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Procedure price report · Diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of abdomen or retroperitoneum

Limited belly or pelvis blood vessel ultrasound

CPT 93976the billing code this page is about

A duplex ultrasound limited to selected arteries and veins of the abdominal, pelvic or scrotal organs rather than a full survey of all vessels.

Hospitals typically charge $545 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,084 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $567. Most fall between $245 and $1,016 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,084
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 3,084 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
$144$292$545$896$1,502

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($144 vs $1,502).

How the prices are spread

$102 – $137: 136 hospitals$102$137 – $185: 141 hospitals$185 – $250: 195 hospitals$185$250 – $336: 263 hospitals$336 – $453: 368 hospitals$336$453 – $611: 465 hospitals$611 – $823: 496 hospitals$611$823 – $1,109: 330 hospitals$1,109 – $1,495: 224 hospitals$1,109$1,495 – $2,014: 160 hospitals$1,495median $545price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,778 of 3,084 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$102$137136
$137$185141
$185$250195
$250$336263
$336$453368
$453$611465
$611$823496
$823$1,109330
$1,109$1,495224
$1,495$2,014160

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$545
Cash as a multiple of Medicare5.1×

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 $545.

Alaska: median $465 across 16 hospitalsAK$465Maine: median $217 across 18 hospitalsME$217Vermont: median $502 across 12 hospitalsVT$502New Hampshire: median $594 across 21 hospitalsNH$594Washington: median $523 across 68 hospitalsWA$523Idaho: median $585 across 21 hospitalsID$585Montana: median $197 across 24 hospitalsMT$197North Dakota: median $575 across 29 hospitalsND$575Minnesota: median $481 across 106 hospitalsMN$481Illinois: median $721 across 118 hospitalsIL$721Wisconsin: median $392 across 108 hospitalsWI$392Michigan: median $466 across 90 hospitalsMI$466New York: median $313 across 101 hospitalsNY$313Massachusetts: median $694 across 48 hospitalsMA$694Oregon: median $537 across 54 hospitalsOR$537Nevada: median $447 across 17 hospitalsNV$447Wyoming: median $482 across 13 hospitalsWY$482South Dakota: median $880 across 34 hospitalsSD$880Iowa: median $601 across 68 hospitalsIA$601Indiana: median $442 across 90 hospitalsIN$442Ohio: median $627 across 121 hospitalsOH$627Pennsylvania: median $438 across 118 hospitalsPA$438New Jersey: median $165 across 57 hospitalsNJ$165Connecticut: median $518 across 22 hospitalsCT$518Rhode Island: median $225 across 10 hospitalsRI$225California: median $914 across 195 hospitalsCA$914Utah: median $603 across 35 hospitalsUT$603Colorado: median $544 across 60 hospitalsCO$544Nebraska: median $590 across 66 hospitalsNE$590Missouri: median $649 across 74 hospitalsMO$649Kentucky: median $488 across 57 hospitalsKY$488West Virginia: median $465 across 35 hospitalsWV$465Virginia: median $611 across 63 hospitalsVA$611Maryland: median $911 across 41 hospitalsMD$911Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $400 across 54 hospitalsAZ$400New Mexico: median $297 across 23 hospitalsNM$297Kansas: median $520 across 69 hospitalsKS$520Arkansas: median $167 across 32 hospitalsAR$167Tennessee: median $282 across 73 hospitalsTN$282North Carolina: median $409 across 82 hospitalsNC$409South Carolina: median $749 across 48 hospitalsSC$749Oklahoma: median $405 across 60 hospitalsOK$405Louisiana: median $262 across 49 hospitalsLA$262Mississippi: median $206 across 46 hospitalsMS$206Alabama: median $390 across 38 hospitalsAL$390Georgia: median $552 across 91 hospitalsGA$552Hawaii: median $634 across 16 hospitalsHI$634Texas: median $720 across 224 hospitalsTX$720Florida: median $1,024 across 162 hospitalsFL$1,024
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $545. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL162$1,024+88%$510 – $2,827
California CA195$914+68%$373 – $1,681
Maryland MD41$911+67%$638 – $1,305
South Dakota SD34$880+62%$760 – $1,055
South Carolina SC48$749+38%$494 – $819
Illinois IL118$721+32%$325 – $1,187
Texas TX224$720+32%$433 – $1,713
Massachusetts MA48$694+28%$412 – $1,271
Missouri MO74$649+19%$303 – $980
Hawaii HI16$634+16%$592 – $667
Ohio OH121$627+15%$397 – $977
Virginia VA63$611+12%$370 – $904
Utah UT35$603+11%$357 – $710
Iowa IA68$601+10%$378 – $762
New Hampshire NH21$594+9%$209 – $904
Nebraska NE66$590+8%$400 – $908
Idaho ID21$585+7%$433 – $779
North Dakota ND29$575+6%$414 – $730
Georgia GA91$552+1%$190 – $1,071
Colorado CO60$5440%$246 – $820
Oregon OR54$537−1%$91 – $906
Washington WA68$523−4%$363 – $865
Kansas KS69$520−4%$322 – $738
Connecticut CT22$518−5%$301 – $850
Vermont VT12$502−8%$260 – $991
Kentucky KY57$488−10%$232 – $1,156
Wyoming WY13$482−12%$182 – $670
Minnesota MN106$481−12%$207 – $777
Michigan MI90$466−14%$144 – $811
Alaska AK16$465−15%$266 – $1,258
West Virginia WV35$465−15%$245 – $613
Nevada NV17$447−18%$129 – $683
Indiana IN90$442−19%$214 – $773
Pennsylvania PA118$438−20%$155 – $1,076
North Carolina NC82$409−25%$321 – $674
Oklahoma OK60$405−26%$185 – $701
Arizona AZ54$400−26%$209 – $1,620
Wisconsin WI108$392−28%$292 – $779
Alabama AL38$390−28%$222 – $703
New York NY101$313−42%$126 – $1,116
New Mexico NM23$297−46%$188 – $823
Tennessee TN73$282−48%$131 – $640
Louisiana LA49$262−52%$173 – $544
Rhode Island RI10$225−59%$156 – $385
Maine ME18$217−60%$103 – $895
Mississippi MS46$206−62%$159 – $390
Montana MT24$197−64%$59 – $625
Arkansas AR32$167−69%$156 – $528
New Jersey NJ57$165−70%$125 – $413
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 $545.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,256$550$234 – $1,087
Children’s64$695$459 – $1,260
Critical access754$531$260 – $850
Ownership
For-profit421$744$297 – $1,940
Government504$456$226 – $786
Non-profit2,149$548$243 – $977
System affiliation
Part of a system2,567$578$260 – $1,050
Independent517$427$179 – $810

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$967
Median cash price$545
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

2,166 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $590 and the average of the middle 60% is $591; most fall between $266 and $998.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,166 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
$162$315$590$904$1,384

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($162 vs $1,384).

Of the 2,292 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,166 gave a usable cash price; 33 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 93 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,084 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,251 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,084
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded105
Hospitals that filed this code3,251

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 abdomen or retroperitoneum family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dup-Scan Artl Flo Abdl/Pel/Scrot&/Rpr Orgn Lmt|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, “Limited belly or pelvis blood vessel ultrasound (CPT 93976) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93976-limited-belly-or-pelvis-blood-vessel-ultrasound