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Procedure price report · Diagnostic ultrasound (echocardiogram) or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of heart

Ultrasound guidance for a heart muscle biopsy

CPT 76932the billing code this page is about

Real-time ultrasound used to guide instrument placement while a tissue sample is taken from the heart muscle, including the imaging record.

Hospitals typically charge $405 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 402 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $447. Most fall between $122 and $863 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
402
States
44
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 402 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
$81$183$405$780$1,365

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $1,365).

How the prices are spread

$42 – $63: 14 hospitals$42$63 – $96: 25 hospitals$96 – $146: 31 hospitals$96$146 – $223: 39 hospitals$223 – $339: 50 hospitals$223$339 – $516: 54 hospitals$516 – $785: 81 hospitals$516$785 – $1,194: 35 hospitals$1,194 – $1,817: 27 hospitals$1,194$1,817 – $2,765: 8 hospitals$1,817median $405price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (364 of 402 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$42$6314
$63$9625
$96$14631
$146$22339
$223$33950
$339$51654
$516$78581
$785$1,19435
$1,194$1,81727
$1,817$2,7658

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $405.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $327 across 12 hospitalsWA$327Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $781 across 22 hospitalsIL$781Wisconsin: median $183 across 25 hospitalsWI$183Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $202 across 13 hospitalsNY$202Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $81 across 13 hospitalsIA$81Indiana: median $122 across 23 hospitalsIN$122Ohio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $24 across 11 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $780 across 47 hospitalsCA$780Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $577 across 10 hospitalsVA$577Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $7,453 across 14 hospitalsSC$7,453Oklahoma: median $262 across 11 hospitalsOK$262Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,117 across 16 hospitalsGA$1,117Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $455 across 26 hospitalsTX$455Florida: median $681 across 35 hospitalsFL$681
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $405. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC14$7,453+1742%$183 – $7,453
Georgia GA16$1,117+176%$1,117 – $1,270
Illinois IL22$781+93%$99 – $1,001
California CA47$780+93%$666 – $1,140
Florida FL35$681+68%$266 – $1,458
Virginia VA10$577+43%$344 – $577
Texas TX26$455+13%$362 – $816
Washington WA12$327−19%$300 – $638
Oklahoma OK11$262−35%$262 – $467
New York NY13$202−50%$91 – $339
Wisconsin WI25$183−55%$183 – $794
Indiana IN23$122−70%$38 – $258
Iowa IA13$81−80%$81 – $81
Pennsylvania PA11$24−94%$22 – $40
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $405.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care347$455$122 – $937
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access39$183$122 – $780
Ownership
For-profit43$455$165 – $1,117
Government37$352$150 – $777
Non-profit321$445$122 – $816
System affiliation
Part of a system365$455$122 – $937
Independent37$362$140 – $646

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$727
Median cash price$405
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

316 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $455 and the average of the middle 60% is $509; most fall between $183 and $1,001.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 316 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
$81$210$455$816$1,606

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $1,606).

Of the 362 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 316 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

402 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 470 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted402
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code470

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Diagnostic ultrasound (echocardiogram) or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as US Endomyocardial Biopsy Rs&I|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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Ultrasound guidance for a heart muscle biopsy (CPT 76932) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76932-ultrasound-guidance-for-a-heart-muscle-biopsy