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Dialysis access ultrasound, both arms

CPT 93985the billing code this page is about

A complete duplex ultrasound of a surgically created dialysis access site, including the feeding artery, the access itself and the draining vein, examining both sides.

Hospitals typically charge $562 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,707 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $604. Most fall between $304 and $1,051 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,707
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,707 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
$217$332$562$949$1,529

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($217 vs $1,529).

How the prices are spread

$160 – $209: 74 hospitals$160$209 – $272: 119 hospitals$272 – $356: 183 hospitals$272$356 – $465: 236 hospitals$465 – $608: 214 hospitals$465$608 – $794: 218 hospitals$794 – $1,037: 227 hospitals$794$1,037 – $1,355: 125 hospitals$1,355 – $1,770: 97 hospitals$1,355$1,770 – $2,313: 47 hospitals$1,770median $562price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,540 of 1,707 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$160$20974
$209$272119
$272$356183
$356$465236
$465$608214
$608$794218
$794$1,037227
$1,037$1,355125
$1,355$1,77097
$1,770$2,31347

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$562
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $562.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $614 across 43 hospitalsWA$614Idaho: median $1,030 across 13 hospitalsID$1,030Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $446 across 40 hospitalsMN$446Illinois: median $683 across 56 hospitalsIL$683Wisconsin: median $785 across 74 hospitalsWI$785Michigan: median $462 across 58 hospitalsMI$462New York: median $586 across 64 hospitalsNY$586Massachusetts: median $832 across 27 hospitalsMA$832Oregon: median $438 across 25 hospitalsOR$438Nevada: median $259 across 10 hospitalsNV$259Wyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $858 across 14 hospitalsSD$858Iowa: median $499 across 27 hospitalsIA$499Indiana: median $491 across 63 hospitalsIN$491Ohio: median $691 across 100 hospitalsOH$691Pennsylvania: median $633 across 95 hospitalsPA$633New Jersey: median $326 across 51 hospitalsNJ$326Connecticut: median $453 across 11 hospitalsCT$453Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $949 across 123 hospitalsCA$949Utah: median $1,030 across 28 hospitalsUT$1,030Colorado: median $1,054 across 34 hospitalsCO$1,054Nebraska: median $367 across 19 hospitalsNE$367Missouri: median $954 across 38 hospitalsMO$954Kentucky: median $537 across 32 hospitalsKY$537West Virginia: median $434 across 18 hospitalsWV$434Virginia: median $408 across 43 hospitalsVA$408Maryland: median $1,819 across 22 hospitalsMD$1,819Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $716 across 22 hospitalsAZ$716New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $413 across 18 hospitalsKS$413Arkansas: median $163 across 14 hospitalsAR$163Tennessee: median $408 across 37 hospitalsTN$408North Carolina: median $430 across 39 hospitalsNC$430South Carolina: median $432 across 29 hospitalsSC$432Oklahoma: median $520 across 30 hospitalsOK$520Louisiana: median $299 across 32 hospitalsLA$299Mississippi: median $210 across 31 hospitalsMS$210Alabama: median $447 across 17 hospitalsAL$447Georgia: median $943 across 43 hospitalsGA$943Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $512 across 125 hospitalsTX$512Florida: median $751 across 92 hospitalsFL$751
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $562. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD22$1,819+224%$1,005 – $2,698
Colorado CO34$1,054+88%$579 – $3,989
Idaho ID13$1,030+83%$525 – $1,303
Utah UT28$1,030+83%$988 – $1,030
Missouri MO38$954+70%$388 – $1,524
California CA123$949+69%$315 – $1,325
Georgia GA43$943+68%$560 – $1,059
South Dakota SD14$858+53%$823 – $866
Massachusetts MA27$832+48%$432 – $1,183
Wisconsin WI74$785+40%$309 – $1,327
Florida FL92$751+34%$455 – $2,793
Arizona AZ22$716+27%$379 – $1,078
Ohio OH100$691+23%$405 – $904
Illinois IL56$683+22%$358 – $971
Pennsylvania PA95$633+13%$283 – $1,450
Washington WA43$614+9%$348 – $829
New York NY64$586+4%$286 – $759
Kentucky KY32$537−4%$279 – $2,259
Oklahoma OK30$520−7%$304 – $735
Texas TX125$512−9%$358 – $1,538
Iowa IA27$499−11%$219 – $624
Indiana IN63$491−13%$208 – $789
Michigan MI58$462−18%$40 – $721
Connecticut CT11$453−19%$305 – $629
Alabama AL17$447−20%$312 – $745
Minnesota MN40$446−21%$245 – $745
Oregon OR25$438−22%$229 – $777
West Virginia WV18$434−23%$306 – $841
South Carolina SC29$432−23%$432 – $794
North Carolina NC39$430−24%$328 – $1,051
Kansas KS18$413−27%$220 – $730
Tennessee TN37$408−27%$245 – $660
Virginia VA43$408−27%$328 – $579
Nebraska NE19$367−35%$191 – $1,902
New Jersey NJ51$326−42%$268 – $572
Louisiana LA32$299−47%$195 – $583
Nevada NV10$259−54%$116 – $1,015
Mississippi MS31$210−63%$163 – $310
Arkansas AR14$163−71%$117 – $627
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $562.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,497$560$303 – $1,054
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access187$552$250 – $971
Ownership
For-profit194$716$332 – $1,563
Government200$487$274 – $954
Non-profit1,307$544$307 – $1,030
System affiliation
Part of a system1,507$569$310 – $1,090
Independent200$453$272 – $818

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,019
Median cash price$562
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

1,289 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $619 and the average of the middle 60% is $655; most fall between $328 and $1,090.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,289 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
$217$379$619$986$1,621

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($217 vs $1,621).

Of the 1,344 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,289 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 37 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,707 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (43%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,792 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,707
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
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 — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,792

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 Duplex Scan Artl Infl&Ven O/F Hemo Compl Bi Std.

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, “Dialysis access ultrasound, both arms (CPT 93985) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93985-dialysis-access-ultrasound-both-arms