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Procedure price report · Diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of head and neck

Ultrasound of both neck (carotid) arteries

CPT 93880the billing code this page is about

A complete duplex ultrasound of the arteries in the neck on both sides, combining images with blood flow measurement.

Hospitals typically charge $811 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,462 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $830. Most fall between $353 and $1,423 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,462
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,462 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
$236$447$811$1,280$2,091

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($236 vs $2,091).

How the prices are spread

$125 – $172: 51 hospitals$125$172 – $236: 124 hospitals$236 – $324: 258 hospitals$236$324 – $444: 252 hospitals$444 – $610: 388 hospitals$444$610 – $838: 542 hospitals$838 – $1,151: 667 hospitals$838$1,151 – $1,580: 429 hospitals$1,580 – $2,169: 261 hospitals$1,580$2,169 – $2,979: 145 hospitals$2,169median $811price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,117 of 3,462 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$125$17251
$172$236124
$236$324258
$324$444252
$444$610388
$610$838542
$838$1,151667
$1,151$1,580429
$1,580$2,169261
$2,169$2,979145

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$811
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.3×

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 $811.

Alaska: median $1,144 across 19 hospitalsAK$1,144Maine: median $405 across 28 hospitalsME$405Vermont: median $870 across 14 hospitalsVT$870New Hampshire: median $806 across 25 hospitalsNH$806Washington: median $626 across 75 hospitalsWA$626Idaho: median $832 across 25 hospitalsID$832Montana: median $354 across 32 hospitalsMT$354North Dakota: median $725 across 37 hospitalsND$725Minnesota: median $753 across 109 hospitalsMN$753Illinois: median $1,083 across 125 hospitalsIL$1,083Wisconsin: median $985 across 109 hospitalsWI$985Michigan: median $623 across 97 hospitalsMI$623New York: median $603 across 118 hospitalsNY$603Massachusetts: median $977 across 51 hospitalsMA$977Oregon: median $644 across 55 hospitalsOR$644Nevada: median $980 across 22 hospitalsNV$980Wyoming: median $612 across 14 hospitalsWY$612South Dakota: median $1,462 across 43 hospitalsSD$1,462Iowa: median $860 across 95 hospitalsIA$860Indiana: median $873 across 94 hospitalsIN$873Ohio: median $805 across 130 hospitalsOH$805Pennsylvania: median $770 across 118 hospitalsPA$770New Jersey: median $326 across 57 hospitalsNJ$326Connecticut: median $971 across 23 hospitalsCT$971Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,241 across 214 hospitalsCA$1,241Utah: median $876 across 41 hospitalsUT$876Colorado: median $810 across 71 hospitalsCO$810Nebraska: median $1,410 across 82 hospitalsNE$1,410Missouri: median $751 across 81 hospitalsMO$751Kentucky: median $847 across 71 hospitalsKY$847West Virginia: median $556 across 41 hospitalsWV$556Virginia: median $793 across 73 hospitalsVA$793Maryland: median $1,384 across 40 hospitalsMD$1,384Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $726 across 57 hospitalsAZ$726New Mexico: median $639 across 31 hospitalsNM$639Kansas: median $625 across 96 hospitalsKS$625Arkansas: median $343 across 39 hospitalsAR$343Tennessee: median $465 across 83 hospitalsTN$465North Carolina: median $703 across 93 hospitalsNC$703South Carolina: median $906 across 52 hospitalsSC$906Oklahoma: median $599 across 71 hospitalsOK$599Louisiana: median $419 across 57 hospitalsLA$419Mississippi: median $310 across 54 hospitalsMS$310Alabama: median $430 across 42 hospitalsAL$430Georgia: median $682 across 112 hospitalsGA$682Hawaii: median $711 across 14 hospitalsHI$711Texas: median $1,225 across 250 hospitalsTX$1,225Florida: median $1,512 across 166 hospitalsFL$1,512
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $811. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL166$1,512+86%$632 – $3,994
South Dakota SD43$1,462+80%$1,102 – $1,827
Nebraska NE82$1,410+74%$991 – $1,657
Maryland MD40$1,384+71%$894 – $1,715
California CA214$1,241+53%$650 – $2,333
Texas TX250$1,225+51%$550 – $1,662
Alaska AK19$1,144+41%$273 – $1,609
Illinois IL125$1,083+34%$460 – $1,729
Wisconsin WI109$985+22%$290 – $1,175
Nevada NV22$980+21%$259 – $1,376
Massachusetts MA51$977+21%$561 – $1,575
Connecticut CT23$971+20%$610 – $1,407
South Carolina SC52$906+12%$673 – $1,168
Utah UT41$876+8%$811 – $1,018
Indiana IN94$873+8%$510 – $1,320
Vermont VT14$870+7%$160 – $1,544
Iowa IA95$860+6%$581 – $1,085
Kentucky KY71$847+4%$596 – $1,600
Idaho ID25$832+3%$319 – $1,303
Colorado CO71$8100%$425 – $972
New Hampshire NH25$806−1%$610 – $1,405
Ohio OH130$805−1%$607 – $1,199
Virginia VA73$793−2%$429 – $1,121
Pennsylvania PA118$770−5%$347 – $1,481
Minnesota MN109$753−7%$342 – $993
Missouri MO81$751−7%$250 – $2,005
Arizona AZ57$726−10%$344 – $3,137
North Dakota ND37$725−11%$475 – $975
Hawaii HI14$711−12%$577 – $852
North Carolina NC93$703−13%$450 – $1,146
Georgia GA112$682−16%$276 – $1,284
Oregon OR55$644−21%$108 – $1,040
New Mexico NM31$639−21%$425 – $973
Washington WA75$626−23%$349 – $1,006
Kansas KS96$625−23%$315 – $951
Michigan MI97$623−23%$290 – $1,067
Wyoming WY14$612−24%$229 – $1,060
New York NY118$603−26%$277 – $1,580
Oklahoma OK71$599−26%$356 – $903
West Virginia WV41$556−31%$333 – $799
Tennessee TN83$465−43%$225 – $802
Alabama AL42$430−47%$234 – $1,021
Louisiana LA57$419−48%$241 – $640
Maine ME28$405−50%$189 – $1,166
Montana MT32$354−56%$59 – $939
Arkansas AR39$343−58%$284 – $905
New Jersey NJ57$326−60%$268 – $804
Mississippi MS54$310−62%$219 – $504
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $811.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,400$831$363 – $1,556
Children’s53$931$582 – $1,709
Critical access999$785$325 – $1,225
Ownership
For-profit489$1,144$477 – $3,264
Government657$692$286 – $1,146
Non-profit2,306$817$354 – $1,362
System affiliation
Part of a system2,801$862$387 – $1,479
Independent661$633$262 – $1,146

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,398
Median cash price$811
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,359 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $876 and the average of the middle 60% is $880; most fall between $425 and $1,410.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,359 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
$267$510$876$1,288$1,927

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($267 vs $1,927).

Of the 2,522 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,359 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 111 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,462 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (88%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,670 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,462
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here83
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded122
Hospitals that filed this code3,670

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Duplex Scan Extracranial Art Compl Bi Study.

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 of both neck (carotid) arteries (CPT 93880) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93880-ultrasound-of-both-neck-carotid-arteries