How much does a complete abdominal ultrasound cost in the US?

Across 1,213 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $217, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $121 and $521. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $578 across the 964 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.

Why do Abdominal Ultrasound prices vary so much?

Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 8.3 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $90 in Puerto Rico to $912 in South Dakota.

Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?

Sometimes. At 234 of the 964 hospitals that list a cash price (24%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.

What is the Medicare rate shown here?

$107 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 2.0 times it.

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Abdominal Ultrasound Cost in the US (2026): What 1,213 Hospitals NegotiatedNPI VERIFIED

Across 1,213 US hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate for a complete abdominal ultrasound is $217 — 2.0× the Medicare outpatient rate of $107. The middle half of hospitals negotiated between $121 and $521; the priciest tenth negotiated more than $848, 8.3× the cheapest tenth (under $102). Hospitals that list a self-pay price ask a median of $578 (964 hospitals).

Code CPT 76700 · Source: hospital machine-readable files (45 CFR §180), file dates 2022-11-12 to 2026-09-28 (median 2026-04-01) · Medicare baseline: CMS OPPS Addendum B, July 2026 · Data extracted 2026-10-06 · Page updated 2026-10-07

National median

$217

all plan types · 1,213 hospitals

Middle half

$121–$521

25th–75th percentile of hospitals

Median cash price

$578

self-pay · 964 hospitals list one

Medicare baseline

$107

CMS OPPS national · July 2026

1,213 hospitals, one bar per price band

median $217Medicare $107

$0$1,000$2,000

Each bar counts hospitals whose median rate falls in that price band; the last, dashed bar holds the 4 at $2,000 or more. The cheapest tenth negotiated under $102, the priciest tenth over $848 — 8.3× apart for the same procedure.

These are contract reference rates, not your bill. A median across hospitals is not a quote for your plan or network. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network status.

This is the hospital's facility fee. The radiologist who reads the images bills separately.

Coverage: 1,213 of the 5,419 hospitals in the CMS roster have an identity-verified price file with this procedure in our data. It is not a random sample, and a hospital missing here has not been judged non-compliant — we may simply not have its file yet. 90 of these 1,213 hospital files were more than 12 months old at extraction — hospitals must update yearly; we keep the figures and say so rather than hide them.

By insurance type

Insurance type	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare
Commercial (plan type not stated)	741	$468	$241 – $850	4.4×
PPO	783	$520	$289 – $886	4.9×
HMO	529	$369	$230 – $707	3.5×
EPO	128	$565	$220 – $929	5.3×
POS	60	$387	$182 – $781	3.6×
ACA Marketplace	477	$204	$159 – $441	1.9×
Medicare Advantage	700	$117	$104 – $318	1.1×
Medicare (as listed)	674	$111	$104 – $159	1.0×
Medicaid	769	$177	$106 – $377	1.7×
Federal employees (FEP)	22	$474	$464 – $861	4.4×
Workers' comp	134	$421	$221 – $832	3.9×

Plan types are grouped from each hospital's plan names. Each figure is a median of hospital-level medians; types with fewer than 20 hospitals are left out.

By state

State	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare	Median cash
Alabama	17	$96	$94 – $100	0.9×	$358
Arizona	12	$121	$118 – $264	1.1×	$358
Arkansas	15	$151	$112 – $213	1.4×	$504
California	44	$149	$134 – $297	1.4×	$586
Colorado	7	$468	$161 – $932	4.4×	$805
Florida	49	$180	$117 – $220	1.7×	$845
Georgia	32	$190	$180 – $589	1.8×	$665
Hawaii	7	$129	$105 – $191	1.2×	$501
Idaho	11	$357	$346 – $520	3.3×	$491
Illinois	47	$464	$210 – $796	4.3×	$915
Indiana	27	$274	$216 – $407	2.6×	$655
Iowa	47	$440	$323 – $567	4.1×	$611
Kansas	44	$328	$203 – $531	3.1×	$412
Kentucky	36	$342	$144 – $603	3.2×	$688
Louisiana	26	$163	$110 – $369	1.5×	$504
Maine	9	$447	$115 – $519	4.2×	$441
Maryland	9	$855	$748 – $1,069	8.0×	$837
Massachusetts	9	$207	$129 – $318	1.9×	$1,001
Michigan	31	$113	$104 – $181	1.1×	$481
Minnesota	30	$411	$286 – $711	3.8×	$611
Mississippi	24	$97	$91 – $116	0.9×	$474
Missouri	29	$141	$107 – $317	1.3×	$778
Montana	19	$434	$339 – $625	4.1×	$528
Nebraska	31	$541	$310 – $846	5.1×	$817
Nevada	8	$153	$153 – $351	1.4×	$1,642
New Hampshire	6	$659	$251 – $785	6.2×	$1,987
New Jersey	23	$177	$124 – $196	1.7×	$236
New Mexico	17	$532	$118 – $744	5.0×	$480
New York	39	$144	$128 – $242	1.3×	$425
North Carolina	22	$175	$107 – $317	1.6×	$661
North Dakota	14	$492	$422 – $630	4.6×	$484
Ohio	58	$171	$109 – $274	1.6×	$640
Oklahoma	35	$194	$101 – $353	1.8×	$470
Oregon	22	$201	$158 – $324	1.9×	$744
Pennsylvania	58	$137	$114 – $259	1.3×	$560
Puerto Rico	12	$90	$85 – $92	0.8×	$100
Rhode Island	5	$227	$218 – $230	2.1×	$389
South Carolina	27	$105	$104 – $124	1.0×	$1,009
South Dakota	12	$912	$884 – $1,292	8.5×	$1,227
Tennessee	23	$102	$102 – $131	1.0×	$277
Texas	104	$247	$143 – $525	2.3×	$455
Utah	21	$771	$690 – $790	7.2×	$820
Vermont	9	$720	$569 – $1,114	6.7×	$911
Virginia	19	$288	$194 – $569	2.7×	$859
Washington	16	$405	$217 – $566	3.8×	$706
West Virginia	7	$626	$97 – $846	5.9×	$516
Wisconsin	27	$373	$266 – $572	3.5×	$550
Wyoming	9	$853	$781 – $1,147	8.0×	$1,030

middle half of hospitalsstate medianMedicare rate · a dotted end means the range runs past $1,000

States with at least 5 hospitals in our data (48 states). 3 smaller states are counted in the national figures but not listed — a median of two or three hospitals says more about those hospitals than about the state.

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Hospital-level and insurer-level rates for this procedure are in the full dataset. A free three-procedure sample (brain MRI, head CT, diagnostic colonoscopy) is open under CC BY 4.0: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23199844 · Kaggle.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a complete abdominal ultrasound cost in the US?: Across 1,213 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $217, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $121 and $521. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $578 across the 964 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.
Why do Abdominal Ultrasound prices vary so much?: Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 8.3 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $90 in Puerto Rico to $912 in South Dakota.
Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?: Sometimes. At 234 of the 964 hospitals that list a cash price (24%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.
What is the Medicare rate shown here?: $107 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 2.0 times it.

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median $448 · 1,215 hospitals

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