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

Repeat Doppler study of the baby's heart in the womb

CPT 76828the billing code this page is about

A follow-up Doppler blood flow study of a fetus's heart, done after an earlier complete fetal heart Doppler exam.

Hospitals typically charge $277 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,149 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $285. Most fall between $127 and $522 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,149
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,149 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
$93$146$277$454$755

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($93 vs $755).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $91: 51 hospitals$69$91 – $120: 86 hospitals$120 – $159: 141 hospitals$120$159 – $210: 95 hospitals$210 – $277: 144 hospitals$210$277 – $366: 168 hospitals$366 – $483: 149 hospitals$366$483 – $639: 108 hospitals$639 – $844: 69 hospitals$639$844 – $1,115: 24 hospitals$844median $277price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,035 of 1,149 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$9151
$91$12086
$120$159141
$159$21095
$210$277144
$277$366168
$366$483149
$483$639108
$639$84469
$844$1,11524

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$277
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $277.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 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 $259 across 23 hospitalsWA$259Idaho: median $410 across 10 hospitalsID$410Montana: 2 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 $190 across 21 hospitalsMN$190Illinois: median $388 across 44 hospitalsIL$388Wisconsin: median $278 across 47 hospitalsWI$278Michigan: median $367 across 38 hospitalsMI$367New York: median $131 across 44 hospitalsNY$131Massachusetts: median $377 across 21 hospitalsMA$377Oregon: median $200 across 22 hospitalsOR$200Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $246 across 20 hospitalsIA$246Indiana: median $162 across 30 hospitalsIN$162Ohio: median $211 across 68 hospitalsOH$211Pennsylvania: median $180 across 59 hospitalsPA$180New Jersey: median $125 across 43 hospitalsNJ$125Connecticut: median $215 across 12 hospitalsCT$215Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $420 across 93 hospitalsCA$420Utah: median $673 across 15 hospitalsUT$673Colorado: median $664 across 22 hospitalsCO$664Nebraska: median $89 across 12 hospitalsNE$89Missouri: median $323 across 21 hospitalsMO$323Kentucky: median $169 across 22 hospitalsKY$169West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $152 across 35 hospitalsVA$152Maryland: median $224 across 17 hospitalsMD$224Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $250 across 19 hospitalsAZ$250New Mexico: 3 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 $102 across 15 hospitalsTN$102North Carolina: median $241 across 33 hospitalsNC$241South Carolina: median $273 across 25 hospitalsSC$273Oklahoma: median $175 across 14 hospitalsOK$175Louisiana: median $139 across 23 hospitalsLA$139Mississippi: median $284 across 14 hospitalsMS$284Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $143 across 38 hospitalsGA$143Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $318 across 82 hospitalsTX$318Florida: median $568 across 76 hospitalsFL$568
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $277. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT15$673+142%$222 – $673
Colorado CO22$664+139%$454 – $1,843
Florida FL76$568+105%$274 – $791
California CA93$420+51%$281 – $454
Idaho ID10$410+48%$285 – $532
Illinois IL44$388+40%$167 – $438
Massachusetts MA21$377+36%$201 – $538
Michigan MI38$367+32%$144 – $801
Missouri MO21$323+17%$223 – $467
Texas TX82$318+15%$220 – $604
Mississippi MS14$284+2%$52 – $343
Wisconsin WI47$2780%$159 – $303
South Carolina SC25$273−2%$273 – $380
Washington WA23$259−7%$250 – $365
Arizona AZ19$250−10%$128 – $1,278
Iowa IA20$246−11%$69 – $281
North Carolina NC33$241−13%$178 – $279
Maryland MD17$224−19%$140 – $295
Connecticut CT12$215−22%$149 – $518
Ohio OH68$211−24%$140 – $521
Oregon OR22$200−28%$79 – $285
Minnesota MN21$190−32%$179 – $289
Pennsylvania PA59$180−35%$106 – $500
Oklahoma OK14$175−37%$39 – $301
Kentucky KY22$169−39%$96 – $427
Indiana IN30$162−42%$83 – $372
Virginia VA35$152−45%$133 – $545
Georgia GA38$143−48%$143 – $546
Louisiana LA23$139−50%$49 – $225
New York NY44$131−53%$107 – $345
New Jersey NJ43$125−55%$107 – $380
Tennessee TN15$102−63%$102 – $131
Nebraska NE12$89−68%$80 – $115
Hawaii HI9not 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
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $277.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,004$278$127 – $502
Children’s42$466$243 – $1,082
Critical access99$240$81 – $454
Ownership
For-profit114$333$143 – $923
Government123$244$126 – $454
Non-profit908$273$127 – $502
System affiliation
Part of a system1,042$278$131 – $521
Independent107$253$119 – $555

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$502
Median cash price$277
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

860 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $301 and the average of the middle 60% is $317; most fall between $147 and $546.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 860 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$169$301$496$755

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($102 vs $755).

Of the 934 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 860 gave a usable cash price; 51 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,149 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,250 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,149
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code1,250

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 Puls Spectral F/U/Repeat|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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Repeat Doppler study of the baby's heart in the womb (CPT 76828) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76828-repeat-doppler-study-of-the-baby-s-heart-in-the-womb