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Limited ultrasound of an infant's hips

CPT 76886the billing code this page is about

Still-image ultrasound of a baby's hips without movement or stress testing, such as a follow-up check during brace treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $303 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,517 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $324. Most fall between $130 and $610 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,517
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,517 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
$94$161$303$530$914

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $914).

How the prices are spread

$72 – $96: 85 hospitals$72$96 – $128: 133 hospitals$128 – $169: 118 hospitals$128$169 – $224: 136 hospitals$224 – $298: 201 hospitals$224$298 – $395: 226 hospitals$395 – $524: 161 hospitals$395$524 – $695: 146 hospitals$695 – $923: 87 hospitals$695$923 – $1,224: 75 hospitals$923median $303price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,368 of 1,517 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$72$9685
$96$128133
$128$169118
$169$224136
$224$298201
$298$395226
$395$524161
$524$695146
$695$92387
$923$1,22475

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$303
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.4×

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 $303.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $364 across 10 hospitalsNH$364Washington: median $279 across 31 hospitalsWA$279Idaho: median $365 across 13 hospitalsID$365Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $352 across 10 hospitalsND$352Minnesota: median $225 across 45 hospitalsMN$225Illinois: median $428 across 61 hospitalsIL$428Wisconsin: median $347 across 59 hospitalsWI$347Michigan: median $285 across 44 hospitalsMI$285New York: median $227 across 63 hospitalsNY$227Massachusetts: median $315 across 35 hospitalsMA$315Oregon: median $236 across 25 hospitalsOR$236Nevada: median $460 across 10 hospitalsNV$460Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $285 across 10 hospitalsSD$285Iowa: median $332 across 22 hospitalsIA$332Indiana: median $149 across 34 hospitalsIN$149Ohio: median $360 across 55 hospitalsOH$360Pennsylvania: median $280 across 63 hospitalsPA$280New Jersey: median $117 across 36 hospitalsNJ$117Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $490 across 125 hospitalsCA$490Utah: median $33 across 26 hospitalsUT$33Colorado: median $334 across 26 hospitalsCO$334Nebraska: median $312 across 19 hospitalsNE$312Missouri: median $378 across 36 hospitalsMO$378Kentucky: median $302 across 25 hospitalsKY$302West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $293 across 37 hospitalsVA$293Maryland: median $625 across 25 hospitalsMD$625Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $143 across 27 hospitalsAZ$143New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $154 across 16 hospitalsKS$154Arkansas: median $115 across 16 hospitalsAR$115Tennessee: median $127 across 30 hospitalsTN$127North Carolina: median $272 across 41 hospitalsNC$272South Carolina: median $560 across 37 hospitalsSC$560Oklahoma: median $130 across 24 hospitalsOK$130Louisiana: median $119 across 25 hospitalsLA$119Mississippi: median $135 across 16 hospitalsMS$135Alabama: median $250 across 18 hospitalsAL$250Georgia: median $280 across 47 hospitalsGA$280Hawaii: median $358 across 11 hospitalsHI$358Texas: median $364 across 126 hospitalsTX$364Florida: median $616 across 70 hospitalsFL$616
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $303. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD25$625+106%$464 – $820
Florida FL70$616+103%$269 – $874
South Carolina SC37$560+85%$356 – $621
California CA125$490+62%$221 – $821
Nevada NV10$460+52%$94 – $1,076
Illinois IL61$428+41%$257 – $976
Missouri MO36$378+25%$247 – $533
Idaho ID13$365+20%$157 – $367
New Hampshire NH10$364+20%$273 – $613
Texas TX126$364+20%$221 – $788
Ohio OH55$360+19%$259 – $463
Hawaii HI11$358+18%$301 – $409
North Dakota ND10$352+16%$163 – $392
Wisconsin WI59$347+14%$265 – $849
Colorado CO26$334+10%$265 – $962
Iowa IA22$332+10%$179 – $506
Massachusetts MA35$315+4%$225 – $475
Nebraska NE19$312+3%$189 – $426
Kentucky KY25$3020%$127 – $943
Virginia VA37$293−3%$164 – $1,146
Michigan MI44$285−6%$208 – $319
South Dakota SD10$285−6%$285 – $643
Pennsylvania PA63$280−8%$84 – $659
Georgia GA47$280−8%$98 – $375
Washington WA31$279−8%$184 – $375
North Carolina NC41$272−10%$146 – $474
Alabama AL18$250−18%$100 – $388
Oregon OR25$236−22%$161 – $391
New York NY63$227−25%$104 – $495
Minnesota MN45$225−26%$173 – $457
Kansas KS16$154−49%$125 – $386
Indiana IN34$149−51%$98 – $423
Arizona AZ27$143−53%$107 – $338
Mississippi MS16$135−55%$86 – $267
Oklahoma OK24$130−57%$62 – $239
Tennessee TN30$127−58%$96 – $267
Louisiana LA25$119−61%$77 – $284
New Jersey NJ36$117−61%$98 – $153
Arkansas AR16$115−62%$97 – $352
Utah UT26$33−89%$28 – $33
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $303.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,257$292$125 – $610
Children’s61$449$346 – $995
Critical access196$296$154 – $534
Ownership
For-profit196$342$128 – $1,335
Government199$267$118 – $534
Non-profit1,119$311$137 – $566
System affiliation
Part of a system1,312$311$129 – $610
Independent205$279$136 – $563

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$530
Median cash price$303
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

1,130 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $321 and the average of the middle 60% is $343; most fall between $152 and $610.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,130 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
$96$176$321$553$849

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($96 vs $849).

Of the 1,255 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,130 gave a usable cash price; 78 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,517 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,691 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,517
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here119
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded55
Hospitals that filed this code1,691

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 Inft Hips R-T Img Lmtd Static Phys/Qhp Manj|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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Limited ultrasound of an infant's hips (CPT 76886) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76886-limited-ultrasound-of-an-infant-s-hips