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

Ultrasound-guided compression repair of an artery bulge

CPT 76936the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound imaging used to locate a false aneurysm or graft leak in an artery and guide compression to close it, including monitoring and the imaging record.

Hospitals typically charge $660 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,705 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $708. Most fall between $330 and $1,386 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,705
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,705 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
$226$367$660$1,125$2,114

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($226 vs $2,114).

How the prices are spread

$166 – $221: 75 hospitals$166$221 – $293: 133 hospitals$293 – $388: 188 hospitals$293$388 – $515: 189 hospitals$515 – $683: 214 hospitals$515$683 – $906: 223 hospitals$906 – $1,202: 198 hospitals$906$1,202 – $1,595: 135 hospitals$1,595 – $2,116: 104 hospitals$1,595$2,116 – $2,807: 82 hospitals$2,116median $660price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,541 of 1,705 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$166$22175
$221$293133
$293$388188
$388$515189
$515$683214
$683$906223
$906$1,202198
$1,202$1,595135
$1,595$2,116104
$2,116$2,80782

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$660
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.0×

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 $660.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $470 across 11 hospitalsME$470Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $576 across 40 hospitalsWA$576Idaho: median $1,276 across 11 hospitalsID$1,276Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $374 across 23 hospitalsMN$374Illinois: median $745 across 67 hospitalsIL$745Wisconsin: median $880 across 57 hospitalsWI$880Michigan: median $666 across 25 hospitalsMI$666New York: median $638 across 63 hospitalsNY$638Massachusetts: median $799 across 20 hospitalsMA$799Oregon: median $758 across 26 hospitalsOR$758Nevada: median $484 across 12 hospitalsNV$484Wyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $737 across 10 hospitalsSD$737Iowa: median $727 across 24 hospitalsIA$727Indiana: median $524 across 60 hospitalsIN$524Ohio: median $1,386 across 90 hospitalsOH$1,386Pennsylvania: median $583 across 77 hospitalsPA$583New Jersey: median $408 across 48 hospitalsNJ$408Connecticut: 7 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 $1,071 across 130 hospitalsCA$1,071Utah: median $250 across 28 hospitalsUT$250Colorado: median $1,002 across 36 hospitalsCO$1,002Nebraska: median $614 across 13 hospitalsNE$614Missouri: median $558 across 49 hospitalsMO$558Kentucky: median $927 across 32 hospitalsKY$927West Virginia: median $527 across 10 hospitalsWV$527Virginia: median $764 across 41 hospitalsVA$764Maryland: median $124 across 20 hospitalsMD$124Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $249 across 28 hospitalsAZ$249New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $948 across 21 hospitalsKS$948Arkansas: median $121 across 15 hospitalsAR$121Tennessee: median $341 across 37 hospitalsTN$341North Carolina: median $404 across 47 hospitalsNC$404South Carolina: median $621 across 37 hospitalsSC$621Oklahoma: median $308 across 27 hospitalsOK$308Louisiana: median $369 across 29 hospitalsLA$369Mississippi: median $392 across 26 hospitalsMS$392Alabama: median $406 across 28 hospitalsAL$406Georgia: median $597 across 58 hospitalsGA$597Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $613 across 157 hospitalsTX$613Florida: median $1,075 across 116 hospitalsFL$1,075
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $660. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH90$1,386+110%$462 – $1,700
Idaho ID11$1,276+93%$440 – $1,279
Florida FL116$1,075+63%$507 – $2,678
California CA130$1,071+62%$481 – $1,829
Colorado CO36$1,002+52%$761 – $2,114
Kansas KS21$948+44%$272 – $1,744
Kentucky KY32$927+40%$335 – $1,250
Wisconsin WI57$880+33%$456 – $1,889
Massachusetts MA20$799+21%$396 – $1,018
Virginia VA41$764+16%$437 – $1,078
Oregon OR26$758+15%$576 – $1,270
Illinois IL67$745+13%$545 – $1,093
South Dakota SD10$737+12%$737 – $1,298
Iowa IA24$727+10%$239 – $1,274
Michigan MI25$666+1%$297 – $1,067
New York NY63$638−3%$368 – $1,129
South Carolina SC37$621−6%$488 – $1,240
Nebraska NE13$614−7%$457 – $885
Texas TX157$613−7%$273 – $1,466
Georgia GA58$597−10%$355 – $1,021
Pennsylvania PA77$583−12%$365 – $2,290
Washington WA40$576−13%$449 – $953
Missouri MO49$558−15%$337 – $998
West Virginia WV10$527−20%$366 – $1,179
Indiana IN60$524−21%$286 – $752
Nevada NV12$484−27%$234 – $1,936
Maine ME11$470−29%$213 – $784
New Jersey NJ48$408−38%$330 – $862
Alabama AL28$406−39%$249 – $917
North Carolina NC47$404−39%$361 – $747
Mississippi MS26$392−41%$240 – $784
Minnesota MN23$374−43%$341 – $631
Louisiana LA29$369−44%$179 – $593
Tennessee TN37$341−48%$166 – $574
Oklahoma OK27$308−53%$267 – $700
Utah UT28$250−62%$225 – $377
Arizona AZ28$249−62%$200 – $818
Maryland MD20$124−81%$70 – $148
Arkansas AR15$121−82%$118 – $437
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $660.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,495$642$327 – $1,385
Children’s30$890$437 – $2,605
Critical access172$700$286 – $1,279
Ownership
For-profit260$827$355 – $2,444
Government204$461$313 – $929
Non-profit1,233$660$332 – $1,386
System affiliation
Part of a system1,501$678$339 – $1,429
Independent204$569$286 – $1,032

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,168
Median cash price$660
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

1,260 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $687 and the average of the middle 60% is $745; most fall between $346 and $1,397.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,260 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
$231$402$687$1,141$2,020

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($231 vs $2,020).

Of the 1,397 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,260 gave a usable cash price; 77 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,705 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,888 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,705
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here113
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code1,888

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 Cmprn Rpr Artl Pseudoarysm/Arven Fstl.

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-guided compression repair of an artery bulge (CPT 76936) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76936-ultrasound-guided-compression-repair-of-an-artery-bulge