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

Complete pelvic ultrasound through the abdomen

CPT 76856the billing code this page is about

Full ultrasound examination of the pelvic organs done through the lower abdominal wall, for non-pregnancy reasons.

Hospitals typically charge $549 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,343 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $574. Most fall between $271 and $974 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,343
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 3,343 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
$169$319$549$861$1,509

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($169 vs $1,509).

How the prices are spread

$120 – $160: 139 hospitals$120$160 – $214: 143 hospitals$214 – $286: 273 hospitals$214$286 – $382: 306 hospitals$382 – $511: 479 hospitals$382$511 – $682: 578 hospitals$682 – $912: 497 hospitals$682$912 – $1,218: 312 hospitals$1,218 – $1,626: 178 hospitals$1,218$1,626 – $2,173: 104 hospitals$1,626median $549price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,009 of 3,343 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$120$160139
$160$214143
$214$286273
$286$382306
$382$511479
$511$682578
$682$912497
$912$1,218312
$1,218$1,626178
$1,626$2,173104

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$549
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.1×

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 $549.

Alaska: median $925 across 17 hospitalsAK$925Maine: median $365 across 25 hospitalsME$365Vermont: median $654 across 12 hospitalsVT$654New Hampshire: median $511 across 22 hospitalsNH$511Washington: median $530 across 69 hospitalsWA$530Idaho: median $459 across 22 hospitalsID$459Montana: median $372 across 16 hospitalsMT$372North Dakota: median $443 across 34 hospitalsND$443Minnesota: median $442 across 100 hospitalsMN$442Illinois: median $792 across 123 hospitalsIL$792Wisconsin: median $524 across 110 hospitalsWI$524Michigan: median $509 across 86 hospitalsMI$509New York: median $294 across 114 hospitalsNY$294Massachusetts: median $640 across 52 hospitalsMA$640Oregon: median $485 across 46 hospitalsOR$485Nevada: median $718 across 21 hospitalsNV$718Wyoming: median $614 across 13 hospitalsWY$614South Dakota: median $1,013 across 41 hospitalsSD$1,013Iowa: median $541 across 87 hospitalsIA$541Indiana: median $434 across 96 hospitalsIN$434Ohio: median $477 across 139 hospitalsOH$477Pennsylvania: median $490 across 113 hospitalsPA$490New Jersey: median $214 across 58 hospitalsNJ$214Connecticut: median $348 across 22 hospitalsCT$348Rhode Island: median $236 across 10 hospitalsRI$236California: median $941 across 217 hospitalsCA$941Utah: median $522 across 43 hospitalsUT$522Colorado: median $633 across 64 hospitalsCO$633Nebraska: median $786 across 82 hospitalsNE$786Missouri: median $614 across 77 hospitalsMO$614Kentucky: median $716 across 67 hospitalsKY$716West Virginia: median $408 across 41 hospitalsWV$408Virginia: median $683 across 71 hospitalsVA$683Maryland: median $652 across 39 hospitalsMD$652Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $475 across 53 hospitalsAZ$475New Mexico: median $474 across 30 hospitalsNM$474Kansas: median $412 across 82 hospitalsKS$412Arkansas: median $222 across 38 hospitalsAR$222Tennessee: median $272 across 78 hospitalsTN$272North Carolina: median $644 across 95 hospitalsNC$644South Carolina: median $760 across 53 hospitalsSC$760Oklahoma: median $463 across 69 hospitalsOK$463Louisiana: median $261 across 54 hospitalsLA$261Mississippi: median $264 across 50 hospitalsMS$264Alabama: median $365 across 42 hospitalsAL$365Georgia: median $482 across 110 hospitalsGA$482Hawaii: median $493 across 19 hospitalsHI$493Texas: median $761 across 243 hospitalsTX$761Florida: median $1,264 across 172 hospitalsFL$1,264
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $549. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL172$1,264+130%$553 – $3,731
South Dakota SD41$1,013+85%$789 – $1,151
California CA217$941+71%$500 – $1,596
Alaska AK17$925+69%$493 – $1,150
Illinois IL123$792+44%$388 – $1,407
Nebraska NE82$786+43%$503 – $959
Texas TX243$761+39%$369 – $1,774
South Carolina SC53$760+38%$372 – $884
Nevada NV21$718+31%$232 – $1,115
Kentucky KY67$716+30%$427 – $875
Virginia VA71$683+24%$408 – $1,298
Vermont VT12$654+19%$189 – $1,025
Maryland MD39$652+19%$443 – $857
North Carolina NC95$644+17%$485 – $970
Massachusetts MA52$640+17%$361 – $954
Colorado CO64$633+15%$428 – $774
Missouri MO77$614+12%$359 – $859
Wyoming WY13$614+12%$281 – $901
Iowa IA87$541−1%$384 – $747
Washington WA69$530−3%$331 – $707
Wisconsin WI110$524−4%$316 – $825
Utah UT43$522−5%$423 – $754
New Hampshire NH22$511−7%$410 – $1,205
Michigan MI86$509−7%$299 – $785
Hawaii HI19$493−10%$317 – $558
Pennsylvania PA113$490−11%$176 – $1,121
Oregon OR46$485−12%$280 – $624
Georgia GA110$482−12%$196 – $1,073
Ohio OH139$477−13%$296 – $777
Arizona AZ53$475−13%$270 – $1,639
New Mexico NM30$474−14%$333 – $775
Oklahoma OK69$463−16%$278 – $627
Idaho ID22$459−16%$368 – $594
North Dakota ND34$443−19%$345 – $549
Minnesota MN100$442−20%$229 – $600
Indiana IN96$434−21%$139 – $608
Kansas KS82$412−25%$215 – $609
West Virginia WV41$408−26%$325 – $548
Montana MT16$372−32%$317 – $549
Maine ME25$365−33%$185 – $797
Alabama AL42$365−34%$165 – $634
Connecticut CT22$348−37%$236 – $627
New York NY114$294−46%$126 – $896
Tennessee TN78$272−50%$120 – $756
Mississippi MS50$264−52%$193 – $419
Louisiana LA54$261−52%$147 – $518
Rhode Island RI10$236−57%$116 – $594
Arkansas AR38$222−60%$169 – $506
New Jersey NJ58$214−61%$125 – $495
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 $549.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,354$571$265 – $1,040
Children’s65$745$454 – $1,106
Critical access914$518$282 – $811
Ownership
For-profit482$798$331 – $2,509
Government606$487$242 – $776
Non-profit2,245$543$276 – $920
System affiliation
Part of a system2,752$567$286 – $1,009
Independent591$493$216 – $808

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$927
Median cash price$549
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,297 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $589 and the average of the middle 60% is $610; most fall between $306 and $986.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,297 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
$211$369$589$890$1,323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($211 vs $1,323).

Of the 2,545 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,297 gave a usable cash price; 138 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 110 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,343 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,703 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,343
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here237
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 — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,703

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 PR Echo,Pelvic (Nonobstetric).

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, “Complete pelvic ultrasound through the abdomen (CPT 76856) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76856-complete-pelvic-ultrasound-through-the-abdomen