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

Unlisted ultrasound procedure

CPT 76999the billing code this page is about

Used for an ultrasound service that has no specific billing code of its own; the report describes what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $272 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,455 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $273. Most fall between $121 and $475 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,455
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,455 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
$94$138$272$427$726

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($94 vs $726).

How the prices are spread

$75 – $97: 89 hospitals$75$97 – $127: 153 hospitals$127 – $164: 145 hospitals$127$164 – $214: 150 hospitals$214 – $277: 147 hospitals$214$277 – $360: 223 hospitals$360 – $468: 182 hospitals$360$468 – $608: 113 hospitals$608 – $790: 64 hospitals$608$790 – $1,027: 53 hospitals$790median $272price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,319 of 1,455 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$75$9789
$97$127153
$127$164145
$164$214150
$214$277147
$277$360223
$360$468182
$468$608113
$608$79064
$790$1,02753

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$89
Median cash price$272
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $272.

Alaska: median $294 across 10 hospitalsAK$294Maine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 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 $242 across 27 hospitalsWA$242Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $244 across 13 hospitalsND$244Minnesota: median $443 across 40 hospitalsMN$443Illinois: median $279 across 50 hospitalsIL$279Wisconsin: median $297 across 44 hospitalsWI$297Michigan: median $319 across 32 hospitalsMI$319New York: median $171 across 61 hospitalsNY$171Massachusetts: median $306 across 27 hospitalsMA$306Oregon: median $269 across 27 hospitalsOR$269Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $475 across 11 hospitalsSD$475Iowa: median $240 across 33 hospitalsIA$240Indiana: median $202 across 49 hospitalsIN$202Ohio: median $389 across 71 hospitalsOH$389Pennsylvania: median $146 across 57 hospitalsPA$146New Jersey: median $116 across 30 hospitalsNJ$116Connecticut: median $311 across 15 hospitalsCT$311Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $245 across 114 hospitalsCA$245Utah: median $294 across 26 hospitalsUT$294Colorado: median $292 across 28 hospitalsCO$292Nebraska: median $399 across 27 hospitalsNE$399Missouri: median $245 across 39 hospitalsMO$245Kentucky: median $261 across 25 hospitalsKY$261West Virginia: median $333 across 11 hospitalsWV$333Virginia: median $196 across 29 hospitalsVA$196Maryland: median $401 across 13 hospitalsMD$401Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $228 across 11 hospitalsAZ$228New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $220 across 24 hospitalsKS$220Arkansas: median $120 across 11 hospitalsAR$120Tennessee: median $159 across 23 hospitalsTN$159North Carolina: median $304 across 51 hospitalsNC$304South Carolina: median $228 across 28 hospitalsSC$228Oklahoma: median $178 across 32 hospitalsOK$178Louisiana: median $88 across 20 hospitalsLA$88Mississippi: median $188 across 22 hospitalsMS$188Alabama: median $149 across 18 hospitalsAL$149Georgia: median $326 across 61 hospitalsGA$326Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $198 across 131 hospitalsTX$198Florida: median $533 across 58 hospitalsFL$533
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $272. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL58$533+96%$185 – $1,979
South Dakota SD11$475+75%$475 – $619
Minnesota MN40$443+63%$326 – $551
Maryland MD13$401+47%$232 – $501
Nebraska NE27$399+47%$205 – $610
Ohio OH71$389+43%$221 – $689
West Virginia WV11$333+23%$280 – $349
Georgia GA61$326+20%$203 – $568
Michigan MI32$319+17%$120 – $384
Connecticut CT15$311+14%$154 – $597
Massachusetts MA27$306+13%$135 – $427
North Carolina NC51$304+12%$151 – $427
Wisconsin WI44$297+9%$75 – $374
Alaska AK10$294+8%$92 – $616
Utah UT26$294+8%$294 – $301
Colorado CO28$292+7%$93 – $346
Illinois IL50$279+3%$105 – $662
Oregon OR27$269−1%$150 – $309
Kentucky KY25$261−4%$159 – $943
California CA114$245−10%$141 – $683
Missouri MO39$245−10%$131 – $363
North Dakota ND13$244−10%$125 – $326
Washington WA27$242−11%$137 – $464
Iowa IA33$240−12%$109 – $432
South Carolina SC28$228−16%$179 – $378
Arizona AZ11$228−16%$107 – $437
Kansas KS24$220−19%$102 – $397
Indiana IN49$202−26%$65 – $415
Texas TX131$198−27%$135 – $402
Virginia VA29$196−28%$119 – $349
Mississippi MS22$188−31%$103 – $444
Oklahoma OK32$178−35%$82 – $346
New York NY61$171−37%$104 – $290
Tennessee TN23$159−42%$109 – $763
Alabama AL18$149−45%$56 – $333
Pennsylvania PA57$146−46%$103 – $464
Arkansas AR11$120−56%$100 – $209
New Jersey NJ30$116−58%$98 – $391
Louisiana LA20$88−67%$54 – $165
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $272.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,112$253$114 – $474
Children’s40$367$205 – $519
Critical access299$301$165 – $480
Ownership
For-profit183$346$135 – $1,132
Government234$277$131 – $473
Non-profit1,034$259$119 – $458
System affiliation
Part of a system1,204$272$120 – $464
Independent251$264$132 – $524

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$454
Median cash price$272
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

975 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $273 and the average of the middle 60% is $274; most fall between $134 and $461.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 975 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
$99$149$273$415$683

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($99 vs $683).

Of the 1,092 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 975 gave a usable cash price; 63 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,455 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,624 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,455
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here105
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 — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,624

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 July 20, 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 PR Detailed First Trimester Ultrasound C/T 76801|TECHNICAL 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, “Unlisted ultrasound procedure (CPT 76999) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-76999-unlisted-ultrasound-procedure