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

Ultrasound stiffness scan of a lesion, each added lesion

CPT 76983the billing code this page is about

Billed once for each additional targeted lesion measured with ultrasound elastography in the same session, in addition to the first lesion.

Hospitals typically charge $193 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 725 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $216. Most fall between $93 and $434 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
725
States
46
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 725 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
$54$109$193$372$608

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $608).

How the prices are spread

$38 – $52: 33 hospitals$38$52 – $72: 33 hospitals$72 – $100: 56 hospitals$72$100 – $137: 83 hospitals$137 – $189: 112 hospitals$137$189 – $261: 114 hospitals$261 – $360: 73 hospitals$261$360 – $496: 62 hospitals$496 – $684: 70 hospitals$496$684 – $943: 20 hospitals$684median $193price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (656 of 725 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$38$5233
$52$7233
$72$10056
$100$13783
$137$189112
$189$261114
$261$36073
$360$49662
$496$68470
$684$94320

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $193.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 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 $164 across 24 hospitalsWA$164Idaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $240 across 12 hospitalsMN$240Illinois: median $292 across 34 hospitalsIL$292Wisconsin: median $180 across 19 hospitalsWI$180Michigan: median $78 across 21 hospitalsMI$78New York: median $101 across 29 hospitalsNY$101Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $240 across 21 hospitalsOR$240Nevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $43 across 15 hospitalsIA$43Indiana: median $442 across 18 hospitalsIN$442Ohio: median $177 across 44 hospitalsOH$177Pennsylvania: median $152 across 37 hospitalsPA$152New Jersey: median $79 across 12 hospitalsNJ$79Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $220 across 64 hospitalsCA$220Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $140 across 21 hospitalsCO$140Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $153 across 16 hospitalsMO$153Kentucky: median $238 across 16 hospitalsKY$238West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $304 across 27 hospitalsVA$304Maryland: median $373 across 11 hospitalsMD$373Delaware: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $104 across 16 hospitalsTN$104North Carolina: median $140 across 15 hospitalsNC$140South Carolina: median $182 across 20 hospitalsSC$182Oklahoma: median $114 across 21 hospitalsOK$114Louisiana: median $49 across 13 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $608 across 32 hospitalsGA$608Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $519 across 49 hospitalsTX$519Florida: median $251 across 41 hospitalsFL$251
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $193. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA32$608+215%$98 – $608
Texas TX49$519+169%$225 – $1,008
Indiana IN18$442+129%$330 – $597
Maryland MD11$373+93%$320 – $455
Virginia VA27$304+58%$180 – $332
Illinois IL34$292+51%$89 – $434
Florida FL41$251+30%$110 – $439
Minnesota MN12$240+25%$193 – $344
Oregon OR21$240+24%$182 – $428
Kentucky KY16$238+24%$126 – $943
California CA64$220+14%$109 – $332
South Carolina SC20$182−5%$94 – $202
Wisconsin WI19$180−7%$162 – $180
Ohio OH44$177−8%$176 – $539
Washington WA24$164−15%$103 – $328
Missouri MO16$153−21%$115 – $322
Pennsylvania PA37$152−21%$17 – $580
North Carolina NC15$140−27%$67 – $232
Colorado CO21$140−28%$126 – $387
Oklahoma OK21$114−41%$80 – $212
Tennessee TN16$104−46%$91 – $179
New York NY29$101−48%$55 – $285
New Jersey NJ12$79−59%$35 – $976
Michigan MI21$78−60%$49 – $284
Louisiana LA13$49−75%$41 – $72
Iowa IA15$43−78%$43 – $114
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not 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
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $193.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care628$190$91 – $434
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access73$207$112 – $456
Ownership
For-profit66$205$107 – $504
Government87$193$81 – $439
Non-profit567$193$93 – $428
System affiliation
Part of a system638$193$95 – $442
Independent87$194$86 – $334

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$336
Median cash price$193
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

539 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $193 and the average of the middle 60% is $214; most fall between $98 and $434.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 539 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
$67$110$193$344$608

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $608).

Of the 595 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 539 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

725 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 818 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted725
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded50
Hospitals that filed this code818

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 USE EA ADDL TARGET LESION.

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, each added lesion (CPT 76983) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76983-ultrasound-stiffness-scan-of-a-lesion-each-added-lesion