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

Ultrasound of the spinal canal

CPT 76800the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound imaging of the spinal canal and the tissues inside it.

Hospitals typically charge $415 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,426 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $438. Most fall between $210 and $792 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,426
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 2,426 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
$128$251$415$671$1,204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $1,204).

How the prices are spread

$103 – $136: 147 hospitals$103$136 – $179: 145 hospitals$179 – $236: 147 hospitals$179$236 – $312: 254 hospitals$312 – $411: 391 hospitals$312$411 – $542: 391 hospitals$542 – $715: 285 hospitals$542$715 – $943: 208 hospitals$943 – $1,244: 100 hospitals$943$1,244 – $1,641: 118 hospitals$1,244median $415price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,186 of 2,426 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$103$136147
$136$179145
$179$236147
$236$312254
$312$411391
$411$542391
$542$715285
$715$943208
$943$1,244100
$1,244$1,641118

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$415
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.9×

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 $415.

Alaska: median $708 across 10 hospitalsAK$708Maine: median $231 across 16 hospitalsME$231Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $645 across 16 hospitalsNH$645Washington: median $406 across 54 hospitalsWA$406Idaho: median $441 across 17 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $425 across 10 hospitalsMT$425North Dakota: median $428 across 10 hospitalsND$428Minnesota: median $335 across 67 hospitalsMN$335Illinois: median $470 across 87 hospitalsIL$470Wisconsin: median $406 across 87 hospitalsWI$406Michigan: median $459 across 59 hospitalsMI$459New York: median $321 across 105 hospitalsNY$321Massachusetts: median $438 across 40 hospitalsMA$438Oregon: median $403 across 42 hospitalsOR$403Nevada: median $354 across 16 hospitalsNV$354Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $487 across 14 hospitalsSD$487Iowa: median $418 across 42 hospitalsIA$418Indiana: median $317 across 77 hospitalsIN$317Ohio: median $495 across 102 hospitalsOH$495Pennsylvania: median $394 across 101 hospitalsPA$394New Jersey: median $147 across 53 hospitalsNJ$147Connecticut: median $386 across 15 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $539 across 193 hospitalsCA$539Utah: median $711 across 34 hospitalsUT$711Colorado: median $433 across 50 hospitalsCO$433Nebraska: median $397 across 35 hospitalsNE$397Missouri: median $440 across 45 hospitalsMO$440Kentucky: median $432 across 47 hospitalsKY$432West Virginia: median $403 across 17 hospitalsWV$403Virginia: median $488 across 59 hospitalsVA$488Maryland: median $733 across 32 hospitalsMD$733Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $312 across 40 hospitalsAZ$312New Mexico: median $307 across 16 hospitalsNM$307Kansas: median $326 across 36 hospitalsKS$326Arkansas: median $204 across 15 hospitalsAR$204Tennessee: median $168 across 62 hospitalsTN$168North Carolina: median $399 across 75 hospitalsNC$399South Carolina: median $476 across 50 hospitalsSC$476Oklahoma: median $296 across 36 hospitalsOK$296Louisiana: median $201 across 38 hospitalsLA$201Mississippi: median $201 across 37 hospitalsMS$201Alabama: median $246 across 32 hospitalsAL$246Georgia: median $218 across 71 hospitalsGA$218Hawaii: median $451 across 14 hospitalsHI$451Texas: median $493 across 195 hospitalsTX$493Florida: median $671 across 131 hospitalsFL$671
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $415. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD32$733+77%$550 – $942
Utah UT34$711+71%$424 – $836
Alaska AK10$708+71%$331 – $917
Florida FL131$671+62%$451 – $1,844
New Hampshire NH16$645+56%$314 – $751
California CA193$539+30%$286 – $1,307
Ohio OH102$495+19%$353 – $840
Texas TX195$493+19%$213 – $1,211
Virginia VA59$488+18%$286 – $964
South Dakota SD14$487+17%$399 – $1,091
South Carolina SC50$476+15%$298 – $618
Illinois IL87$470+13%$263 – $1,008
Michigan MI59$459+11%$218 – $852
Hawaii HI14$451+9%$358 – $720
Idaho ID17$441+6%$385 – $627
Missouri MO45$440+6%$283 – $824
Massachusetts MA40$438+6%$268 – $665
Colorado CO50$433+4%$296 – $715
Kentucky KY47$432+4%$272 – $852
North Dakota ND10$428+3%$230 – $543
Montana MT10$425+2%$304 – $543
Iowa IA42$418+1%$311 – $677
Washington WA54$406−2%$306 – $543
Wisconsin WI87$406−2%$304 – $619
Oregon OR42$403−3%$330 – $612
West Virginia WV17$403−3%$260 – $791
North Carolina NC75$399−4%$220 – $616
Nebraska NE35$397−4%$291 – $749
Pennsylvania PA101$394−5%$125 – $810
Connecticut CT15$386−7%$253 – $526
Nevada NV16$354−15%$158 – $1,387
Minnesota MN67$335−19%$208 – $458
Kansas KS36$326−21%$140 – $1,261
New York NY105$321−23%$133 – $576
Indiana IN77$317−24%$161 – $436
Arizona AZ40$312−25%$149 – $1,583
New Mexico NM16$307−26%$220 – $370
Oklahoma OK36$296−29%$217 – $410
Alabama AL32$246−41%$144 – $402
Maine ME16$231−44%$117 – $530
Georgia GA71$218−48%$94 – $503
Arkansas AR15$204−51%$83 – $415
Mississippi MS37$201−51%$117 – $340
Louisiana LA38$201−52%$112 – $365
Tennessee TN62$168−60%$63 – $376
New Jersey NJ53$147−65%$121 – $382
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not 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 $415.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,970$406$198 – $795
Children’s63$624$450 – $1,150
Critical access385$410$260 – $711
Ownership
For-profit346$549$220 – $1,942
Government341$347$161 – $586
Non-profit1,731$415$222 – $713
System affiliation
Part of a system2,066$421$213 – $795
Independent360$379$201 – $725

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$728
Median cash price$415
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,722 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $437 and the average of the middle 60% is $454; most fall between $237 and $782.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,722 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
$144$281$437$666$1,070

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($144 vs $1,070).

Of the 1,892 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,722 gave a usable cash price; 91 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 79 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,426 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,664 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,426
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here151
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 — excluded86
Hospitals that filed this code2,664

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ultrasound Spinal Canal & Contents|TECHNICAL 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, “Ultrasound of the spinal canal (CPT 76800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76800-ultrasound-of-the-spinal-canal