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

Doppler study of the baby's heart in the womb

CPT 76827the billing code this page is about

Doppler measurement of blood flow within a fetus's heart, performed as a complete study.

Hospitals typically charge $380 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,344 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $404. Most fall between $151 and $749 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,344
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 1,344 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
$113$199$380$668$988

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($113 vs $988).

How the prices are spread

$81 – $107: 68 hospitals$81$107 – $142: 109 hospitals$142 – $188: 84 hospitals$142$188 – $248: 112 hospitals$248 – $329: 151 hospitals$248$329 – $435: 189 hospitals$435 – $576: 149 hospitals$435$576 – $763: 160 hospitals$763 – $1,010: 137 hospitals$763$1,010 – $1,337: 58 hospitals$1,010median $380price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,217 of 1,344 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$81$10768
$107$142109
$142$18884
$188$248112
$248$329151
$329$435189
$435$576149
$576$763160
$763$1,010137
$1,010$1,33758

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$380
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.6×

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 $380.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $341 across 24 hospitalsWA$341Idaho: median $486 across 13 hospitalsID$486Montana: 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 $236 across 32 hospitalsMN$236Illinois: median $580 across 44 hospitalsIL$580Wisconsin: median $303 across 56 hospitalsWI$303Michigan: median $560 across 41 hospitalsMI$560New York: median $254 across 52 hospitalsNY$254Massachusetts: median $419 across 21 hospitalsMA$419Oregon: median $292 across 30 hospitalsOR$292Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $246 across 23 hospitalsIA$246Indiana: median $277 across 38 hospitalsIN$277Ohio: median $477 across 75 hospitalsOH$477Pennsylvania: median $425 across 69 hospitalsPA$425New Jersey: median $155 across 44 hospitalsNJ$155Connecticut: median $299 across 15 hospitalsCT$299Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $745 across 114 hospitalsCA$745Utah: median $614 across 12 hospitalsUT$614Colorado: median $667 across 33 hospitalsCO$667Nebraska: median $131 across 13 hospitalsNE$131Missouri: median $432 across 26 hospitalsMO$432Kentucky: median $337 across 21 hospitalsKY$337West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $229 across 39 hospitalsVA$229Maryland: median $414 across 19 hospitalsMD$414Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $333 across 24 hospitalsAZ$333New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $347 across 10 hospitalsKS$347Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $102 across 24 hospitalsTN$102North Carolina: median $357 across 33 hospitalsNC$357South Carolina: median $312 across 26 hospitalsSC$312Oklahoma: median $175 across 15 hospitalsOK$175Louisiana: median $107 across 20 hospitalsLA$107Mississippi: median $217 across 19 hospitalsMS$217Alabama: median $271 across 12 hospitalsAL$271Georgia: median $258 across 37 hospitalsGA$258Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $431 across 102 hospitalsTX$431Florida: median $707 across 88 hospitalsFL$707
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $380. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA114$745+96%$318 – $866
Florida FL88$707+86%$235 – $897
Colorado CO33$667+75%$189 – $1,319
Utah UT12$614+61%$614 – $614
Illinois IL44$580+52%$251 – $988
Michigan MI41$560+47%$144 – $796
Idaho ID13$486+28%$333 – $532
Ohio OH75$477+25%$213 – $651
Missouri MO26$432+13%$332 – $580
Texas TX102$431+13%$276 – $944
Pennsylvania PA69$425+12%$124 – $854
Massachusetts MA21$419+10%$238 – $865
Maryland MD19$414+9%$177 – $548
North Carolina NC33$357−6%$321 – $463
Kansas KS10$347−9%$98 – $1,671
Washington WA24$341−10%$259 – $630
Kentucky KY21$337−11%$96 – $421
Arizona AZ24$333−12%$246 – $1,337
South Carolina SC26$312−18%$312 – $719
Wisconsin WI56$303−20%$233 – $523
Connecticut CT15$299−21%$133 – $490
Oregon OR30$292−23%$81 – $486
Indiana IN38$277−27%$122 – $431
Alabama AL12$271−29%$127 – $282
Georgia GA37$258−32%$172 – $895
New York NY52$254−33%$126 – $597
Iowa IA23$246−35%$127 – $566
Minnesota MN32$236−38%$223 – $605
Virginia VA39$229−40%$151 – $1,165
Mississippi MS19$217−43%$66 – $331
Oklahoma OK15$175−54%$46 – $203
New Jersey NJ44$155−59%$123 – $732
Nebraska NE13$131−66%$126 – $185
Louisiana LA20$107−72%$55 – $235
Tennessee TN24$102−73%$93 – $172
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not 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 $380.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,155$388$151 – $755
Children’s45$624$333 – $1,087
Critical access139$301$162 – $532
Ownership
For-profit142$453$172 – $1,337
Government157$318$127 – $715
Non-profit1,040$390$154 – $745
System affiliation
Part of a system1,215$390$152 – $749
Independent129$326$139 – $725

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$674
Median cash price$380
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

1,002 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $427 and the average of the middle 60% is $438; most fall between $189 and $776.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,002 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
$124$224$427$708$985

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $985).

Of the 1,083 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,002 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,344 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (34%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,468 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,344
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here86
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 — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,468

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 Doppler Echo Fetal Spectral Display Complete|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, “Doppler study of the baby's heart in the womb (CPT 76827) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76827-doppler-study-of-the-baby-s-heart-in-the-womb