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

Ultrasound of the scrotum and testicles

CPT 76870the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound imaging of the scrotum and its contents, including the testicles.

Hospitals typically charge $526 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,320 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $540. Most fall between $270 and $894 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,320
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 3,320 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
$175$321$526$802$1,331

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($175 vs $1,331).

How the prices are spread

$125 – $165: 138 hospitals$125$165 – $218: 177 hospitals$218 – $287: 240 hospitals$218$287 – $379: 327 hospitals$379 – $500: 516 hospitals$379$500 – $659: 591 hospitals$659 – $870: 440 hospitals$659$870 – $1,147: 309 hospitals$1,147 – $1,513: 135 hospitals$1,147$1,513 – $1,997: 118 hospitals$1,513median $526price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,991 of 3,320 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$125$165138
$165$218177
$218$287240
$287$379327
$379$500516
$500$659591
$659$870440
$870$1,147309
$1,147$1,513135
$1,513$1,997118

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$526
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.9×

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 $526.

Alaska: median $846 across 17 hospitalsAK$846Maine: median $287 across 25 hospitalsME$287Vermont: median $677 across 12 hospitalsVT$677New Hampshire: median $440 across 22 hospitalsNH$440Washington: median $504 across 69 hospitalsWA$504Idaho: median $441 across 22 hospitalsID$441Montana: median $436 across 16 hospitalsMT$436North Dakota: median $423 across 34 hospitalsND$423Minnesota: median $428 across 99 hospitalsMN$428Illinois: median $757 across 124 hospitalsIL$757Wisconsin: median $507 across 110 hospitalsWI$507Michigan: median $495 across 85 hospitalsMI$495New York: median $290 across 110 hospitalsNY$290Massachusetts: median $576 across 52 hospitalsMA$576Oregon: median $428 across 46 hospitalsOR$428Nevada: median $718 across 20 hospitalsNV$718Wyoming: median $481 across 13 hospitalsWY$481South Dakota: median $883 across 40 hospitalsSD$883Iowa: median $522 across 87 hospitalsIA$522Indiana: median $423 across 96 hospitalsIN$423Ohio: median $535 across 139 hospitalsOH$535Pennsylvania: median $482 across 114 hospitalsPA$482New Jersey: median $178 across 57 hospitalsNJ$178Connecticut: median $337 across 22 hospitalsCT$337Rhode Island: median $427 across 10 hospitalsRI$427California: median $890 across 218 hospitalsCA$890Utah: median $510 across 41 hospitalsUT$510Colorado: median $538 across 65 hospitalsCO$538Nebraska: median $658 across 81 hospitalsNE$658Missouri: median $633 across 72 hospitalsMO$633Kentucky: median $638 across 67 hospitalsKY$638West Virginia: median $394 across 41 hospitalsWV$394Virginia: median $709 across 71 hospitalsVA$709Maryland: median $319 across 39 hospitalsMD$319Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $402 across 53 hospitalsAZ$402New Mexico: median $418 across 29 hospitalsNM$418Kansas: median $387 across 85 hospitalsKS$387Arkansas: median $198 across 38 hospitalsAR$198Tennessee: median $243 across 78 hospitalsTN$243North Carolina: median $522 across 95 hospitalsNC$522South Carolina: median $668 across 53 hospitalsSC$668Oklahoma: median $378 across 67 hospitalsOK$378Louisiana: median $257 across 51 hospitalsLA$257Mississippi: median $198 across 50 hospitalsMS$198Alabama: median $388 across 42 hospitalsAL$388Georgia: median $600 across 108 hospitalsGA$600Hawaii: median $359 across 18 hospitalsHI$359Texas: median $613 across 237 hospitalsTX$613Florida: median $922 across 174 hospitalsFL$922
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $526. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL174$922+75%$567 – $3,354
California CA218$890+69%$381 – $1,448
South Dakota SD40$883+68%$718 – $992
Alaska AK17$846+61%$510 – $1,180
Illinois IL124$757+44%$351 – $1,243
Nevada NV20$718+36%$191 – $1,016
Virginia VA71$709+35%$495 – $1,098
Vermont VT12$677+29%$166 – $1,234
South Carolina SC53$668+27%$351 – $910
Nebraska NE81$658+25%$503 – $807
Kentucky KY67$638+21%$427 – $943
Missouri MO72$633+20%$351 – $823
Texas TX237$613+16%$405 – $1,650
Georgia GA108$600+14%$244 – $977
Massachusetts MA52$576+9%$304 – $911
Colorado CO65$538+2%$395 – $705
Ohio OH139$535+2%$439 – $736
North Carolina NC95$522−1%$409 – $933
Iowa IA87$522−1%$374 – $668
Utah UT41$510−3%$390 – $642
Wisconsin WI110$507−4%$303 – $616
Washington WA69$504−4%$338 – $684
Michigan MI85$495−6%$303 – $708
Pennsylvania PA114$482−8%$154 – $1,070
Wyoming WY13$481−9%$142 – $804
Idaho ID22$441−16%$384 – $491
New Hampshire NH22$440−16%$361 – $1,094
Montana MT16$436−17%$328 – $570
Oregon OR46$428−19%$222 – $620
Minnesota MN99$428−19%$248 – $614
Rhode Island RI10$427−19%$163 – $442
Indiana IN96$423−20%$231 – $667
North Dakota ND34$423−20%$319 – $554
New Mexico NM29$418−21%$270 – $766
Arizona AZ53$402−24%$246 – $1,770
West Virginia WV41$394−25%$303 – $562
Alabama AL42$388−26%$201 – $839
Kansas KS85$387−26%$206 – $622
Oklahoma OK67$378−28%$258 – $579
Hawaii HI18$359−32%$317 – $493
Connecticut CT22$337−36%$253 – $627
Maryland MD39$319−39%$239 – $409
New York NY110$290−45%$130 – $866
Maine ME25$287−45%$147 – $700
Louisiana LA51$257−51%$147 – $532
Tennessee TN78$243−54%$114 – $572
Mississippi MS50$198−62%$154 – $314
Arkansas AR38$198−62%$151 – $508
New Jersey NJ57$178−66%$125 – $551
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 $526.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,344$538$260 – $966
Children’s65$590$426 – $1,022
Critical access901$488$285 – $752
Ownership
For-profit479$736$344 – $2,340
Government602$478$229 – $735
Non-profit2,229$518$274 – $869
System affiliation
Part of a system2,733$538$288 – $908
Independent587$473$221 – $750

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$867
Median cash price$526
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

2,261 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $554 and the average of the middle 60% is $571; most fall between $307 and $894.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,261 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
$202$363$554$821$1,207

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($202 vs $1,207).

Of the 2,513 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,261 gave a usable cash price; 142 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

3,320 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,679 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,320
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here236
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 code3,679

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,Scrotum & Contents.

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, “Ultrasound of the scrotum and testicles (CPT 76870) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76870-ultrasound-of-the-scrotum-and-testicles