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Fetal well-being ultrasound without nonstress test

CPT 76819the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound scoring of fetal movement, breathing, tone, and amniotic fluid, done without heart-rate monitoring.

Hospitals typically charge $405 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,772 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $415. Most fall between $203 and $723 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,772
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 2,772 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
$127$238$405$630$1,083

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($127 vs $1,083).

How the prices are spread

$99 – $131: 156 hospitals$99$131 – $173: 138 hospitals$173 – $228: 223 hospitals$173$228 – $300: 324 hospitals$300 – $396: 364 hospitals$300$396 – $522: 464 hospitals$522 – $689: 377 hospitals$522$689 – $908: 206 hospitals$908 – $1,197: 168 hospitals$908$1,197 – $1,579: 84 hospitals$1,197median $405price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,504 of 2,772 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$99$131156
$131$173138
$173$228223
$228$300324
$300$396364
$396$522464
$522$689377
$689$908206
$908$1,197168
$1,197$1,57984

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$405
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.8×

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 $405.

Alaska: median $681 across 17 hospitalsAK$681Maine: median $241 across 22 hospitalsME$241Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $456 across 19 hospitalsNH$456Washington: median $435 across 61 hospitalsWA$435Idaho: median $419 across 20 hospitalsID$419Montana: median $372 across 13 hospitalsMT$372North Dakota: median $303 across 24 hospitalsND$303Minnesota: median $418 across 89 hospitalsMN$418Illinois: median $598 across 103 hospitalsIL$598Wisconsin: median $365 across 99 hospitalsWI$365Michigan: median $397 across 71 hospitalsMI$397New York: median $256 across 108 hospitalsNY$256Massachusetts: median $416 across 43 hospitalsMA$416Oregon: median $393 across 42 hospitalsOR$393Nevada: median $455 across 15 hospitalsNV$455Wyoming: median $561 across 11 hospitalsWY$561South Dakota: median $665 across 27 hospitalsSD$665Iowa: median $439 across 67 hospitalsIA$439Indiana: median $332 across 87 hospitalsIN$332Ohio: median $477 across 124 hospitalsOH$477Pennsylvania: median $386 across 108 hospitalsPA$386New Jersey: median $149 across 52 hospitalsNJ$149Connecticut: median $236 across 21 hospitalsCT$236Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $621 across 184 hospitalsCA$621Utah: median $365 across 39 hospitalsUT$365Colorado: median $433 across 60 hospitalsCO$433Nebraska: median $476 across 66 hospitalsNE$476Missouri: median $392 across 63 hospitalsMO$392Kentucky: median $427 across 48 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $321 across 30 hospitalsWV$321Virginia: median $379 across 57 hospitalsVA$379Maryland: median $448 across 33 hospitalsMD$448Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $418 across 38 hospitalsAZ$418New Mexico: median $312 across 24 hospitalsNM$312Kansas: median $326 across 63 hospitalsKS$326Arkansas: median $125 across 22 hospitalsAR$125Tennessee: median $216 across 60 hospitalsTN$216North Carolina: median $336 across 86 hospitalsNC$336South Carolina: median $570 across 48 hospitalsSC$570Oklahoma: median $294 across 50 hospitalsOK$294Louisiana: median $203 across 41 hospitalsLA$203Mississippi: median $256 across 42 hospitalsMS$256Alabama: median $360 across 33 hospitalsAL$360Georgia: median $576 across 75 hospitalsGA$576Hawaii: median $317 across 15 hospitalsHI$317Texas: median $429 across 192 hospitalsTX$429Florida: median $715 across 137 hospitalsFL$715
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $405. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL137$715+77%$376 – $1,633
Alaska AK17$681+68%$425 – $1,076
South Dakota SD27$665+64%$542 – $842
California CA184$621+53%$336 – $1,115
Illinois IL103$598+48%$206 – $951
Georgia GA75$576+42%$100 – $947
South Carolina SC48$570+41%$226 – $637
Wyoming WY11$561+39%$363 – $731
Ohio OH124$477+18%$241 – $671
Nebraska NE66$476+18%$229 – $543
New Hampshire NH19$456+13%$315 – $1,248
Nevada NV15$455+12%$229 – $624
Maryland MD33$448+11%$339 – $590
Iowa IA67$439+8%$247 – $588
Washington WA61$435+7%$287 – $629
Colorado CO60$433+7%$275 – $682
Texas TX192$429+6%$258 – $1,139
Kentucky KY48$427+5%$186 – $862
Idaho ID20$419+3%$304 – $449
Minnesota MN89$418+3%$252 – $495
Arizona AZ38$418+3%$219 – $2,054
Massachusetts MA43$416+3%$280 – $693
Michigan MI71$397−2%$180 – $722
Oregon OR42$393−3%$213 – $528
Missouri MO63$392−3%$195 – $614
Pennsylvania PA108$386−5%$124 – $748
Virginia VA57$379−7%$271 – $737
Montana MT13$372−8%$174 – $408
Utah UT39$365−10%$311 – $459
Wisconsin WI99$365−10%$251 – $552
Alabama AL33$360−11%$167 – $1,175
North Carolina NC86$336−17%$242 – $510
Indiana IN87$332−18%$162 – $604
Kansas KS63$326−19%$170 – $554
West Virginia WV30$321−21%$128 – $447
Hawaii HI15$317−22%$94 – $464
New Mexico NM24$312−23%$200 – $704
North Dakota ND24$303−25%$228 – $454
Oklahoma OK50$294−27%$219 – $458
Mississippi MS42$256−37%$133 – $407
New York NY108$256−37%$131 – $660
Maine ME22$241−40%$148 – $617
Connecticut CT21$236−42%$184 – $518
Tennessee TN60$216−47%$86 – $318
Louisiana LA41$203−50%$112 – $402
New Jersey NJ52$149−63%$125 – $403
Arkansas AR22$125−69%$97 – $300
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not 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 $405.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,086$403$194 – $805
Children’s28$498$286 – $872
Critical access650$405$225 – $615
Ownership
For-profit363$577$227 – $1,755
Government458$360$186 – $613
Non-profit1,943$402$207 – $670
System affiliation
Part of a system2,328$410$208 – $746
Independent444$364$194 – $643

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$675
Median cash price$405
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,931 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $421 and the average of the middle 60% is $439; most fall between $228 and $736.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,931 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
$146$256$421$652$1,030

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($146 vs $1,030).

Of the 2,128 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,931 gave a usable cash price; 111 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,772 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,050 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,772
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here185
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 — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code3,050

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 Fetal Biophysical Profile W/O Non-Stress Testing|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, “Fetal well-being ultrasound without nonstress test (CPT 76819) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76819-fetal-well-being-ultrasound-without-nonstress-test