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

Limited ultrasound of an arm or leg joint or soft tissue

CPT 76882the billing code this page is about

Focused ultrasound of a specific structure such as one tendon, muscle, or joint space in an arm or leg, rather than a complete exam.

Hospitals typically charge $313 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,255 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $328. Most fall between $142 and $589 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,255
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 3,255 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
$101$166$313$516$826

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($101 vs $826).

How the prices are spread

$71 – $95: 109 hospitals$71$95 – $125: 231 hospitals$125 – $166: 309 hospitals$125$166 – $220: 329 hospitals$220 – $291: 367 hospitals$220$291 – $385: 436 hospitals$385 – $510: 487 hospitals$385$510 – $675: 342 hospitals$675 – $894: 215 hospitals$675$894 – $1,183: 109 hospitals$894median $313price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,934 of 3,255 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$71$95109
$95$125231
$125$166309
$166$220329
$220$291367
$291$385436
$385$510487
$510$675342
$675$894215
$894$1,183109

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$313
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $313.

Alaska: median $235 across 17 hospitalsAK$235Maine: median $141 across 25 hospitalsME$141Vermont: median $488 across 12 hospitalsVT$488New Hampshire: median $266 across 22 hospitalsNH$266Washington: median $244 across 63 hospitalsWA$244Idaho: median $397 across 20 hospitalsID$397Montana: median $133 across 17 hospitalsMT$133North Dakota: median $187 across 33 hospitalsND$187Minnesota: median $301 across 100 hospitalsMN$301Illinois: median $442 across 124 hospitalsIL$442Wisconsin: median $219 across 108 hospitalsWI$219Michigan: median $366 across 83 hospitalsMI$366New York: median $169 across 110 hospitalsNY$169Massachusetts: median $271 across 52 hospitalsMA$271Oregon: median $242 across 46 hospitalsOR$242Nevada: median $366 across 19 hospitalsNV$366Wyoming: median $316 across 13 hospitalsWY$316South Dakota: median $630 across 40 hospitalsSD$630Iowa: median $351 across 88 hospitalsIA$351Indiana: median $281 across 93 hospitalsIN$281Ohio: median $426 across 137 hospitalsOH$426Pennsylvania: median $264 across 123 hospitalsPA$264New Jersey: median $139 across 46 hospitalsNJ$139Connecticut: median $173 across 22 hospitalsCT$173Rhode Island: median $252 across 10 hospitalsRI$252California: median $465 across 193 hospitalsCA$465Utah: median $351 across 41 hospitalsUT$351Colorado: median $346 across 64 hospitalsCO$346Nebraska: median $518 across 79 hospitalsNE$518Missouri: median $313 across 75 hospitalsMO$313Kentucky: median $257 across 67 hospitalsKY$257West Virginia: median $274 across 40 hospitalsWV$274Virginia: median $307 across 70 hospitalsVA$307Maryland: median $96 across 40 hospitalsMD$96Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $187 across 50 hospitalsAZ$187New Mexico: median $297 across 29 hospitalsNM$297Kansas: median $262 across 87 hospitalsKS$262Arkansas: median $137 across 37 hospitalsAR$137Tennessee: median $209 across 76 hospitalsTN$209North Carolina: median $285 across 94 hospitalsNC$285South Carolina: median $527 across 52 hospitalsSC$527Oklahoma: median $259 across 65 hospitalsOK$259Louisiana: median $200 across 52 hospitalsLA$200Mississippi: median $132 across 50 hospitalsMS$132Alabama: median $200 across 40 hospitalsAL$200Georgia: median $400 across 106 hospitalsGA$400Hawaii: median $300 across 18 hospitalsHI$300Texas: median $406 across 230 hospitalsTX$406Florida: median $637 across 171 hospitalsFL$637
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $313. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL171$637+103%$273 – $1,737
South Dakota SD40$630+101%$504 – $900
South Carolina SC52$527+68%$181 – $798
Nebraska NE79$518+65%$304 – $610
Vermont VT12$488+56%$57 – $736
California CA193$465+49%$179 – $847
Illinois IL124$442+41%$160 – $775
Ohio OH137$426+36%$279 – $545
Texas TX230$406+30%$238 – $904
Georgia GA106$400+28%$148 – $680
Idaho ID20$397+27%$217 – $441
Michigan MI83$366+17%$195 – $455
Nevada NV19$366+17%$151 – $462
Utah UT41$351+12%$316 – $539
Iowa IA88$351+12%$214 – $514
Colorado CO64$346+11%$210 – $512
Wyoming WY13$316+1%$125 – $505
Missouri MO75$3130%$157 – $528
Virginia VA70$307−2%$200 – $484
Minnesota MN100$301−4%$196 – $402
Hawaii HI18$300−4%$215 – $493
New Mexico NM29$297−5%$98 – $485
North Carolina NC94$285−9%$180 – $479
Indiana IN93$281−10%$106 – $432
West Virginia WV40$274−13%$203 – $381
Massachusetts MA52$271−13%$165 – $458
New Hampshire NH22$266−15%$149 – $605
Pennsylvania PA123$264−16%$121 – $557
Kansas KS87$262−16%$141 – $420
Oklahoma OK65$259−17%$155 – $435
Kentucky KY67$257−18%$149 – $455
Rhode Island RI10$252−19%$142 – $294
Washington WA63$244−22%$147 – $422
Oregon OR46$242−23%$117 – $421
Alaska AK17$235−25%$162 – $507
Wisconsin WI108$219−30%$126 – $385
Tennessee TN76$209−33%$95 – $307
Alabama AL40$200−36%$118 – $359
Louisiana LA52$200−36%$81 – $352
North Dakota ND33$187−40%$134 – $263
Arizona AZ50$187−40%$110 – $651
Connecticut CT22$173−45%$127 – $253
New York NY110$169−46%$115 – $442
Maine ME25$141−55%$53 – $246
New Jersey NJ46$139−56%$121 – $396
Arkansas AR37$137−56%$105 – $379
Montana MT17$133−58%$89 – $335
Mississippi MS50$132−58%$86 – $230
Maryland MD40$96−69%$72 – $123
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 $313.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,295$308$136 – $620
Children’s67$514$252 – $677
Critical access883$309$151 – $510
Ownership
For-profit471$396$183 – $1,183
Government587$285$141 – $504
Non-profit2,187$307$139 – $559
System affiliation
Part of a system2,679$322$146 – $606
Independent576$254$135 – $492

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$534
Median cash price$313
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

2,241 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $329 and the average of the middle 60% is $339; most fall between $155 and $570.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,241 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
$100$179$329$515$772

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($100 vs $772).

Of the 2,490 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,241 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 107 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,255 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 3,617 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,255
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here227
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 — excluded134
Hospitals that filed this code3,617

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 US Lmtd Jt/Fcl Eval Nonvasc Xtr Strux R-T W/Img.

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 ultrasound of an arm or leg joint or soft tissue (CPT 76882) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76882-limited-ultrasound-of-an-arm-or-leg-joint-or-soft-tissue