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

Limited pregnancy ultrasound

CPT 76815the billing code this page is about

Quick ultrasound during pregnancy to check one or more specific things, such as heartbeat, fetal position, or amniotic fluid; billed once per visit.

Hospitals typically charge $362 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,208 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $370. Most fall between $180 and $620 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,208
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 3,208 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
$118$206$362$550$921

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $921).

How the prices are spread

$89 – $116: 149 hospitals$89$116 – $153: 199 hospitals$153 – $200: 255 hospitals$153$200 – $262: 312 hospitals$262 – $344: 430 hospitals$262$344 – $450: 524 hospitals$450 – $590: 471 hospitals$450$590 – $774: 287 hospitals$774 – $1,014: 141 hospitals$774$1,014 – $1,329: 120 hospitals$1,014median $362price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,888 of 3,208 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$89$116149
$116$153199
$153$200255
$200$262312
$262$344430
$344$450524
$450$590471
$590$774287
$774$1,014141
$1,014$1,329120

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$362
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 $362.

Alaska: median $417 across 17 hospitalsAK$417Maine: median $167 across 25 hospitalsME$167Vermont: median $417 across 12 hospitalsVT$417New Hampshire: median $342 across 20 hospitalsNH$342Washington: median $338 across 67 hospitalsWA$338Idaho: median $305 across 20 hospitalsID$305Montana: median $263 across 15 hospitalsMT$263North Dakota: median $319 across 29 hospitalsND$319Minnesota: median $303 across 98 hospitalsMN$303Illinois: median $527 across 121 hospitalsIL$527Wisconsin: median $376 across 106 hospitalsWI$376Michigan: median $318 across 84 hospitalsMI$318New York: median $217 across 111 hospitalsNY$217Massachusetts: median $422 across 51 hospitalsMA$422Oregon: median $235 across 44 hospitalsOR$235Nevada: median $588 across 19 hospitalsNV$588Wyoming: median $394 across 13 hospitalsWY$394South Dakota: median $542 across 27 hospitalsSD$542Iowa: median $339 across 85 hospitalsIA$339Indiana: median $304 across 94 hospitalsIN$304Ohio: median $477 across 137 hospitalsOH$477Pennsylvania: median $394 across 111 hospitalsPA$394New Jersey: median $173 across 57 hospitalsNJ$173Connecticut: median $159 across 22 hospitalsCT$159Rhode Island: median $177 across 10 hospitalsRI$177California: median $555 across 209 hospitalsCA$555Utah: median $353 across 42 hospitalsUT$353Colorado: median $392 across 63 hospitalsCO$392Nebraska: median $432 across 76 hospitalsNE$432Missouri: median $327 across 73 hospitalsMO$327Kentucky: median $481 across 67 hospitalsKY$481West Virginia: median $307 across 39 hospitalsWV$307Virginia: median $451 across 70 hospitalsVA$451Maryland: median $426 across 37 hospitalsMD$426Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $308 across 53 hospitalsAZ$308New Mexico: median $297 across 28 hospitalsNM$297Kansas: median $276 across 77 hospitalsKS$276Arkansas: median $127 across 34 hospitalsAR$127Tennessee: median $153 across 77 hospitalsTN$153North Carolina: median $319 across 92 hospitalsNC$319South Carolina: median $452 across 52 hospitalsSC$452Oklahoma: median $311 across 60 hospitalsOK$311Louisiana: median $187 across 50 hospitalsLA$187Mississippi: median $189 across 48 hospitalsMS$189Alabama: median $202 across 40 hospitalsAL$202Georgia: median $286 across 103 hospitalsGA$286Hawaii: median $265 across 16 hospitalsHI$265Texas: median $459 across 232 hospitalsTX$459Florida: median $633 across 169 hospitalsFL$633
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $362. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL169$633+75%$299 – $1,928
Nevada NV19$588+63%$135 – $860
California CA209$555+53%$286 – $1,194
South Dakota SD27$542+50%$409 – $741
Illinois IL121$527+46%$266 – $737
Kentucky KY67$481+33%$217 – $705
Ohio OH137$477+32%$257 – $570
Texas TX232$459+27%$250 – $974
South Carolina SC52$452+25%$188 – $589
Virginia VA70$451+25%$281 – $830
Nebraska NE76$432+19%$272 – $527
Maryland MD37$426+18%$283 – $546
Massachusetts MA51$422+17%$259 – $780
Alaska AK17$417+15%$286 – $779
Vermont VT12$417+15%$71 – $758
Wyoming WY13$394+9%$112 – $508
Pennsylvania PA111$394+9%$154 – $803
Colorado CO63$392+8%$295 – $577
Wisconsin WI106$376+4%$189 – $449
Utah UT42$353−2%$300 – $409
New Hampshire NH20$342−6%$237 – $542
Iowa IA85$339−6%$210 – $490
Washington WA67$338−6%$208 – $478
Missouri MO73$327−10%$181 – $482
North Dakota ND29$319−12%$244 – $410
North Carolina NC92$319−12%$255 – $550
Michigan MI84$318−12%$186 – $495
Oklahoma OK60$311−14%$236 – $440
Arizona AZ53$308−15%$174 – $1,500
West Virginia WV39$307−15%$243 – $445
Idaho ID20$305−16%$245 – $441
Indiana IN94$304−16%$122 – $503
Minnesota MN98$303−16%$193 – $404
New Mexico NM28$297−18%$206 – $636
Georgia GA103$286−21%$134 – $922
Kansas KS77$276−24%$158 – $434
Hawaii HI16$265−27%$131 – $448
Montana MT15$263−27%$98 – $375
Oregon OR44$235−35%$157 – $408
New York NY111$217−40%$126 – $543
Alabama AL40$202−44%$123 – $371
Mississippi MS48$189−48%$109 – $337
Louisiana LA50$187−48%$104 – $291
Rhode Island RI10$177−51%$81 – $409
New Jersey NJ57$173−52%$125 – $395
Maine ME25$167−54%$98 – $246
Connecticut CT22$159−56%$140 – $386
Tennessee TN77$153−58%$87 – $342
Arkansas AR34$127−65%$109 – $311
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 $362.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,328$370$177 – $673
Children’s40$513$282 – $885
Critical access830$344$181 – $521
Ownership
For-profit459$498$209 – $1,500
Government565$301$141 – $497
Non-profit2,174$361$185 – $588
System affiliation
Part of a system2,654$378$189 – $643
Independent554$296$157 – $522

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$594
Median cash price$362
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

2,209 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $385 and the average of the middle 60% is $388; most fall between $198 and $613.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,209 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$230$385$570$881

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $881).

Of the 2,452 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,209 gave a usable cash price; 143 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,208 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,553 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,208
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here229
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 code3,553

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 Limited 1/> Fetuses.

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 pregnancy ultrasound (CPT 76815) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76815-limited-pregnancy-ultrasound