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

Ultrasound of neck arteries, one side or limited

CPT 93882the billing code this page is about

A duplex ultrasound of the neck arteries covering one side only or a limited portion of the study, combining images with blood flow measurement.

Hospitals typically charge $491 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,597 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $511. Most fall between $221 and $906 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,597
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 2,597 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
$126$260$491$804$1,315

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $1,315).

How the prices are spread

$82 – $113: 74 hospitals$82$113 – $155: 159 hospitals$155 – $212: 133 hospitals$155$212 – $290: 234 hospitals$290 – $397: 295 hospitals$290$397 – $544: 408 hospitals$544 – $745: 430 hospitals$544$745 – $1,021: 330 hospitals$1,021 – $1,398: 175 hospitals$1,021$1,398 – $1,916: 104 hospitals$1,398median $491price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,342 of 2,597 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$82$11374
$113$155159
$155$212133
$212$290234
$290$397295
$397$544408
$544$745430
$745$1,021330
$1,021$1,398175
$1,398$1,916104

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$491
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.6×

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 $491.

Alaska: median $438 across 12 hospitalsAK$438Maine: median $189 across 19 hospitalsME$189Vermont: median $406 across 10 hospitalsVT$406New Hampshire: median $527 across 17 hospitalsNH$527Washington: median $443 across 56 hospitalsWA$443Idaho: median $574 across 21 hospitalsID$574Montana: median $127 across 18 hospitalsMT$127North Dakota: median $580 across 15 hospitalsND$580Minnesota: median $453 across 80 hospitalsMN$453Illinois: median $507 across 96 hospitalsIL$507Wisconsin: median $605 across 88 hospitalsWI$605Michigan: median $379 across 82 hospitalsMI$379New York: median $304 across 91 hospitalsNY$304Massachusetts: median $561 across 40 hospitalsMA$561Oregon: median $442 across 44 hospitalsOR$442Nevada: median $447 across 15 hospitalsNV$447Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $836 across 23 hospitalsSD$836Iowa: median $480 across 48 hospitalsIA$480Indiana: median $445 across 70 hospitalsIN$445Ohio: median $464 across 112 hospitalsOH$464Pennsylvania: median $490 across 103 hospitalsPA$490New Jersey: median $142 across 55 hospitalsNJ$142Connecticut: median $487 across 16 hospitalsCT$487Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $851 across 163 hospitalsCA$851Utah: median $471 across 28 hospitalsUT$471Colorado: median $428 across 52 hospitalsCO$428Nebraska: median $808 across 59 hospitalsNE$808Missouri: median $399 across 62 hospitalsMO$399Kentucky: median $479 across 45 hospitalsKY$479West Virginia: median $347 across 34 hospitalsWV$347Virginia: median $482 across 64 hospitalsVA$482Maryland: median $873 across 33 hospitalsMD$873Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $278 across 44 hospitalsAZ$278New Mexico: median $176 across 12 hospitalsNM$176Kansas: median $533 across 55 hospitalsKS$533Arkansas: median $367 across 21 hospitalsAR$367Tennessee: median $248 across 55 hospitalsTN$248North Carolina: median $416 across 76 hospitalsNC$416South Carolina: median $731 across 47 hospitalsSC$731Oklahoma: median $356 across 50 hospitalsOK$356Louisiana: median $262 across 40 hospitalsLA$262Mississippi: median $207 across 44 hospitalsMS$207Alabama: median $244 across 28 hospitalsAL$244Georgia: median $588 across 80 hospitalsGA$588Hawaii: median $545 across 13 hospitalsHI$545Texas: median $601 across 197 hospitalsTX$601Florida: median $863 across 140 hospitalsFL$863
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $491. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD33$873+78%$529 – $1,102
Florida FL140$863+76%$410 – $2,069
California CA163$851+73%$394 – $1,468
South Dakota SD23$836+70%$558 – $1,337
Nebraska NE59$808+65%$373 – $1,080
South Carolina SC47$731+49%$387 – $877
Wisconsin WI88$605+23%$306 – $782
Texas TX197$601+23%$314 – $1,069
Georgia GA80$588+20%$216 – $1,190
North Dakota ND15$580+18%$48 – $647
Idaho ID21$574+17%$360 – $799
Massachusetts MA40$561+14%$353 – $1,061
Hawaii HI13$545+11%$323 – $662
Kansas KS55$533+9%$300 – $928
New Hampshire NH17$527+7%$344 – $791
Illinois IL96$507+3%$229 – $980
Pennsylvania PA103$4900%$165 – $986
Connecticut CT16$487−1%$358 – $813
Virginia VA64$482−2%$230 – $638
Iowa IA48$480−2%$233 – $693
Kentucky KY45$479−2%$163 – $890
Utah UT28$471−4%$471 – $523
Ohio OH112$464−6%$172 – $590
Minnesota MN80$453−8%$209 – $636
Nevada NV15$447−9%$113 – $561
Indiana IN70$445−9%$184 – $729
Washington WA56$443−10%$228 – $771
Oregon OR44$442−10%$71 – $763
Alaska AK12$438−11%$208 – $1,200
Colorado CO52$428−13%$303 – $658
North Carolina NC76$416−15%$297 – $571
Vermont VT10$406−17%$180 – $758
Missouri MO62$399−19%$284 – $754
Michigan MI82$379−23%$144 – $706
Arkansas AR21$367−25%$163 – $532
Oklahoma OK50$356−28%$203 – $424
West Virginia WV34$347−29%$163 – $541
New York NY91$304−38%$126 – $926
Arizona AZ44$278−43%$187 – $2,106
Louisiana LA40$262−47%$175 – $457
Tennessee TN55$248−49%$64 – $488
Alabama AL28$244−50%$140 – $515
Mississippi MS44$207−58%$152 – $319
Maine ME19$189−61%$103 – $1,141
New Mexico NM12$176−64%$129 – $650
New Jersey NJ55$142−71%$118 – $433
Montana MT18$127−74%$37 – $501
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not 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 $491.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,993$489$222 – $941
Children’s48$587$397 – $1,169
Critical access546$489$211 – $805
Ownership
For-profit361$718$287 – $2,150
Government406$455$202 – $790
Non-profit1,820$479$218 – $851
System affiliation
Part of a system2,178$502$230 – $921
Independent419$404$152 – $871

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$903
Median cash price$491
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

1,831 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $516 and the average of the middle 60% is $530; most fall between $233 and $877.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,831 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
$133$289$516$807$1,204

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($133 vs $1,204).

Of the 1,959 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,831 gave a usable cash price; 46 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,597 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,766 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,597
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded90
Hospitals that filed this code2,766

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Duplex Scan Extracranial Art Uni/Lmtd 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 neck arteries, one side or limited (CPT 93882) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93882-ultrasound-of-neck-arteries-one-side-or-limited