentation|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, “Complete abdominal ultrasound (CPT 76700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76700-complete-abdominal-ultrasound