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

Screening ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysm

CPT 76706the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound of the main abdominal blood vessel done to check for widening (an aneurysm) in a person without symptoms.

Hospitals typically charge $358 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,001 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $362. Most fall between $170 and $620 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,001
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 3,001 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
$120$198$358$549$852

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $852).

How the prices are spread

$95 – $121: 155 hospitals$95$121 – $155: 212 hospitals$155 – $198: 235 hospitals$155$198 – $253: 273 hospitals$253 – $324: 335 hospitals$253$324 – $414: 404 hospitals$414 – $529: 449 hospitals$414$529 – $677: 282 hospitals$677 – $866: 229 hospitals$677$866 – $1,107: 127 hospitals$866median $358price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,701 of 3,001 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$95$121155
$121$155212
$155$198235
$198$253273
$253$324335
$324$414404
$414$529449
$529$677282
$677$866229
$866$1,107127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$358
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.4×

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 $358.

Alaska: median $812 across 16 hospitalsAK$812Maine: median $267 across 25 hospitalsME$267Vermont: median $499 across 12 hospitalsVT$499New Hampshire: median $499 across 22 hospitalsNH$499Washington: median $336 across 65 hospitalsWA$336Idaho: median $441 across 19 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $364 across 17 hospitalsMT$364North Dakota: median $366 across 30 hospitalsND$366Minnesota: median $350 across 94 hospitalsMN$350Illinois: median $435 across 119 hospitalsIL$435Wisconsin: median $380 across 108 hospitalsWI$380Michigan: median $371 across 83 hospitalsMI$371New York: median $248 across 108 hospitalsNY$248Massachusetts: median $420 across 50 hospitalsMA$420Oregon: median $370 across 43 hospitalsOR$370Nevada: median $203 across 13 hospitalsNV$203Wyoming: median $331 across 10 hospitalsWY$331South Dakota: median $581 across 30 hospitalsSD$581Iowa: median $368 across 82 hospitalsIA$368Indiana: median $307 across 85 hospitalsIN$307Ohio: median $347 across 134 hospitalsOH$347Pennsylvania: median $250 across 113 hospitalsPA$250New Jersey: median $146 across 52 hospitalsNJ$146Connecticut: median $378 across 21 hospitalsCT$378Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $624 across 176 hospitalsCA$624Utah: median $318 across 33 hospitalsUT$318Colorado: median $421 across 58 hospitalsCO$421Nebraska: median $524 across 75 hospitalsNE$524Missouri: median $216 across 66 hospitalsMO$216Kentucky: median $404 across 63 hospitalsKY$404West Virginia: median $405 across 39 hospitalsWV$405Virginia: median $423 across 70 hospitalsVA$423Maryland: median $608 across 26 hospitalsMD$608Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $167 across 38 hospitalsAZ$167New Mexico: median $200 across 27 hospitalsNM$200Kansas: median $350 across 77 hospitalsKS$350Arkansas: median $54 across 28 hospitalsAR$54Tennessee: median $170 across 76 hospitalsTN$170North Carolina: median $274 across 93 hospitalsNC$274South Carolina: median $462 across 51 hospitalsSC$462Oklahoma: median $305 across 55 hospitalsOK$305Louisiana: median $185 across 47 hospitalsLA$185Mississippi: median $169 across 45 hospitalsMS$169Alabama: median $299 across 39 hospitalsAL$299Georgia: median $226 across 103 hospitalsGA$226Hawaii: median $293 across 14 hospitalsHI$293Texas: median $430 across 189 hospitalsTX$430Florida: median $535 across 149 hospitalsFL$535
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $358. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK16$812+127%$227 – $1,021
California CA176$624+74%$241 – $927
Maryland MD26$608+70%$405 – $709
South Dakota SD30$581+62%$440 – $769
Florida FL149$535+49%$245 – $1,125
Nebraska NE75$524+46%$251 – $673
Vermont VT12$499+39%$463 – $682
New Hampshire NH22$499+39%$320 – $715
South Carolina SC51$462+29%$298 – $573
Idaho ID19$441+23%$271 – $491
Illinois IL119$435+21%$193 – $827
Texas TX189$430+20%$263 – $708
Virginia VA70$423+18%$195 – $750
Colorado CO58$421+17%$239 – $577
Massachusetts MA50$420+17%$287 – $517
West Virginia WV39$405+13%$289 – $567
Kentucky KY63$404+13%$190 – $499
Wisconsin WI108$380+6%$151 – $558
Connecticut CT21$378+5%$268 – $518
Michigan MI83$371+4%$187 – $552
Oregon OR43$370+3%$228 – $456
Iowa IA82$368+3%$252 – $499
North Dakota ND30$366+2%$179 – $457
Montana MT17$364+2%$236 – $463
Minnesota MN94$350−2%$161 – $491
Kansas KS77$350−2%$192 – $519
Ohio OH134$347−3%$167 – $477
Washington WA65$336−6%$226 – $494
Wyoming WY10$331−8%$216 – $621
Utah UT33$318−11%$271 – $526
Indiana IN85$307−14%$187 – $483
Oklahoma OK55$305−15%$200 – $411
Alabama AL39$299−17%$144 – $462
Hawaii HI14$293−18%$184 – $506
North Carolina NC93$274−24%$133 – $429
Maine ME25$267−26%$126 – $637
Pennsylvania PA113$250−30%$125 – $713
New York NY108$248−31%$126 – $601
Georgia GA103$226−37%$129 – $693
Missouri MO66$216−40%$185 – $402
Nevada NV13$203−43%$113 – $889
New Mexico NM27$200−44%$108 – $421
Louisiana LA47$185−48%$109 – $339
Tennessee TN76$170−53%$90 – $324
Mississippi MS45$169−53%$76 – $258
Arizona AZ38$167−53%$128 – $1,615
New Jersey NJ52$146−59%$118 – $274
Arkansas AR28$54−85%$54 – $325
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $358.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,151$343$159 – $634
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access821$377$203 – $581
Ownership
For-profit381$439$160 – $883
Government533$331$171 – $586
Non-profit2,077$357$172 – $597
System affiliation
Part of a system2,489$360$170 – $624
Independent512$339$168 – $606

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$570
Median cash price$358
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

2,087 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $374 and the average of the middle 60% is $375; most fall between $176 and $624.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,087 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
$125$202$374$564$834

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $834).

Of the 2,312 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,087 gave a usable cash price; 132 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,001 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (76%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,318 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,001
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here214
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 — excluded102
Hospitals that filed this code3,318

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 PR Vas US Screening Aaa|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, “Screening ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysm (CPT 76706) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76706-screening-ultrasound-for-abdominal-aortic-aneurysm