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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Ultrasound guidance for radioactive implant placement

CPT 76965the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound imaging used to guide placement of radioactive seeds or needles into tissue for internal radiation treatment; covers the imaging guidance only.

Hospitals typically charge $693 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,159 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $717. Most fall between $246 and $1,356 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,159
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 1,159 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
$132$308$693$1,202$2,199

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($132 vs $2,199).

How the prices are spread

$77 – $111: 27 hospitals$77$111 – $160: 65 hospitals$160 – $230: 71 hospitals$160$230 – $332: 89 hospitals$332 – $479: 104 hospitals$332$479 – $690: 166 hospitals$690 – $994: 209 hospitals$690$994 – $1,432: 152 hospitals$1,432 – $2,064: 84 hospitals$1,432$2,064 – $2,974: 78 hospitals$2,064median $693price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,045 of 1,159 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$77$11127
$111$16065
$160$23071
$230$33289
$332$479104
$479$690166
$690$994209
$994$1,432152
$1,432$2,06484
$2,064$2,97478

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $693.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $630 across 30 hospitalsWA$630Idaho: median $614 across 10 hospitalsID$614Montana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $785 across 11 hospitalsMN$785Illinois: median $655 across 38 hospitalsIL$655Wisconsin: median $515 across 48 hospitalsWI$515Michigan: median $546 across 40 hospitalsMI$546New York: median $693 across 36 hospitalsNY$693Massachusetts: median $264 across 18 hospitalsMA$264Oregon: median $1,146 across 14 hospitalsOR$1,146Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $197 across 17 hospitalsIA$197Indiana: median $136 across 34 hospitalsIN$136Ohio: median $775 across 68 hospitalsOH$775Pennsylvania: median $885 across 56 hospitalsPA$885New Jersey: median $396 across 22 hospitalsNJ$396Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $936 across 94 hospitalsCA$936Utah: median $544 across 27 hospitalsUT$544Colorado: median $1,584 across 32 hospitalsCO$1,584Nebraska: median $253 across 13 hospitalsNE$253Missouri: median $605 across 23 hospitalsMO$605Kentucky: median $660 across 26 hospitalsKY$660West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $934 across 30 hospitalsVA$934Maryland: median $125 across 16 hospitalsMD$125Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $564 across 27 hospitalsAZ$564New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $412 across 25 hospitalsTN$412North Carolina: median $410 across 33 hospitalsNC$410South Carolina: median $1,104 across 29 hospitalsSC$1,104Oklahoma: median $43 across 14 hospitalsOK$43Louisiana: median $224 across 15 hospitalsLA$224Mississippi: median $273 across 18 hospitalsMS$273Alabama: median $580 across 16 hospitalsAL$580Georgia: median $712 across 50 hospitalsGA$712Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $822 across 93 hospitalsTX$822Florida: median $833 across 70 hospitalsFL$833
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $693. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO32$1,584+128%$803 – $3,990
Oregon OR14$1,146+65%$123 – $1,283
South Carolina SC29$1,104+59%$679 – $1,536
California CA94$936+35%$738 – $1,950
Virginia VA30$934+35%$335 – $1,146
Pennsylvania PA56$885+28%$216 – $2,662
Florida FL70$833+20%$740 – $2,063
Texas TX93$822+19%$232 – $1,608
Minnesota MN11$785+13%$223 – $911
Ohio OH68$775+12%$428 – $1,310
Georgia GA50$712+3%$440 – $1,202
New York NY36$6930%$158 – $1,598
Kentucky KY26$660−5%$132 – $943
Illinois IL38$655−6%$211 – $1,042
Washington WA30$630−9%$216 – $1,171
Idaho ID10$614−11%$406 – $1,745
Missouri MO23$605−13%$474 – $1,164
Alabama AL16$580−16%$358 – $2,805
Arizona AZ27$564−19%$372 – $2,480
Michigan MI40$546−21%$213 – $1,137
Utah UT27$544−21%$402 – $544
Wisconsin WI48$515−26%$263 – $519
Tennessee TN25$412−41%$168 – $747
North Carolina NC33$410−41%$267 – $786
New Jersey NJ22$396−43%$154 – $4,751
Mississippi MS18$273−61%$117 – $457
Massachusetts MA18$264−62%$62 – $1,279
Nebraska NE13$253−64%$227 – $437
Louisiana LA15$224−68%$103 – $284
Iowa IA17$197−72%$151 – $923
Indiana IN34$136−80%$106 – $1,035
Maryland MD16$125−82%$75 – $704
Oklahoma OK14$43−94%$43 – $1,322
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $693.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,042$712$260 – $1,367
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access105$519$173 – $1,263
Ownership
For-profit153$815$406 – $2,480
Government123$610$287 – $1,039
Non-profit878$683$227 – $1,311
System affiliation
Part of a system1,061$706$253 – $1,356
Independent98$633$226 – $1,324

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,192
Median cash price$693
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

922 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $712 and the average of the middle 60% is $733; most fall between $283 and $1,319.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 922 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
$152$363$712$1,156$2,148

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($152 vs $2,148).

Of the 1,022 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 922 gave a usable cash price; 53 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,159 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,321 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,159
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here82
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded79
Hospitals that filed this code1,321

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 Therapeutic radiology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as US Guidance Interstitial Radioelment Application|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, “Ultrasound guidance for radioactive implant placement (CPT 76965) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76965-ultrasound-guidance-for-radioactive-implant-placement