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

Blood flow ultrasound of the umbilical cord artery

CPT 76820the billing code this page is about

Doppler ultrasound that measures blood flow speed in the umbilical artery of the fetus.

Hospitals typically charge $286 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,125 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $293. Most fall between $141 and $494 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,125
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,125 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
$102$162$286$438$754

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($102 vs $754).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $91: 70 hospitals$69$91 – $120: 127 hospitals$120 – $157: 205 hospitals$120$157 – $206: 229 hospitals$206 – $271: 270 hospitals$206$271 – $356: 337 hospitals$356 – $467: 295 hospitals$356$467 – $613: 171 hospitals$613 – $805: 137 hospitals$613$805 – $1,057: 72 hospitals$805median $286price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,913 of 2,125 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$9170
$91$120127
$120$157205
$157$206229
$206$271270
$271$356337
$356$467295
$467$613171
$613$805137
$805$1,05772

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$286
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.7×

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 $286.

Alaska: median $417 across 13 hospitalsAK$417Maine: median $160 across 16 hospitalsME$160Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $386 across 15 hospitalsNH$386Washington: median $269 across 55 hospitalsWA$269Idaho: median $382 across 15 hospitalsID$382Montana: median $162 across 10 hospitalsMT$162North Dakota: median $132 across 20 hospitalsND$132Minnesota: median $224 across 78 hospitalsMN$224Illinois: median $355 across 83 hospitalsIL$355Wisconsin: median $285 across 83 hospitalsWI$285Michigan: median $276 across 64 hospitalsMI$276New York: median $254 across 82 hospitalsNY$254Massachusetts: median $368 across 42 hospitalsMA$368Oregon: median $324 across 37 hospitalsOR$324Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $406 across 20 hospitalsSD$406Iowa: median $239 across 44 hospitalsIA$239Indiana: median $175 across 68 hospitalsIN$175Ohio: median $330 across 96 hospitalsOH$330Pennsylvania: median $249 across 90 hospitalsPA$249New Jersey: median $125 across 47 hospitalsNJ$125Connecticut: median $244 across 15 hospitalsCT$244Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $398 across 149 hospitalsCA$398Utah: median $382 across 34 hospitalsUT$382Colorado: median $334 across 51 hospitalsCO$334Nebraska: median $228 across 30 hospitalsNE$228Missouri: median $271 across 47 hospitalsMO$271Kentucky: median $427 across 27 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $195 across 22 hospitalsWV$195Virginia: median $378 across 51 hospitalsVA$378Maryland: median $181 across 26 hospitalsMD$181Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $161 across 36 hospitalsAZ$161New Mexico: median $200 across 11 hospitalsNM$200Kansas: median $221 across 27 hospitalsKS$221Arkansas: median $113 across 13 hospitalsAR$113Tennessee: median $109 across 41 hospitalsTN$109North Carolina: median $247 across 66 hospitalsNC$247South Carolina: median $363 across 42 hospitalsSC$363Oklahoma: median $292 across 35 hospitalsOK$292Louisiana: median $151 across 31 hospitalsLA$151Mississippi: median $170 across 26 hospitalsMS$170Alabama: median $181 across 19 hospitalsAL$181Georgia: median $319 across 67 hospitalsGA$319Hawaii: median $336 across 14 hospitalsHI$336Texas: median $340 across 133 hospitalsTX$340Florida: median $541 across 103 hospitalsFL$541
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $286. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL103$541+89%$245 – $1,629
Kentucky KY27$427+50%$162 – $438
Alaska AK13$417+46%$311 – $775
South Dakota SD20$406+42%$208 – $424
California CA149$398+39%$203 – $699
New Hampshire NH15$386+35%$209 – $760
Idaho ID15$382+34%$87 – $441
Utah UT34$382+34%$334 – $477
Virginia VA51$378+32%$232 – $633
Massachusetts MA42$368+29%$233 – $541
South Carolina SC42$363+27%$298 – $473
Illinois IL83$355+24%$165 – $851
Texas TX133$340+19%$160 – $649
Hawaii HI14$336+18%$317 – $441
Colorado CO51$334+17%$189 – $561
Ohio OH96$330+15%$186 – $561
Oregon OR37$324+13%$173 – $505
Georgia GA67$319+12%$98 – $478
Oklahoma OK35$292+2%$169 – $352
Wisconsin WI83$2850%$178 – $357
Michigan MI64$276−4%$144 – $586
Missouri MO47$271−5%$137 – $415
Washington WA55$269−6%$163 – $421
New York NY82$254−11%$126 – $457
Pennsylvania PA90$249−13%$121 – $635
North Carolina NC66$247−13%$179 – $391
Connecticut CT15$244−14%$84 – $322
Iowa IA44$239−16%$162 – $330
Nebraska NE30$228−20%$126 – $332
Minnesota MN78$224−21%$161 – $319
Kansas KS27$221−23%$110 – $779
New Mexico NM11$200−30%$130 – $302
West Virginia WV22$195−32%$43 – $403
Alabama AL19$181−37%$127 – $270
Maryland MD26$181−37%$139 – $230
Indiana IN68$175−39%$106 – $384
Mississippi MS26$170−40%$63 – $213
Montana MT10$162−43%$95 – $314
Arizona AZ36$161−43%$128 – $665
Maine ME16$160−44%$76 – $332
Louisiana LA31$151−47%$68 – $332
North Dakota ND20$132−54%$104 – $277
New Jersey NJ47$125−56%$115 – $147
Arkansas AR13$113−60%$84 – $280
Tennessee TN41$109−62%$73 – $267
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $286.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,683$294$140 – $557
Children’s36$429$221 – $671
Critical access398$246$139 – $395
Ownership
For-profit248$421$181 – $999
Government312$252$128 – $417
Non-profit1,557$284$142 – $477
System affiliation
Part of a system1,827$292$144 – $499
Independent298$247$129 – $466

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$495
Median cash price$286
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

1,543 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $300 and the average of the middle 60% is $305; most fall between $151 and $494.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,543 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
$102$175$300$450$699

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($102 vs $699).

Of the 1,692 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,543 gave a usable cash price; 86 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,125 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,345 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,125
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here146
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 — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code2,345

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 Doppler Velocimetry Fetal Umbilical Artery|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, “Blood flow ultrasound of the umbilical cord artery (CPT 76820) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76820-blood-flow-ultrasound-of-the-umbilical-cord-artery