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

Ultrasound stiffness scan of a lesion, first lesion

CPT 76982the billing code this page is about

Ultrasound elastography that measures the stiffness of one targeted lesion; covers the first lesion examined during the session.

Hospitals typically charge $307 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 905 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $315. Most fall between $141 and $573 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
905
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 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 905 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
$107$163$307$483$745

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($107 vs $745).

How the prices are spread

$83 – $106: 43 hospitals$83$106 – $135: 79 hospitals$135 – $172: 75 hospitals$135$172 – $220: 66 hospitals$220 – $280: 106 hospitals$220$280 – $357: 142 hospitals$357 – $456: 88 hospitals$357$456 – $581: 92 hospitals$581 – $741: 72 hospitals$581$741 – $945: 52 hospitals$741median $307price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (815 of 905 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$83$10643
$106$13579
$135$17275
$172$22066
$220$280106
$280$357142
$357$45688
$456$58192
$581$74172
$741$94552

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$307
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $307.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $213 across 31 hospitalsWA$213Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $284 across 12 hospitalsMN$284Illinois: median $387 across 36 hospitalsIL$387Wisconsin: median $360 across 30 hospitalsWI$360Michigan: median $170 across 26 hospitalsMI$170New York: median $210 across 47 hospitalsNY$210Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $480 across 20 hospitalsOR$480Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $53 across 15 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: median $420 across 29 hospitalsIN$420Ohio: median $408 across 56 hospitalsOH$408Pennsylvania: median $169 across 43 hospitalsPA$169New Jersey: median $125 across 25 hospitalsNJ$125Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $342 across 69 hospitalsCA$342Utah: median $573 across 23 hospitalsUT$573Colorado: median $153 across 19 hospitalsCO$153Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $289 across 17 hospitalsMO$289Kentucky: median $269 across 19 hospitalsKY$269West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $345 across 31 hospitalsVA$345Maryland: median $655 across 12 hospitalsMD$655Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $114 across 11 hospitalsAZ$114New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $152 across 23 hospitalsTN$152North Carolina: median $242 across 11 hospitalsNC$242South Carolina: median $310 across 20 hospitalsSC$310Oklahoma: median $130 across 24 hospitalsOK$130Louisiana: median $163 across 13 hospitalsLA$163Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $608 across 34 hospitalsGA$608Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $356 across 70 hospitalsTX$356Florida: median $404 across 53 hospitalsFL$404
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $307. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD12$655+113%$608 – $857
Georgia GA34$608+98%$98 – $608
Utah UT23$573+86%$573 – $674
Oregon OR20$480+56%$300 – $519
Indiana IN29$420+37%$103 – $789
Ohio OH56$408+33%$252 – $539
Florida FL53$404+32%$221 – $687
Illinois IL36$387+26%$230 – $482
Wisconsin WI30$360+17%$256 – $745
Texas TX70$356+16%$352 – $653
Virginia VA31$345+12%$332 – $622
California CA69$342+11%$224 – $423
South Carolina SC20$310+1%$173 – $403
Missouri MO17$289−6%$245 – $709
Minnesota MN12$284−8%$239 – $406
Kentucky KY19$269−13%$167 – $943
North Carolina NC11$242−21%$144 – $337
Washington WA31$213−31%$173 – $328
New York NY47$210−32%$126 – $545
Michigan MI26$170−45%$144 – $383
Pennsylvania PA43$169−45%$107 – $580
Louisiana LA13$163−47%$91 – $226
Colorado CO19$153−50%$140 – $243
Tennessee TN23$152−51%$100 – $339
Oklahoma OK24$130−58%$114 – $302
New Jersey NJ25$125−59%$116 – $173
Arizona AZ11$114−63%$103 – $142
Iowa IA15$53−83%$53 – $114
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $307.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care784$302$135 – $546
Children’s27$493$252 – $796
Critical access89$345$189 – $653
Ownership
For-profit98$356$160 – $591
Government100$243$126 – $513
Non-profit702$310$143 – $573
System affiliation
Part of a system794$328$141 – $580
Independent111$253$140 – $416

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$516
Median cash price$307
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

666 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $342 and the average of the middle 60% is $335; most fall between $167 and $573.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 666 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
$114$193$342$483$734

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($114 vs $734).

Of the 722 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 666 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

905 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 979 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted905
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
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 — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code979

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 Ultrasound Elastography First Target Lesion|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 stiffness scan of a lesion, first lesion (CPT 76982) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76982-ultrasound-stiffness-scan-of-a-lesion-first-lesion