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

Pregnancy ultrasound through the vagina

CPT 76817the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound of the pregnant uterus using a probe placed in the vagina.

Hospitals typically charge $420 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,208 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $430. Most fall between $208 and $746 (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
$133$241$420$648$1,088

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($133 vs $1,088).

How the prices are spread

$102 – $133: 163 hospitals$102$133 – $175: 166 hospitals$175 – $228: 252 hospitals$175$228 – $299: 300 hospitals$299 – $391: 411 hospitals$299$391 – $511: 602 hospitals$511 – $669: 387 hospitals$511$669 – $875: 301 hospitals$875 – $1,145: 179 hospitals$875$1,145 – $1,499: 127 hospitals$1,145median $420price 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
$102$133163
$133$175166
$175$228252
$228$299300
$299$391411
$391$511602
$511$669387
$669$875301
$875$1,145179
$1,145$1,499127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$420
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 $420.

Alaska: median $496 across 17 hospitalsAK$496Maine: median $216 across 25 hospitalsME$216Vermont: median $521 across 12 hospitalsVT$521New Hampshire: median $425 across 22 hospitalsNH$425Washington: median $369 across 67 hospitalsWA$369Idaho: median $429 across 21 hospitalsID$429Montana: median $328 across 16 hospitalsMT$328North Dakota: median $329 across 31 hospitalsND$329Minnesota: median $298 across 99 hospitalsMN$298Illinois: median $510 across 122 hospitalsIL$510Wisconsin: median $409 across 106 hospitalsWI$409Michigan: median $361 across 78 hospitalsMI$361New York: median $241 across 111 hospitalsNY$241Massachusetts: median $508 across 51 hospitalsMA$508Oregon: median $321 across 44 hospitalsOR$321Nevada: median $662 across 18 hospitalsNV$662Wyoming: median $337 across 13 hospitalsWY$337South Dakota: median $663 across 31 hospitalsSD$663Iowa: median $440 across 84 hospitalsIA$440Indiana: median $341 across 95 hospitalsIN$341Ohio: median $480 across 137 hospitalsOH$480Pennsylvania: median $447 across 111 hospitalsPA$447New Jersey: median $146 across 56 hospitalsNJ$146Connecticut: median $175 across 22 hospitalsCT$175Rhode Island: median $302 across 10 hospitalsRI$302California: median $598 across 211 hospitalsCA$598Utah: median $466 across 42 hospitalsUT$466Colorado: median $433 across 63 hospitalsCO$433Nebraska: median $525 across 76 hospitalsNE$525Missouri: median $407 across 72 hospitalsMO$407Kentucky: median $448 across 63 hospitalsKY$448West Virginia: median $271 across 36 hospitalsWV$271Virginia: median $424 across 70 hospitalsVA$424Maryland: median $512 across 36 hospitalsMD$512Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $349 across 52 hospitalsAZ$349New Mexico: median $337 across 29 hospitalsNM$337Kansas: median $346 across 78 hospitalsKS$346Arkansas: median $157 across 36 hospitalsAR$157Tennessee: median $236 across 78 hospitalsTN$236North Carolina: median $411 across 93 hospitalsNC$411South Carolina: median $689 across 52 hospitalsSC$689Oklahoma: median $335 across 57 hospitalsOK$335Louisiana: median $206 across 50 hospitalsLA$206Mississippi: median $203 across 49 hospitalsMS$203Alabama: median $280 across 42 hospitalsAL$280Georgia: median $386 across 105 hospitalsGA$386Hawaii: median $370 across 16 hospitalsHI$370Texas: median $509 across 228 hospitalsTX$509Florida: median $912 across 169 hospitalsFL$912
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $420. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL169$912+117%$336 – $1,841
South Carolina SC52$689+64%$225 – $822
South Dakota SD31$663+58%$512 – $871
Nevada NV18$662+58%$224 – $861
California CA211$598+42%$344 – $1,298
Nebraska NE76$525+25%$399 – $691
Vermont VT12$521+24%$205 – $925
Maryland MD36$512+22%$363 – $619
Illinois IL122$510+21%$250 – $774
Texas TX228$509+21%$300 – $1,143
Massachusetts MA51$508+21%$297 – $759
Alaska AK17$496+18%$317 – $752
Ohio OH137$480+14%$285 – $697
Utah UT42$466+11%$409 – $548
Kentucky KY63$448+7%$290 – $862
Pennsylvania PA111$447+7%$154 – $979
Iowa IA84$440+5%$300 – $585
Colorado CO63$433+3%$312 – $633
Idaho ID21$429+2%$255 – $460
New Hampshire NH22$425+1%$287 – $1,009
Virginia VA70$424+1%$330 – $887
North Carolina NC93$411−2%$281 – $787
Wisconsin WI106$409−3%$254 – $482
Missouri MO72$407−3%$221 – $638
Georgia GA105$386−8%$137 – $899
Hawaii HI16$370−12%$220 – $493
Washington WA67$369−12%$256 – $542
Michigan MI78$361−14%$217 – $596
Arizona AZ52$349−17%$198 – $1,463
Kansas KS78$346−18%$166 – $540
Indiana IN95$341−19%$132 – $488
Wyoming WY13$337−20%$125 – $594
New Mexico NM29$337−20%$225 – $570
Oklahoma OK57$335−20%$209 – $522
North Dakota ND31$329−22%$289 – $394
Montana MT16$328−22%$115 – $429
Oregon OR44$321−24%$180 – $411
Rhode Island RI10$302−28%$94 – $477
Minnesota MN99$298−29%$189 – $452
Alabama AL42$280−33%$125 – $464
West Virginia WV36$271−36%$125 – $477
New York NY111$241−43%$126 – $670
Tennessee TN78$236−44%$102 – $504
Maine ME25$216−49%$104 – $481
Louisiana LA50$206−51%$116 – $361
Mississippi MS49$203−52%$107 – $313
Connecticut CT22$175−58%$138 – $405
Arkansas AR36$157−63%$153 – $356
New Jersey NJ56$146−65%$125 – $396
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 $420.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,313$427$199 – $815
Children’s34$513$303 – $930
Critical access851$401$220 – $596
Ownership
For-profit457$575$247 – $1,709
Government569$384$184 – $594
Non-profit2,172$415$213 – $703
System affiliation
Part of a system2,655$433$216 – $772
Independent553$354$185 – $614

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$700
Median cash price$420
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

2,192 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $448 and the average of the middle 60% is $458; most fall between $231 and $763.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,192 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
$150$272$448$679$1,052

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($150 vs $1,052).

Of the 2,433 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,192 gave a usable cash price; 139 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 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 3,544 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 here219
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,544

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 Preg Uterus Real Time W/Image Dcmtn Transvag|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, “Pregnancy ultrasound through the vagina (CPT 76817) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76817-pregnancy-ultrasound-through-the-vagina