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

Early pregnancy ultrasound, first baby (under 14 weeks)

CPT 76801the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound of the uterus before 14 weeks of pregnancy through the abdomen, checking the pregnancy, the fetus, and the mother's pelvic organs; covers one fetus.

Hospitals typically charge $463 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,231 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $481. Most fall between $239 and $812 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,231
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 3,231 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$272$463$725$1,217

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($144 vs $1,217).

How the prices are spread

$110 – $145: 164 hospitals$110$145 – $191: 141 hospitals$191 – $252: 220 hospitals$191$252 – $333: 364 hospitals$333 – $440: 443 hospitals$333$440 – $581: 578 hospitals$581 – $767: 445 hospitals$581$767 – $1,013: 301 hospitals$1,013 – $1,338: 144 hospitals$1,013$1,338 – $1,767: 109 hospitals$1,338median $463price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,909 of 3,231 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$110$145164
$145$191141
$191$252220
$252$333364
$333$440443
$440$581578
$581$767445
$767$1,013301
$1,013$1,338144
$1,338$1,767109

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$463
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.3×

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 $463.

Alaska: median $752 across 17 hospitalsAK$752Maine: median $301 across 25 hospitalsME$301Vermont: median $682 across 12 hospitalsVT$682New Hampshire: median $442 across 22 hospitalsNH$442Washington: median $457 across 68 hospitalsWA$457Idaho: median $441 across 21 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $406 across 16 hospitalsMT$406North Dakota: median $423 across 30 hospitalsND$423Minnesota: median $366 across 98 hospitalsMN$366Illinois: median $673 across 120 hospitalsIL$673Wisconsin: median $485 across 107 hospitalsWI$485Michigan: median $495 across 85 hospitalsMI$495New York: median $278 across 111 hospitalsNY$278Massachusetts: median $507 across 50 hospitalsMA$507Oregon: median $434 across 43 hospitalsOR$434Nevada: median $651 across 20 hospitalsNV$651Wyoming: median $468 across 13 hospitalsWY$468South Dakota: median $722 across 28 hospitalsSD$722Iowa: median $473 across 81 hospitalsIA$473Indiana: median $458 across 93 hospitalsIN$458Ohio: median $543 across 137 hospitalsOH$543Pennsylvania: median $407 across 119 hospitalsPA$407New Jersey: median $142 across 57 hospitalsNJ$142Connecticut: median $329 across 22 hospitalsCT$329Rhode Island: median $278 across 10 hospitalsRI$278California: median $735 across 211 hospitalsCA$735Utah: median $577 across 41 hospitalsUT$577Colorado: median $477 across 64 hospitalsCO$477Nebraska: median $647 across 77 hospitalsNE$647Missouri: median $484 across 74 hospitalsMO$484Kentucky: median $591 across 64 hospitalsKY$591West Virginia: median $403 across 33 hospitalsWV$403Virginia: median $480 across 70 hospitalsVA$480Maryland: median $638 across 37 hospitalsMD$638Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $360 across 53 hospitalsAZ$360New Mexico: median $484 across 29 hospitalsNM$484Kansas: median $356 across 82 hospitalsKS$356Arkansas: median $97 across 35 hospitalsAR$97Tennessee: median $253 across 78 hospitalsTN$253North Carolina: median $396 across 92 hospitalsNC$396South Carolina: median $762 across 51 hospitalsSC$762Oklahoma: median $370 across 63 hospitalsOK$370Louisiana: median $249 across 51 hospitalsLA$249Mississippi: median $246 across 49 hospitalsMS$246Alabama: median $302 across 41 hospitalsAL$302Georgia: median $431 across 104 hospitalsGA$431Hawaii: median $445 across 16 hospitalsHI$445Texas: median $580 across 234 hospitalsTX$580Florida: median $748 across 171 hospitalsFL$748
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $463. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC51$762+64%$232 – $837
Alaska AK17$752+62%$374 – $985
Florida FL171$748+61%$261 – $2,722
California CA211$735+59%$374 – $1,392
South Dakota SD28$722+56%$496 – $985
Vermont VT12$682+47%$286 – $1,355
Illinois IL120$673+45%$355 – $1,056
Nevada NV20$651+41%$208 – $819
Nebraska NE77$647+40%$412 – $849
Maryland MD37$638+38%$420 – $798
Kentucky KY64$591+28%$225 – $872
Texas TX234$580+25%$283 – $1,704
Utah UT41$577+24%$545 – $641
Ohio OH137$543+17%$312 – $767
Massachusetts MA50$507+9%$238 – $905
Michigan MI85$495+7%$272 – $705
Wisconsin WI107$485+5%$284 – $620
New Mexico NM29$484+5%$341 – $653
Missouri MO74$484+4%$263 – $733
Virginia VA70$480+4%$274 – $919
Colorado CO64$477+3%$334 – $648
Iowa IA81$473+2%$339 – $646
Wyoming WY13$468+1%$203 – $770
Indiana IN93$458−1%$156 – $615
Washington WA68$457−1%$287 – $667
Hawaii HI16$445−4%$317 – $467
New Hampshire NH22$442−5%$357 – $939
Idaho ID21$441−5%$300 – $463
Oregon OR43$434−6%$226 – $519
Georgia GA104$431−7%$174 – $854
North Dakota ND30$423−9%$335 – $482
Pennsylvania PA119$407−12%$129 – $846
Montana MT16$406−12%$174 – $535
West Virginia WV33$403−13%$269 – $530
North Carolina NC92$396−15%$304 – $642
Oklahoma OK63$370−20%$244 – $541
Minnesota MN98$366−21%$263 – $520
Arizona AZ53$360−22%$179 – $1,634
Kansas KS82$356−23%$173 – $587
Connecticut CT22$329−29%$221 – $518
Alabama AL41$302−35%$165 – $448
Maine ME25$301−35%$162 – $544
New York NY111$278−40%$127 – $704
Rhode Island RI10$278−40%$163 – $454
Tennessee TN78$253−45%$172 – $447
Louisiana LA51$249−46%$141 – $442
Mississippi MS49$246−47%$137 – $377
New Jersey NJ57$142−69%$118 – $396
Arkansas AR35$97−79%$94 – $436
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 $463.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,327$474$230 – $876
Children’s35$576$352 – $988
Critical access860$447$260 – $699
Ownership
For-profit454$661$297 – $2,272
Government583$387$206 – $687
Non-profit2,185$468$251 – $762
System affiliation
Part of a system2,668$477$255 – $840
Independent563$396$203 – $704

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$764
Median cash price$463
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

2,212 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $496 and the average of the middle 60% is $513; most fall between $260 and $834.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,212 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
$174$300$496$762$1,107

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($174 vs $1,107).

Of the 2,447 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,212 gave a usable cash price; 130 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,231 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,560 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,231
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here213
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 — excluded115
Hospitals that filed this code3,560

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 Pregnant Uterus 14 Wk Transabdl 1/1st Gestat.

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, “Early pregnancy ultrasound, first baby (under 14 weeks) (CPT 76801) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76801-early-pregnancy-ultrasound-first-baby-under-14-weeks