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Procedure price report · Diagnostic ultrasound (echocardiogram) or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of heart

Follow-up ultrasound of the baby's heart in the womb

CPT 76826the billing code this page is about

A repeat or limited ultrasound study of a fetus's heart, done after an earlier full fetal heart exam.

Hospitals typically charge $527 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,111 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $573. Most fall between $273 and $1,007 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,111
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 1,111 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
$190$306$527$883$1,408

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($190 vs $1,408).

How the prices are spread

$114 – $152: 30 hospitals$114$152 – $203: 42 hospitals$203 – $270: 96 hospitals$203$270 – $361: 117 hospitals$361 – $481: 159 hospitals$361$481 – $642: 156 hospitals$642 – $857: 149 hospitals$642$857 – $1,143: 141 hospitals$1,143 – $1,525: 66 hospitals$1,143$1,525 – $2,034: 50 hospitals$1,525median $527price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,006 of 1,111 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$114$15230
$152$20342
$203$27096
$270$361117
$361$481159
$481$642156
$642$857149
$857$1,143141
$1,143$1,52566
$1,525$2,03450

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$527
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $527.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $833 across 24 hospitalsWA$833Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $145 across 22 hospitalsMN$145Illinois: median $835 across 45 hospitalsIL$835Wisconsin: median $443 across 41 hospitalsWI$443Michigan: median $771 across 40 hospitalsMI$771New York: median $390 across 46 hospitalsNY$390Massachusetts: median $897 across 13 hospitalsMA$897Oregon: median $625 across 23 hospitalsOR$625Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $538 across 19 hospitalsIA$538Indiana: median $339 across 29 hospitalsIN$339Ohio: median $481 across 63 hospitalsOH$481Pennsylvania: median $370 across 49 hospitalsPA$370New Jersey: median $309 across 37 hospitalsNJ$309Connecticut: median $494 across 11 hospitalsCT$494Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $756 across 93 hospitalsCA$756Utah: median $673 across 12 hospitalsUT$673Colorado: median $866 across 17 hospitalsCO$866Nebraska: median $417 across 11 hospitalsNE$417Missouri: median $504 across 22 hospitalsMO$504Kentucky: median $862 across 21 hospitalsKY$862West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $560 across 35 hospitalsVA$560Maryland: median $530 across 15 hospitalsMD$530Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $293 across 20 hospitalsAZ$293New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $218 across 11 hospitalsTN$218North Carolina: median $482 across 26 hospitalsNC$482South Carolina: median $584 across 24 hospitalsSC$584Oklahoma: median $363 across 16 hospitalsOK$363Louisiana: median $214 across 19 hospitalsLA$214Mississippi: median $361 across 12 hospitalsMS$361Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $396 across 42 hospitalsGA$396Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $767 across 88 hospitalsTX$767Florida: median $584 across 76 hospitalsFL$584
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $527. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA13$897+70%$477 – $1,177
Colorado CO17$866+64%$866 – $2,404
Kentucky KY21$862+64%$166 – $862
Illinois IL45$835+58%$194 – $1,014
Washington WA24$833+58%$547 – $949
Michigan MI40$771+46%$328 – $1,753
Texas TX88$767+46%$378 – $1,252
California CA93$756+43%$526 – $983
Utah UT12$673+28%$673 – $673
Oregon OR23$625+19%$118 – $986
Florida FL76$584+11%$423 – $1,355
South Carolina SC24$584+11%$473 – $584
Virginia VA35$560+6%$319 – $1,145
Iowa IA19$538+2%$227 – $860
Maryland MD15$530+1%$219 – $1,305
Missouri MO22$504−4%$367 – $996
Connecticut CT11$494−6%$435 – $1,156
North Carolina NC26$482−9%$355 – $541
Ohio OH63$481−9%$351 – $745
Wisconsin WI41$443−16%$222 – $1,847
Nebraska NE11$417−21%$371 – $500
Georgia GA42$396−25%$172 – $856
New York NY46$390−26%$286 – $747
Pennsylvania PA49$370−30%$264 – $875
Oklahoma OK16$363−31%$66 – $473
Mississippi MS12$361−31%$82 – $538
Indiana IN29$339−36%$210 – $663
New Jersey NJ37$309−41%$240 – $572
Arizona AZ20$293−44%$220 – $1,643
Tennessee TN11$218−59%$144 – $361
Louisiana LA19$214−59%$126 – $613
Minnesota MN22$145−72%$105 – $446
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $527.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care965$527$282 – $981
Children’s43$1,232$512 – $1,971
Critical access98$421$186 – $790
Ownership
For-profit117$617$305 – $1,643
Government123$482$268 – $907
Non-profit866$538$269 – $971
System affiliation
Part of a system1,003$538$271 – $1,007
Independent108$518$280 – $1,029

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$956
Median cash price$527
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

850 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $560 and the average of the middle 60% is $600; most fall between $300 and $1,038.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 850 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
$204$354$560$913$1,404

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($204 vs $1,404).

Of the 934 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 850 gave a usable cash price; 58 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,111 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,222 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,111
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded35
Hospitals that filed this code1,222

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 Diagnostic ultrasound (echocardiogram) or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Echo Fetal Cardiovasc W/WO M-Mode Repeat Std.

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, “Follow-up ultrasound of the baby's heart in the womb (CPT 76826) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76826-follow-up-ultrasound-of-the-baby-s-heart-in-the-womb