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

Limited ultrasound of the aorta or pelvic arteries

CPT 93979the billing code this page is about

A duplex ultrasound limited to one side or to part of the main abdominal artery, the large vein beside it, the pelvic vessels or a bypass graft.

Hospitals typically charge $430 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,321 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $450. Most fall between $191 and $821 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,321
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 2,321 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
$118$228$430$716$1,126

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $1,126).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $94: 24 hospitals$69$94 – $128: 158 hospitals$128 – $175: 135 hospitals$128$175 – $240: 192 hospitals$240 – $327: 246 hospitals$240$327 – $447: 341 hospitals$447 – $611: 368 hospitals$447$611 – $835: 285 hospitals$835 – $1,140: 231 hospitals$835$1,140 – $1,558: 111 hospitals$1,140median $430price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,091 of 2,321 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$9424
$94$128158
$128$175135
$175$240192
$240$327246
$327$447341
$447$611368
$611$835285
$835$1,140231
$1,140$1,558111

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$430
Cash as a multiple of Medicare4.0×

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 $430.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $182 across 16 hospitalsME$182Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $527 across 13 hospitalsNH$527Washington: median $468 across 59 hospitalsWA$468Idaho: median $555 across 19 hospitalsID$555Montana: median $94 across 18 hospitalsMT$94North Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $369 across 67 hospitalsMN$369Illinois: median $605 across 94 hospitalsIL$605Wisconsin: median $395 across 77 hospitalsWI$395Michigan: median $356 across 79 hospitalsMI$356New York: median $316 across 80 hospitalsNY$316Massachusetts: median $499 across 36 hospitalsMA$499Oregon: median $335 across 40 hospitalsOR$335Nevada: median $216 across 10 hospitalsNV$216Wyoming: median $389 across 10 hospitalsWY$389South Dakota: median $572 across 16 hospitalsSD$572Iowa: median $393 across 50 hospitalsIA$393Indiana: median $317 across 56 hospitalsIN$317Ohio: median $509 across 101 hospitalsOH$509Pennsylvania: median $360 across 96 hospitalsPA$360New Jersey: median $142 across 55 hospitalsNJ$142Connecticut: median $565 across 19 hospitalsCT$565Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $769 across 161 hospitalsCA$769Utah: median $417 across 30 hospitalsUT$417Colorado: median $432 across 46 hospitalsCO$432Nebraska: median $711 across 55 hospitalsNE$711Missouri: median $471 across 56 hospitalsMO$471Kentucky: median $427 across 37 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $363 across 19 hospitalsWV$363Virginia: median $356 across 49 hospitalsVA$356Maryland: median $812 across 35 hospitalsMD$812Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $166 across 40 hospitalsAZ$166New Mexico: median $270 across 18 hospitalsNM$270Kansas: median $459 across 39 hospitalsKS$459Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $230 across 50 hospitalsTN$230North Carolina: median $386 across 64 hospitalsNC$386South Carolina: median $597 across 46 hospitalsSC$597Oklahoma: median $253 across 45 hospitalsOK$253Louisiana: median $219 across 34 hospitalsLA$219Mississippi: median $205 across 35 hospitalsMS$205Alabama: median $408 across 31 hospitalsAL$408Georgia: median $338 across 68 hospitalsGA$338Hawaii: median $418 across 13 hospitalsHI$418Texas: median $596 across 177 hospitalsTX$596Florida: median $747 across 114 hospitalsFL$747
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $430. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD35$812+89%$493 – $1,007
California CA161$769+79%$318 – $1,499
Florida FL114$747+74%$398 – $1,762
Nebraska NE55$711+65%$390 – $936
Illinois IL94$605+41%$218 – $990
South Carolina SC46$597+39%$289 – $764
Texas TX177$596+39%$324 – $1,385
South Dakota SD16$572+33%$292 – $858
Connecticut CT19$565+31%$276 – $826
Idaho ID19$555+29%$417 – $596
New Hampshire NH13$527+22%$32 – $1,199
Ohio OH101$509+18%$276 – $707
Massachusetts MA36$499+16%$350 – $1,006
Missouri MO56$471+9%$215 – $774
Washington WA59$468+9%$256 – $681
Kansas KS39$459+7%$173 – $718
Colorado CO46$432+1%$236 – $649
Kentucky KY37$427−1%$228 – $908
Hawaii HI13$418−3%$375 – $642
Utah UT30$417−3%$417 – $491
Alabama AL31$408−5%$227 – $774
Wisconsin WI77$395−8%$186 – $681
Iowa IA50$393−9%$121 – $635
Wyoming WY10$389−10%$228 – $778
North Carolina NC64$386−10%$270 – $507
Minnesota MN67$369−14%$169 – $716
West Virginia WV19$363−16%$234 – $592
Pennsylvania PA96$360−16%$157 – $972
Michigan MI79$356−17%$112 – $666
Virginia VA49$356−17%$230 – $524
Georgia GA68$338−22%$161 – $947
Oregon OR40$335−22%$42 – $568
Indiana IN56$317−26%$138 – $891
New York NY80$316−27%$126 – $802
New Mexico NM18$270−37%$205 – $420
Oklahoma OK45$253−41%$125 – $427
Tennessee TN50$230−47%$197 – $371
Louisiana LA34$219−49%$135 – $382
Nevada NV10$216−50%$80 – $489
Mississippi MS35$205−52%$111 – $246
Maine ME16$182−58%$103 – $614
Arizona AZ40$166−61%$127 – $701
New Jersey NJ55$142−67%$118 – $434
Montana MT18$94−78%$36 – $619
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
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 $430.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,796$427$191 – $849
Children’s44$657$408 – $1,161
Critical access472$425$186 – $761
Ownership
For-profit290$557$196 – $1,500
Government371$408$205 – $711
Non-profit1,651$428$188 – $772
System affiliation
Part of a system1,976$438$200 – $849
Independent345$367$157 – $713

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$786
Median cash price$430
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

1,682 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $447 and the average of the middle 60% is $471; most fall between $217 and $846.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,682 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
$124$246$447$725$1,126

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $1,126).

Of the 1,782 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,682 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 69 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,321 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (59%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,462 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,321
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code2,462

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 Uni/Lmtd|TECHNICAL 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 ultrasound of the aorta or pelvic arteries (CPT 93979) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93979-limited-ultrasound-of-the-aorta-or-pelvic-arteries