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

Ultrasound guidance for freezing or heating tissue

CPT 76940the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound imaging used to guide and monitor a procedure that destroys tissue with cold or heat, such as tumor ablation, billed separately from the ablation itself.

Hospitals typically charge $493 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,194 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $539. Most fall between $216 and $1,000 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,194
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 1,194 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
$133$268$493$919$1,524

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($133 vs $1,524).

How the prices are spread

$92 – $128: 63 hospitals$92$128 – $178: 73 hospitals$178 – $249: 83 hospitals$178$249 – $347: 127 hospitals$347 – $484: 177 hospitals$347$484 – $674: 205 hospitals$674 – $940: 122 hospitals$674$940 – $1,312: 116 hospitals$1,312 – $1,829: 76 hospitals$1,312$1,829 – $2,551: 40 hospitals$1,829median $493price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,082 of 1,194 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$92$12863
$128$17873
$178$24983
$249$347127
$347$484177
$484$674205
$674$940122
$940$1,312116
$1,312$1,82976
$1,829$2,55140

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $493.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $323 across 32 hospitalsWA$323Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $579 across 25 hospitalsMN$579Illinois: median $873 across 45 hospitalsIL$873Wisconsin: median $420 across 47 hospitalsWI$420Michigan: median $317 across 27 hospitalsMI$317New York: median $488 across 35 hospitalsNY$488Massachusetts: median $324 across 23 hospitalsMA$324Oregon: median $490 across 23 hospitalsOR$490Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $284 across 18 hospitalsIA$284Indiana: median $201 across 43 hospitalsIN$201Ohio: median $489 across 70 hospitalsOH$489Pennsylvania: median $650 across 57 hospitalsPA$650New Jersey: median $241 across 26 hospitalsNJ$241Connecticut: median $334 across 11 hospitalsCT$334Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $655 across 110 hospitalsCA$655Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $781 across 35 hospitalsCO$781Nebraska: median $247 across 14 hospitalsNE$247Missouri: median $425 across 24 hospitalsMO$425Kentucky: median $764 across 21 hospitalsKY$764West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $464 across 35 hospitalsVA$464Maryland: median $101 across 10 hospitalsMD$101Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $629 across 28 hospitalsAZ$629New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $92 across 17 hospitalsTN$92North Carolina: median $346 across 38 hospitalsNC$346South Carolina: median $842 across 19 hospitalsSC$842Oklahoma: median $546 across 15 hospitalsOK$546Louisiana: median $116 across 15 hospitalsLA$116Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $397 across 41 hospitalsGA$397Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $582 across 115 hospitalsTX$582Florida: median $988 across 75 hospitalsFL$988
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $493. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL75$988+100%$307 – $2,513
Illinois IL45$873+77%$361 – $1,748
South Carolina SC19$842+71%$370 – $899
Colorado CO35$781+58%$527 – $1,462
Kentucky KY21$764+55%$171 – $943
California CA110$655+33%$387 – $1,405
Pennsylvania PA57$650+32%$139 – $1,317
Arizona AZ28$629+28%$193 – $1,841
Texas TX115$582+18%$401 – $1,940
Minnesota MN25$579+17%$484 – $695
Oklahoma OK15$546+11%$99 – $805
Oregon OR23$490−1%$285 – $790
Ohio OH70$489−1%$275 – $1,033
New York NY35$488−1%$231 – $582
Virginia VA35$464−6%$92 – $560
Missouri MO24$425−14%$354 – $985
Wisconsin WI47$420−15%$212 – $749
Georgia GA41$397−19%$211 – $946
North Carolina NC38$346−30%$273 – $391
Connecticut CT11$334−32%$265 – $431
Massachusetts MA23$324−34%$167 – $755
Washington WA32$323−34%$268 – $712
Michigan MI27$317−36%$149 – $468
Iowa IA18$284−42%$181 – $655
Nebraska NE14$247−50%$239 – $392
New Jersey NJ26$241−51%$99 – $6,770
Indiana IN43$201−59%$104 – $571
Louisiana LA15$116−76%$48 – $228
Maryland MD10$101−80%$68 – $147
Tennessee TN17$92−81%$90 – $145
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $493.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,066$491$222 – $1,006
Children’s32$891$436 – $1,675
Critical access89$391$148 – $955
Ownership
For-profit140$728$247 – $2,069
Government126$391$259 – $764
Non-profit921$491$211 – $985
System affiliation
Part of a system1,080$503$216 – $1,008
Independent114$426$214 – $918

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$792
Median cash price$493
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

928 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $491 and the average of the middle 60% is $535; most fall between $222 and $985.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 928 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
$127$275$491$873$1,453

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($127 vs $1,453).

Of the 1,016 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 928 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,194 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,340 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,194
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
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 — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code1,340

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 Other diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as US &Mntr Parenchymal Tissue Ablation|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 freezing or heating tissue (CPT 76940) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76940-ultrasound-guidance-for-freezing-or-heating-tissue