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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT)

Complete ultrasound of the aorta and pelvic arteries

CPT 93978the billing code this page is about

A full duplex ultrasound of the main abdominal artery, the large vein beside it, the pelvic vessels or a bypass graft, combining vessel images with blood flow measurements.

Hospitals typically charge $672 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,736 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $696. Most fall between $317 and $1,207 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,736
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 2,736 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
$208$368$672$1,078$1,729

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($208 vs $1,729).

How the prices are spread

$104 – $141: 41 hospitals$104$141 – $193: 56 hospitals$193 – $263: 156 hospitals$193$263 – $359: 279 hospitals$359 – $491: 288 hospitals$359$491 – $670: 390 hospitals$670 – $915: 478 hospitals$670$915 – $1,249: 398 hospitals$1,249 – $1,705: 236 hospitals$1,249$1,705 – $2,327: 144 hospitals$1,705median $672price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,466 of 2,736 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$104$14141
$141$19356
$193$263156
$263$359279
$359$491288
$491$670390
$670$915478
$915$1,249398
$1,249$1,705236
$1,705$2,327144

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$672
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $672.

Alaska: median $814 across 16 hospitalsAK$814Maine: median $361 across 18 hospitalsME$361Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $626 across 12 hospitalsNH$626Washington: median $643 across 66 hospitalsWA$643Idaho: median $724 across 20 hospitalsID$724Montana: median $164 across 20 hospitalsMT$164North Dakota: median $700 across 16 hospitalsND$700Minnesota: median $591 across 74 hospitalsMN$591Illinois: median $999 across 111 hospitalsIL$999Wisconsin: median $590 across 87 hospitalsWI$590Michigan: median $619 across 89 hospitalsMI$619New York: median $561 across 93 hospitalsNY$561Massachusetts: median $877 across 44 hospitalsMA$877Oregon: median $553 across 48 hospitalsOR$553Nevada: median $697 across 16 hospitalsNV$697Wyoming: median $544 across 10 hospitalsWY$544South Dakota: median $1,098 across 27 hospitalsSD$1,098Iowa: median $543 across 65 hospitalsIA$543Indiana: median $714 across 79 hospitalsIN$714Ohio: median $851 across 116 hospitalsOH$851Pennsylvania: median $628 across 100 hospitalsPA$628New Jersey: median $327 across 55 hospitalsNJ$327Connecticut: median $755 across 16 hospitalsCT$755Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,133 across 182 hospitalsCA$1,133Utah: median $951 across 31 hospitalsUT$951Colorado: median $664 across 57 hospitalsCO$664Nebraska: median $895 across 65 hospitalsNE$895Missouri: median $659 across 65 hospitalsMO$659Kentucky: median $748 across 47 hospitalsKY$748West Virginia: median $558 across 29 hospitalsWV$558Virginia: median $679 across 59 hospitalsVA$679Maryland: median $1,336 across 39 hospitalsMD$1,336Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $342 across 46 hospitalsAZ$342New Mexico: median $434 across 22 hospitalsNM$434Kansas: median $541 across 65 hospitalsKS$541Arkansas: median $395 across 21 hospitalsAR$395Tennessee: median $344 across 60 hospitalsTN$344North Carolina: median $513 across 77 hospitalsNC$513South Carolina: median $837 across 45 hospitalsSC$837Oklahoma: median $410 across 56 hospitalsOK$410Louisiana: median $328 across 45 hospitalsLA$328Mississippi: median $243 across 33 hospitalsMS$243Alabama: median $369 across 33 hospitalsAL$369Georgia: median $516 across 80 hospitalsGA$516Hawaii: median $689 across 13 hospitalsHI$689Texas: median $799 across 203 hospitalsTX$799Florida: median $1,151 across 144 hospitalsFL$1,151
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $672. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD39$1,336+99%$907 – $1,729
Florida FL144$1,151+71%$601 – $2,493
California CA182$1,133+69%$542 – $1,949
South Dakota SD27$1,098+63%$1,027 – $1,403
Illinois IL111$999+49%$377 – $1,544
Utah UT31$951+41%$951 – $1,119
Nebraska NE65$895+33%$508 – $1,151
Massachusetts MA44$877+30%$532 – $1,500
Ohio OH116$851+27%$511 – $995
South Carolina SC45$837+24%$750 – $1,168
Alaska AK16$814+21%$441 – $1,373
Texas TX203$799+19%$507 – $1,283
Connecticut CT16$755+12%$432 – $1,156
Kentucky KY47$748+11%$502 – $1,096
Idaho ID20$724+8%$564 – $1,303
Indiana IN79$714+6%$372 – $1,457
North Dakota ND16$700+4%$486 – $920
Nevada NV16$697+4%$355 – $1,015
Hawaii HI13$689+3%$508 – $848
Virginia VA59$679+1%$380 – $760
Colorado CO57$664−1%$432 – $923
Missouri MO65$659−2%$261 – $999
Washington WA66$643−4%$354 – $1,016
Pennsylvania PA100$628−7%$282 – $1,609
New Hampshire NH12$626−7%$50 – $1,086
Michigan MI89$619−8%$236 – $936
Minnesota MN74$591−12%$333 – $736
Wisconsin WI87$590−12%$288 – $894
New York NY93$561−17%$286 – $1,445
West Virginia WV29$558−17%$312 – $717
Oregon OR48$553−18%$88 – $1,008
Wyoming WY10$544−19%$482 – $1,200
Iowa IA65$543−19%$350 – $810
Kansas KS65$541−20%$300 – $824
Georgia GA80$516−23%$214 – $1,518
North Carolina NC77$513−24%$343 – $725
New Mexico NM22$434−35%$294 – $703
Oklahoma OK56$410−39%$207 – $688
Arkansas AR21$395−41%$226 – $658
Alabama AL33$369−45%$208 – $795
Maine ME18$361−46%$199 – $549
Tennessee TN60$344−49%$193 – $713
Arizona AZ46$342−49%$235 – $837
Louisiana LA45$328−51%$183 – $466
New Jersey NJ55$327−51%$285 – $546
Mississippi MS33$243−64%$82 – $397
Montana MT20$164−76%$58 – $747
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not 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 $672.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,035$679$323 – $1,275
Children’s47$970$561 – $1,518
Critical access644$641$275 – $1,055
Ownership
For-profit360$816$344 – $2,047
Government461$568$246 – $966
Non-profit1,905$683$328 – $1,173
System affiliation
Part of a system2,282$697$333 – $1,256
Independent454$536$243 – $984

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,222
Median cash price$672
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,921 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $700 and the average of the middle 60% is $730; most fall between $344 and $1,215.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,921 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
$221$409$700$1,098$1,701

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($221 vs $1,701).

Of the 2,037 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,921 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,736 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,887 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,736
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
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 — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,887

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dup-Scan Aorta Ivc Iliac Vascl/Bpgs Complete|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, “Complete ultrasound of the aorta and pelvic arteries (CPT 93978) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93978-complete-ultrasound-of-the-aorta-and-pelvic-arteries