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

Limited abdominal ultrasound

CPT 76705the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound imaging of part of the abdomen, such as a single organ or one area of concern, rather than a full survey of the abdomen.

Hospitals typically charge $482 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,352 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $500. Most fall between $232 and $844 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,352
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 3,352 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
$142$281$482$747$1,276

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($142 vs $1,276).

How the prices are spread

$102 – $136: 144 hospitals$102$136 – $181: 183 hospitals$181 – $243: 220 hospitals$181$243 – $324: 279 hospitals$324 – $433: 445 hospitals$324$433 – $579: 617 hospitals$579 – $774: 536 hospitals$579$774 – $1,035: 300 hospitals$1,035 – $1,383: 170 hospitals$1,035$1,383 – $1,848: 127 hospitals$1,383median $482price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,021 of 3,352 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$102$136144
$136$181183
$181$243220
$243$324279
$324$433445
$433$579617
$579$774536
$774$1,035300
$1,035$1,383170
$1,383$1,848127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$482
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.5×

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 $482.

Alaska: median $529 across 17 hospitalsAK$529Maine: median $248 across 25 hospitalsME$248Vermont: median $502 across 12 hospitalsVT$502New Hampshire: median $458 across 22 hospitalsNH$458Washington: median $421 across 69 hospitalsWA$421Idaho: median $441 across 22 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $355 across 17 hospitalsMT$355North Dakota: median $378 across 34 hospitalsND$378Minnesota: median $382 across 100 hospitalsMN$382Illinois: median $707 across 126 hospitalsIL$707Wisconsin: median $444 across 110 hospitalsWI$444Michigan: median $390 across 86 hospitalsMI$390New York: median $291 across 113 hospitalsNY$291Massachusetts: median $439 across 52 hospitalsMA$439Oregon: median $424 across 46 hospitalsOR$424Nevada: median $694 across 21 hospitalsNV$694Wyoming: median $354 across 13 hospitalsWY$354South Dakota: median $889 across 42 hospitalsSD$889Iowa: median $494 across 87 hospitalsIA$494Indiana: median $367 across 93 hospitalsIN$367Ohio: median $552 across 140 hospitalsOH$552Pennsylvania: median $455 across 114 hospitalsPA$455New Jersey: median $159 across 58 hospitalsNJ$159Connecticut: median $253 across 22 hospitalsCT$253Rhode Island: median $409 across 10 hospitalsRI$409California: median $829 across 215 hospitalsCA$829Utah: median $537 across 41 hospitalsUT$537Colorado: median $529 across 66 hospitalsCO$529Nebraska: median $643 across 83 hospitalsNE$643Missouri: median $495 across 76 hospitalsMO$495Kentucky: median $565 across 67 hospitalsKY$565West Virginia: median $367 across 41 hospitalsWV$367Virginia: median $654 across 71 hospitalsVA$654Maryland: median $574 across 39 hospitalsMD$574Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $448 across 53 hospitalsAZ$448New Mexico: median $444 across 29 hospitalsNM$444Kansas: median $347 across 88 hospitalsKS$347Arkansas: median $157 across 38 hospitalsAR$157Tennessee: median $236 across 78 hospitalsTN$236North Carolina: median $493 across 95 hospitalsNC$493South Carolina: median $710 across 53 hospitalsSC$710Oklahoma: median $390 across 69 hospitalsOK$390Louisiana: median $244 across 54 hospitalsLA$244Mississippi: median $214 across 50 hospitalsMS$214Alabama: median $336 across 41 hospitalsAL$336Georgia: median $460 across 110 hospitalsGA$460Hawaii: median $408 across 18 hospitalsHI$408Texas: median $604 across 246 hospitalsTX$604Florida: median $1,127 across 174 hospitalsFL$1,127
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $482. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL174$1,127+134%$455 – $3,093
South Dakota SD42$889+85%$742 – $1,276
California CA215$829+72%$366 – $1,418
South Carolina SC53$710+47%$349 – $937
Illinois IL126$707+47%$362 – $1,255
Nevada NV21$694+44%$203 – $943
Virginia VA71$654+36%$388 – $924
Nebraska NE83$643+34%$340 – $779
Texas TX246$604+26%$323 – $1,355
Maryland MD39$574+19%$384 – $737
Kentucky KY67$565+17%$333 – $842
Ohio OH140$552+15%$407 – $753
Utah UT41$537+12%$409 – $748
Alaska AK17$529+10%$215 – $784
Colorado CO66$529+10%$349 – $631
Vermont VT12$502+4%$81 – $1,147
Missouri MO76$495+3%$289 – $721
Iowa IA87$494+3%$342 – $642
North Carolina NC95$493+2%$341 – $914
Georgia GA110$460−4%$186 – $1,006
New Hampshire NH22$458−5%$314 – $801
Pennsylvania PA114$455−6%$134 – $1,070
Arizona AZ53$448−7%$215 – $1,210
New Mexico NM29$444−8%$272 – $711
Wisconsin WI110$444−8%$319 – $667
Idaho ID22$441−8%$368 – $550
Massachusetts MA52$439−9%$211 – $752
Oregon OR46$424−12%$102 – $533
Washington WA69$421−13%$243 – $619
Rhode Island RI10$409−15%$116 – $454
Hawaii HI18$408−15%$213 – $558
Michigan MI86$390−19%$161 – $666
Oklahoma OK69$390−19%$259 – $571
Minnesota MN100$382−21%$202 – $605
North Dakota ND34$378−22%$297 – $490
West Virginia WV41$367−24%$232 – $558
Indiana IN93$367−24%$173 – $589
Montana MT17$355−26%$100 – $493
Wyoming WY13$354−26%$175 – $768
Kansas KS88$347−28%$160 – $532
Alabama AL41$336−30%$139 – $452
New York NY113$291−40%$131 – $728
Connecticut CT22$253−48%$139 – $494
Maine ME25$248−49%$171 – $636
Louisiana LA54$244−49%$135 – $517
Tennessee TN78$236−51%$141 – $506
Mississippi MS50$214−56%$137 – $287
New Jersey NJ58$159−67%$121 – $571
Arkansas AR38$157−67%$62 – $412
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 $482.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,358$502$227 – $930
Children’s66$606$355 – $925
Critical access918$455$242 – $713
Ownership
For-profit484$643$302 – $2,111
Government609$422$197 – $689
Non-profit2,249$478$235 – $818
System affiliation
Part of a system2,754$507$250 – $884
Independent598$389$178 – $686

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$796
Median cash price$482
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

2,333 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $516 and the average of the middle 60% is $525; most fall between $270 and $840.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,333 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
$158$319$516$753$1,209

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $1,209).

Of the 2,586 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,333 gave a usable cash price; 145 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,352 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 3,718 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,352
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here240
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 — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,718

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 Limited.

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, “Limited abdominal ultrasound (CPT 76705) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76705-limited-abdominal-ultrasound