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Vein ultrasound for blood clots, both arms or both legs

CPT 93970the billing code this page is about

A complete duplex ultrasound of the veins in both limbs, including compression of the veins, usually done to look for clots; covers both sides in one study.

Hospitals typically charge $898 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,467 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $895. Most fall between $381 and $1,503 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,467
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 3,467 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
$235$461$898$1,345$2,160

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($235 vs $2,160).

How the prices are spread

$139 – $190: 74 hospitals$139$190 – $259: 161 hospitals$259 – $354: 235 hospitals$259$354 – $482: 270 hospitals$482 – $658: 360 hospitals$482$658 – $898: 461 hospitals$898 – $1,225: 707 hospitals$898$1,225 – $1,671: 443 hospitals$1,671 – $2,280: 261 hospitals$1,671$2,280 – $3,111: 152 hospitals$2,280median $898price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,124 of 3,467 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$139$19074
$190$259161
$259$354235
$354$482270
$482$658360
$658$898461
$898$1,225707
$1,225$1,671443
$1,671$2,280261
$2,280$3,111152

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$898
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.7×

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 $898.

Alaska: median $1,380 across 19 hospitalsAK$1,380Maine: median $372 across 26 hospitalsME$372Vermont: median $750 across 14 hospitalsVT$750New Hampshire: median $997 across 25 hospitalsNH$997Washington: median $860 across 75 hospitalsWA$860Idaho: median $941 across 25 hospitalsID$941Montana: median $394 across 29 hospitalsMT$394North Dakota: median $782 across 37 hospitalsND$782Minnesota: median $838 across 109 hospitalsMN$838Illinois: median $1,129 across 127 hospitalsIL$1,129Wisconsin: median $1,015 across 111 hospitalsWI$1,015Michigan: median $699 across 97 hospitalsMI$699New York: median $610 across 117 hospitalsNY$610Massachusetts: median $971 across 52 hospitalsMA$971Oregon: median $931 across 56 hospitalsOR$931Nevada: median $911 across 22 hospitalsNV$911Wyoming: median $820 across 15 hospitalsWY$820South Dakota: median $1,326 across 43 hospitalsSD$1,326Iowa: median $918 across 95 hospitalsIA$918Indiana: median $1,010 across 94 hospitalsIN$1,010Ohio: median $957 across 130 hospitalsOH$957Pennsylvania: median $759 across 119 hospitalsPA$759New Jersey: median $379 across 59 hospitalsNJ$379Connecticut: median $755 across 23 hospitalsCT$755Rhode Island: median $387 across 10 hospitalsRI$387California: median $1,381 across 217 hospitalsCA$1,381Utah: median $1,139 across 42 hospitalsUT$1,139Colorado: median $877 across 70 hospitalsCO$877Nebraska: median $1,420 across 83 hospitalsNE$1,420Missouri: median $950 across 83 hospitalsMO$950Kentucky: median $925 across 71 hospitalsKY$925West Virginia: median $616 across 41 hospitalsWV$616Virginia: median $990 across 73 hospitalsVA$990Maryland: median $1,397 across 41 hospitalsMD$1,397Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $702 across 56 hospitalsAZ$702New Mexico: median $449 across 31 hospitalsNM$449Kansas: median $651 across 94 hospitalsKS$651Arkansas: median $321 across 40 hospitalsAR$321Tennessee: median $395 across 82 hospitalsTN$395North Carolina: median $781 across 92 hospitalsNC$781South Carolina: median $1,145 across 53 hospitalsSC$1,145Oklahoma: median $637 across 69 hospitalsOK$637Louisiana: median $417 across 57 hospitalsLA$417Mississippi: median $381 across 53 hospitalsMS$381Alabama: median $457 across 41 hospitalsAL$457Georgia: median $691 across 112 hospitalsGA$691Hawaii: median $701 across 16 hospitalsHI$701Texas: median $1,201 across 250 hospitalsTX$1,201Florida: median $1,215 across 164 hospitalsFL$1,215
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $898. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE83$1,420+58%$1,078 – $1,685
Maryland MD41$1,397+56%$971 – $1,748
California CA217$1,381+54%$637 – $2,437
Alaska AK19$1,380+54%$315 – $2,114
South Dakota SD43$1,326+48%$1,169 – $1,885
Florida FL164$1,215+35%$632 – $4,407
Texas TX250$1,201+34%$574 – $2,332
South Carolina SC53$1,145+28%$615 – $1,561
Utah UT42$1,139+27%$838 – $1,266
Illinois IL127$1,129+26%$474 – $1,866
Wisconsin WI111$1,015+13%$302 – $1,336
Indiana IN94$1,010+13%$629 – $1,555
New Hampshire NH25$997+11%$642 – $1,244
Virginia VA73$990+10%$552 – $2,195
Massachusetts MA52$971+8%$430 – $1,550
Ohio OH130$957+7%$559 – $1,459
Missouri MO83$950+6%$326 – $1,780
Idaho ID25$941+5%$590 – $1,139
Oregon OR56$931+4%$115 – $1,087
Kentucky KY71$925+3%$658 – $1,499
Iowa IA95$918+2%$590 – $1,221
Nevada NV22$911+1%$261 – $1,349
Colorado CO70$877−2%$433 – $1,227
Washington WA75$860−4%$363 – $1,337
Minnesota MN109$838−7%$337 – $1,074
Wyoming WY15$820−9%$210 – $1,201
North Dakota ND37$782−13%$564 – $1,020
North Carolina NC92$781−13%$636 – $1,177
Pennsylvania PA119$759−15%$288 – $1,805
Connecticut CT23$755−16%$419 – $1,235
Vermont VT14$750−16%$225 – $1,338
Arizona AZ56$702−22%$372 – $1,806
Hawaii HI16$701−22%$577 – $990
Michigan MI97$699−22%$232 – $1,178
Georgia GA112$691−23%$316 – $1,433
Kansas KS94$651−27%$300 – $993
Oklahoma OK69$637−29%$432 – $975
West Virginia WV41$616−31%$372 – $816
New York NY117$610−32%$260 – $1,462
Alabama AL41$457−49%$271 – $816
New Mexico NM31$449−50%$397 – $1,171
Louisiana LA57$417−54%$242 – $699
Tennessee TN82$395−56%$249 – $599
Montana MT29$394−56%$104 – $1,075
Rhode Island RI10$387−57%$222 – $984
Mississippi MS53$381−58%$242 – $511
New Jersey NJ59$379−58%$285 – $709
Maine ME26$372−59%$217 – $1,227
Arkansas AR40$321−64%$157 – $838
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 $898.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,397$915$384 – $1,693
Children’s69$984$622 – $1,908
Critical access991$838$354 – $1,300
Ownership
For-profit490$1,176$472 – $3,419
Government648$699$307 – $1,281
Non-profit2,319$904$385 – $1,452
System affiliation
Part of a system2,806$950$421 – $1,590
Independent661$642$260 – $1,206

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,519
Median cash price$898
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

2,337 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $958 and the average of the middle 60% is $952; most fall between $432 and $1,519.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,337 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$520$958$1,381$1,979

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($267 vs $1,979).

Of the 2,521 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,337 gave a usable cash price; 75 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 109 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,467 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 3,691 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,467
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here98
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 — excluded123
Hospitals that filed this code3,691

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 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 Other diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dup-Scan Xtr Veins Complete Bilateral 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, “Vein ultrasound for blood clots, both arms or both legs (CPT 93970) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93970-vein-ultrasound-for-blood-clots-both-arms-or-both-legs