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Dialysis access ultrasound, one arm

CPT 93986the billing code this page is about

A complete duplex ultrasound of a surgically created dialysis access site on one side, including the feeding artery, the access itself and the draining vein.

Hospitals typically charge $333 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,587 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $364. Most fall between $152 and $730 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,587
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 1,587 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
$112$179$333$611$1,194

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($112 vs $1,194).

How the prices are spread

$77 – $104: 60 hospitals$77$104 – $140: 138 hospitals$140 – $189: 161 hospitals$140$189 – $255: 194 hospitals$255 – $344: 182 hospitals$255$344 – $463: 231 hospitals$463 – $624: 148 hospitals$463$624 – $841: 139 hospitals$841 – $1,134: 84 hospitals$841$1,134 – $1,528: 93 hospitals$1,134median $333price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,430 of 1,587 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$77$10460
$104$140138
$140$189161
$189$255194
$255$344182
$344$463231
$463$624148
$624$841139
$841$1,13484
$1,134$1,52893

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$107
Median cash price$333
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $333.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $295 across 39 hospitalsWA$295Idaho: median $574 across 12 hospitalsID$574Montana: 5 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 $190 across 25 hospitalsMN$190Illinois: median $410 across 57 hospitalsIL$410Wisconsin: median $730 across 66 hospitalsWI$730Michigan: median $223 across 55 hospitalsMI$223New York: median $282 across 63 hospitalsNY$282Massachusetts: median $394 across 24 hospitalsMA$394Oregon: median $287 across 21 hospitalsOR$287Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $355 across 10 hospitalsSD$355Iowa: median $233 across 23 hospitalsIA$233Indiana: median $281 across 60 hospitalsIN$281Ohio: median $397 across 98 hospitalsOH$397Pennsylvania: median $376 across 94 hospitalsPA$376New Jersey: median $137 across 40 hospitalsNJ$137Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $588 across 108 hospitalsCA$588Utah: median $742 across 24 hospitalsUT$742Colorado: median $576 across 34 hospitalsCO$576Nebraska: median $153 across 16 hospitalsNE$153Missouri: median $436 across 36 hospitalsMO$436Kentucky: median $427 across 32 hospitalsKY$427West Virginia: median $206 across 17 hospitalsWV$206Virginia: median $196 across 40 hospitalsVA$196Maryland: median $932 across 22 hospitalsMD$932Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $344 across 20 hospitalsAZ$344New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $288 across 13 hospitalsKS$288Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $318 across 32 hospitalsTN$318North Carolina: median $296 across 34 hospitalsNC$296South Carolina: median $419 across 29 hospitalsSC$419Oklahoma: median $308 across 30 hospitalsOK$308Louisiana: median $139 across 28 hospitalsLA$139Mississippi: median $158 across 36 hospitalsMS$158Alabama: median $321 across 17 hospitalsAL$321Georgia: median $494 across 45 hospitalsGA$494Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $268 across 125 hospitalsTX$268Florida: median $403 across 92 hospitalsFL$403
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $333. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD22$932+180%$502 – $1,560
Utah UT24$742+123%$742 – $742
Wisconsin WI66$730+119%$289 – $1,297
California CA108$588+76%$139 – $907
Colorado CO34$576+73%$338 – $2,660
Idaho ID12$574+72%$254 – $752
Georgia GA45$494+48%$269 – $690
Missouri MO36$436+31%$297 – $762
Kentucky KY32$427+28%$143 – $1,129
South Carolina SC29$419+26%$202 – $598
Illinois IL57$410+23%$178 – $530
Florida FL92$403+21%$218 – $1,510
Ohio OH98$397+19%$131 – $691
Massachusetts MA24$394+18%$206 – $731
Pennsylvania PA94$376+13%$156 – $881
South Dakota SD10$355+7%$355 – $726
Arizona AZ20$344+3%$189 – $676
Alabama AL17$321−4%$199 – $425
Tennessee TN32$318−5%$131 – $451
Oklahoma OK30$308−8%$152 – $388
North Carolina NC34$296−11%$152 – $525
Washington WA39$295−11%$204 – $436
Kansas KS13$288−14%$117 – $550
Oregon OR21$287−14%$109 – $374
New York NY63$282−15%$126 – $387
Indiana IN60$281−16%$146 – $564
Texas TX125$268−20%$169 – $1,264
Iowa IA23$233−30%$83 – $267
Michigan MI55$223−33%$25 – $428
West Virginia WV17$206−38%$145 – $398
Virginia VA40$196−41%$158 – $471
Minnesota MN25$190−43%$179 – $333
Mississippi MS36$158−53%$90 – $235
Nebraska NE16$153−54%$83 – $430
Louisiana LA28$139−58%$91 – $308
New Jersey NJ40$137−59%$118 – $388
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not 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 $333.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,404$329$150 – $715
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access159$336$161 – $742
Ownership
For-profit180$487$181 – $1,271
Government188$292$140 – $525
Non-profit1,212$325$152 – $730
System affiliation
Part of a system1,401$344$155 – $742
Independent186$255$135 – $546

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$623
Median cash price$333
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

1,220 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $369 and the average of the middle 60% is $396; most fall between $161 and $742.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,220 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$196$369$691$1,207

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($118 vs $1,207).

Of the 1,272 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,220 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 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,587 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,675 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,587
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
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 — excluded55
Hospitals that filed this code1,675

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.

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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, one arm (CPT 93986) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93986-dialysis-access-ultrasound-one-arm