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Limited pelvic ultrasound through the abdomen

CPT 76857the billing code this page is about

A focused or follow-up ultrasound of the pelvis through the lower abdomen, covering less than a complete exam.

Hospitals typically charge $345 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,242 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $360. Most fall between $156 and $616 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,242
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 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 3,242 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
$110$191$345$547$929

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($110 vs $929).

How the prices are spread

$87 – $114: 181 hospitals$87$114 – $149: 269 hospitals$149 – $194: 212 hospitals$149$194 – $254: 329 hospitals$254 – $332: 394 hospitals$254$332 – $434: 455 hospitals$434 – $568: 487 hospitals$434$568 – $743: 305 hospitals$743 – $971: 163 hospitals$743$971 – $1,269: 123 hospitals$971median $345price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,918 of 3,242 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$87$114181
$114$149269
$149$194212
$194$254329
$254$332394
$332$434455
$434$568487
$568$743305
$743$971163
$971$1,269123

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$345
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.2×

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 $345.

Alaska: median $458 across 17 hospitalsAK$458Maine: median $137 across 25 hospitalsME$137Vermont: median $631 across 12 hospitalsVT$631New Hampshire: median $316 across 22 hospitalsNH$316Washington: median $360 across 68 hospitalsWA$360Idaho: median $404 across 21 hospitalsID$404Montana: median $265 across 16 hospitalsMT$265North Dakota: median $317 across 30 hospitalsND$317Minnesota: median $306 across 96 hospitalsMN$306Illinois: median $488 across 121 hospitalsIL$488Wisconsin: median $334 across 109 hospitalsWI$334Michigan: median $240 across 84 hospitalsMI$240New York: median $243 across 114 hospitalsNY$243Massachusetts: median $363 across 52 hospitalsMA$363Oregon: median $164 across 45 hospitalsOR$164Nevada: median $366 across 17 hospitalsNV$366Wyoming: median $318 across 13 hospitalsWY$318South Dakota: median $494 across 37 hospitalsSD$494Iowa: median $337 across 78 hospitalsIA$337Indiana: median $295 across 95 hospitalsIN$295Ohio: median $373 across 139 hospitalsOH$373Pennsylvania: median $370 across 115 hospitalsPA$370New Jersey: median $135 across 57 hospitalsNJ$135Connecticut: median $130 across 22 hospitalsCT$130Rhode Island: median $258 across 10 hospitalsRI$258California: median $527 across 210 hospitalsCA$527Utah: median $492 across 40 hospitalsUT$492Colorado: median $433 across 64 hospitalsCO$433Nebraska: median $415 across 79 hospitalsNE$415Missouri: median $314 across 72 hospitalsMO$314Kentucky: median $402 across 64 hospitalsKY$402West Virginia: median $303 across 40 hospitalsWV$303Virginia: median $424 across 69 hospitalsVA$424Maryland: median $224 across 37 hospitalsMD$224Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $299 across 53 hospitalsAZ$299New Mexico: median $298 across 28 hospitalsNM$298Kansas: median $297 across 85 hospitalsKS$297Arkansas: median $119 across 28 hospitalsAR$119Tennessee: median $190 across 73 hospitalsTN$190North Carolina: median $295 across 93 hospitalsNC$295South Carolina: median $537 across 52 hospitalsSC$537Oklahoma: median $301 across 67 hospitalsOK$301Louisiana: median $200 across 53 hospitalsLA$200Mississippi: median $163 across 49 hospitalsMS$163Alabama: median $200 across 41 hospitalsAL$200Georgia: median $332 across 104 hospitalsGA$332Hawaii: median $321 across 18 hospitalsHI$321Texas: median $459 across 228 hospitalsTX$459Florida: median $858 across 174 hospitalsFL$858
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $345. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL174$858+149%$311 – $1,764
Vermont VT12$631+83%$145 – $737
South Carolina SC52$537+56%$219 – $793
California CA210$527+53%$252 – $944
South Dakota SD37$494+43%$406 – $704
Utah UT40$492+43%$345 – $579
Illinois IL121$488+41%$214 – $862
Texas TX228$459+33%$282 – $1,064
Alaska AK17$458+33%$238 – $738
Colorado CO64$433+26%$256 – $618
Virginia VA69$424+23%$235 – $760
Nebraska NE79$415+20%$224 – $528
Idaho ID21$404+17%$270 – $441
Kentucky KY64$402+16%$182 – $667
Ohio OH139$373+8%$196 – $567
Pennsylvania PA115$370+7%$125 – $719
Nevada NV17$366+6%$129 – $641
Massachusetts MA52$363+5%$181 – $591
Washington WA68$360+4%$137 – $512
Iowa IA78$337−2%$230 – $437
Wisconsin WI109$334−3%$122 – $498
Georgia GA104$332−4%$155 – $814
Hawaii HI18$321−7%$170 – $479
Wyoming WY13$318−8%$130 – $654
North Dakota ND30$317−8%$135 – $456
New Hampshire NH22$316−8%$150 – $729
Missouri MO72$314−9%$181 – $542
Minnesota MN96$306−11%$215 – $410
West Virginia WV40$303−12%$247 – $403
Oklahoma OK67$301−13%$194 – $435
Arizona AZ53$299−13%$223 – $651
New Mexico NM28$298−14%$200 – $628
Kansas KS85$297−14%$156 – $457
Indiana IN95$295−14%$122 – $491
North Carolina NC93$295−15%$159 – $550
Montana MT16$265−23%$76 – $332
Rhode Island RI10$258−25%$71 – $389
New York NY114$243−30%$96 – $545
Michigan MI84$240−30%$161 – $534
Maryland MD37$224−35%$149 – $286
Louisiana LA53$200−42%$111 – $400
Alabama AL41$200−42%$115 – $438
Tennessee TN73$190−45%$100 – $353
Oregon OR45$164−52%$86 – $419
Mississippi MS49$163−53%$107 – $355
Maine ME25$137−60%$59 – $210
New Jersey NJ57$135−61%$108 – $264
Connecticut CT22$130−62%$93 – $399
Arkansas AR28$119−66%$96 – $346
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 $345.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,298$349$151 – $662
Children’s61$486$280 – $649
Critical access873$336$158 – $521
Ownership
For-profit460$488$217 – $1,431
Government576$294$139 – $498
Non-profit2,196$337$152 – $579
System affiliation
Part of a system2,679$357$166 – $627
Independent563$290$138 – $547

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$585
Median cash price$345
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

2,247 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $366 and the average of the middle 60% is $378; most fall between $180 and $616.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,247 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
$121$215$366$560$882

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($121 vs $882).

Of the 2,487 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,247 gave a usable cash price; 139 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,242 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,242
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here230
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 — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,589

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 US Pelvic Nonobstetric Image Dcmtn Limited/F/U.

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, “Limited pelvic ultrasound through the abdomen (CPT 76857) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76857-limited-pelvic-ultrasound-through-the-abdomen