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Vein ultrasound for blood clots, one limb or limited

CPT 93971the billing code this page is about

A duplex ultrasound of the veins in one arm or leg, or a limited study of part of the veins, including compression, usually done to look for clots.

Hospitals typically charge $582 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,429 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $596. Most fall between $234 and $1,030 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,429
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 3,429 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
$131$295$582$925$1,451

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $1,451).

How the prices are spread

$81 – $112: 84 hospitals$81$112 – $156: 202 hospitals$156 – $217: 158 hospitals$156$217 – $301: 255 hospitals$301 – $418: 360 hospitals$301$418 – $580: 483 hospitals$580 – $805: 613 hospitals$580$805 – $1,117: 530 hospitals$1,117 – $1,550: 262 hospitals$1,117$1,550 – $2,152: 141 hospitals$1,550median $582price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,088 of 3,429 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$81$11284
$112$156202
$156$217158
$217$301255
$301$418360
$418$580483
$580$805613
$805$1,117530
$1,117$1,550262
$1,550$2,152141

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$582
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.5×

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 $582.

Alaska: median $750 across 19 hospitalsAK$750Maine: median $252 across 28 hospitalsME$252Vermont: median $567 across 13 hospitalsVT$567New Hampshire: median $596 across 25 hospitalsNH$596Washington: median $530 across 69 hospitalsWA$530Idaho: median $449 across 25 hospitalsID$449Montana: median $164 across 29 hospitalsMT$164North Dakota: median $505 across 36 hospitalsND$505Minnesota: median $481 across 108 hospitalsMN$481Illinois: median $722 across 126 hospitalsIL$722Wisconsin: median $675 across 111 hospitalsWI$675Michigan: median $492 across 95 hospitalsMI$492New York: median $331 across 116 hospitalsNY$331Massachusetts: median $585 across 51 hospitalsMA$585Oregon: median $431 across 56 hospitalsOR$431Nevada: median $531 across 22 hospitalsNV$531Wyoming: median $461 across 15 hospitalsWY$461South Dakota: median $974 across 43 hospitalsSD$974Iowa: median $629 across 96 hospitalsIA$629Indiana: median $660 across 94 hospitalsIN$660Ohio: median $685 across 130 hospitalsOH$685Pennsylvania: median $452 across 119 hospitalsPA$452New Jersey: median $233 across 56 hospitalsNJ$233Connecticut: median $386 across 22 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: median $186 across 10 hospitalsRI$186California: median $893 across 202 hospitalsCA$893Utah: median $771 across 43 hospitalsUT$771Colorado: median $622 across 70 hospitalsCO$622Nebraska: median $1,022 across 83 hospitalsNE$1,022Missouri: median $529 across 82 hospitalsMO$529Kentucky: median $593 across 71 hospitalsKY$593West Virginia: median $376 across 42 hospitalsWV$376Virginia: median $670 across 73 hospitalsVA$670Maryland: median $850 across 41 hospitalsMD$850Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $414 across 54 hospitalsAZ$414New Mexico: median $343 across 31 hospitalsNM$343Kansas: median $536 across 95 hospitalsKS$536Arkansas: median $222 across 38 hospitalsAR$222Tennessee: median $307 across 80 hospitalsTN$307North Carolina: median $518 across 93 hospitalsNC$518South Carolina: median $806 across 53 hospitalsSC$806Oklahoma: median $449 across 70 hospitalsOK$449Louisiana: median $249 across 58 hospitalsLA$249Mississippi: median $274 across 53 hospitalsMS$274Alabama: median $289 across 40 hospitalsAL$289Georgia: median $553 across 108 hospitalsGA$553Hawaii: median $319 across 17 hospitalsHI$319Texas: median $803 across 246 hospitalsTX$803Florida: median $856 across 165 hospitalsFL$856
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $582. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE83$1,022+75%$726 – $1,233
South Dakota SD43$974+67%$848 – $1,308
California CA202$893+53%$360 – $1,719
Florida FL165$856+47%$497 – $2,971
Maryland MD41$850+46%$591 – $1,064
South Carolina SC53$806+38%$586 – $1,083
Texas TX246$803+38%$418 – $1,398
Utah UT43$771+32%$428 – $857
Alaska AK19$750+29%$156 – $1,693
Illinois IL126$722+24%$314 – $1,256
Ohio OH130$685+18%$397 – $1,033
Wisconsin WI111$675+16%$191 – $963
Virginia VA73$670+15%$382 – $1,247
Indiana IN94$660+13%$382 – $1,085
Iowa IA96$629+8%$394 – $756
Colorado CO70$622+7%$334 – $783
New Hampshire NH25$596+2%$168 – $988
Kentucky KY71$593+2%$404 – $1,100
Massachusetts MA51$5850%$263 – $995
Vermont VT13$567−3%$61 – $842
Georgia GA108$553−5%$222 – $1,026
Kansas KS95$536−8%$178 – $796
Nevada NV22$531−9%$194 – $840
Washington WA69$530−9%$132 – $807
Missouri MO82$529−9%$227 – $1,015
North Carolina NC93$518−11%$350 – $873
North Dakota ND36$505−13%$419 – $722
Michigan MI95$492−15%$144 – $767
Minnesota MN108$481−17%$163 – $756
Wyoming WY15$461−21%$125 – $803
Pennsylvania PA119$452−22%$165 – $1,178
Idaho ID25$449−23%$227 – $622
Oklahoma OK70$449−23%$302 – $633
Oregon OR56$431−26%$78 – $728
Arizona AZ54$414−29%$231 – $1,748
Connecticut CT22$386−34%$188 – $821
West Virginia WV42$376−36%$256 – $541
New Mexico NM31$343−41%$225 – $716
New York NY116$331−43%$126 – $984
Hawaii HI17$319−45%$259 – $540
Tennessee TN80$307−47%$144 – $425
Alabama AL40$289−50%$154 – $535
Mississippi MS53$274−53%$158 – $358
Maine ME28$252−57%$138 – $795
Louisiana LA58$249−57%$150 – $506
New Jersey NJ56$233−60%$125 – $721
Arkansas AR38$222−62%$198 – $557
Rhode Island RI10$186−68%$116 – $935
Montana MT29$164−72%$33 – $762
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 $582.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,371$599$236 – $1,083
Children’s68$609$485 – $1,169
Critical access980$541$222 – $898
Ownership
For-profit491$763$332 – $2,088
Government648$480$196 – $873
Non-profit2,280$578$233 – $998
System affiliation
Part of a system2,767$617$269 – $1,059
Independent662$427$144 – $808

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,016
Median cash price$582
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

2,314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $623 and the average of the middle 60% is $624; most fall between $269 and $1,021.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,314 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
$151$330$623$931$1,308

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($151 vs $1,308).

Of the 2,502 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,314 gave a usable cash price; 80 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 108 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,429 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (87%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,664 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,429
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here107
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 — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,664

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 Unilateral/Limited Study|PROFESSIONAL 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, “Vein ultrasound for blood clots, one limb or limited (CPT 93971) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93971-vein-ultrasound-for-blood-clots-one-limb-or-limited