How much does a pregnancy ultrasound (14 weeks or later) cost in the US?

Across 1,155 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $200, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $116 and $420. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $468 across the 896 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.

Why do Pregnancy Ultrasound prices vary so much?

Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 7.0 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $95 in Alabama to $966 in Maryland.

Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?

Sometimes. At 225 of the 896 hospitals that list a cash price (25%), 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 1.9 times it.

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Pregnancy Ultrasound Cost in the US (2026): What 1,155 Hospitals NegotiatedNPI VERIFIED

Across 1,155 US hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate for a pregnancy ultrasound (14 weeks or later) is $200 — 1.9× the Medicare outpatient rate of $107. The middle half of hospitals negotiated between $116 and $420; the priciest tenth negotiated more than $702, 7.0× the cheapest tenth (under $101). Hospitals that list a self-pay price ask a median of $468 (896 hospitals).

Code CPT 76805 · 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

$200

all plan types · 1,155 hospitals

Middle half

$116–$420

25th–75th percentile of hospitals

Median cash price

$468

self-pay · 896 hospitals list one

Medicare baseline

$107

CMS OPPS national · July 2026

1,155 hospitals, one bar per price band

median $200Medicare $107

$0$500$1,000

Each bar counts hospitals whose median rate falls in that price band; the last, dashed bar holds the 35 at $1,000 or more. The cheapest tenth negotiated under $101, the priciest tenth over $702 — 7.0× 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: 1,155 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. 80 of these 1,155 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)	701	$406	$241 – $726	3.8×
PPO	749	$440	$253 – $721	4.1×
HMO	509	$336	$211 – $599	3.1×
EPO	118	$488	$227 – $841	4.6×
POS	53	$379	$194 – $616	3.5×
ACA Marketplace	467	$201	$159 – $381	1.9×
Medicare Advantage	664	$116	$104 – $246	1.1×
Medicare (as listed)	657	$111	$104 – $143	1.0×
Medicaid	737	$143	$95 – $278	1.3×
Federal employees (FEP)	22	$426	$426 – $755	4.0×
Workers' comp	129	$392	$216 – $727	3.7×

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	16	$95	$94 – $98	0.9×	$210
Arizona	12	$121	$118 – $246	1.1×	$305
Arkansas	12	$137	$99 – $174	1.3×	$370
California	42	$169	$134 – $267	1.6×	$595
Colorado	7	$409	$161 – $631	3.8×	$478
Florida	48	$175	$116 – $218	1.6×	$667
Georgia	30	$196	$164 – $337	1.8×	$394
Hawaii	7	$126	$105 – $168	1.2×	$511
Idaho	12	$355	$248 – $427	3.3×	$441
Illinois	45	$377	$180 – $575	3.5×	$742
Indiana	27	$263	$206 – $378	2.5×	$635
Iowa	44	$335	$228 – $468	3.1×	$481
Kansas	41	$266	$171 – $458	2.5×	$372
Kentucky	35	$191	$105 – $354	1.8×	$358
Louisiana	25	$150	$97 – $260	1.4×	$341
Maine	9	$476	$138 – $525	4.5×	$444
Maryland	9	$966	$846 – $1,208	9.0×	$947
Massachusetts	9	$245	$129 – $371	2.3×	$1,028
Michigan	29	$113	$104 – $175	1.1×	$404
Minnesota	28	$319	$156 – $473	3.0×	$503
Mississippi	23	$97	$93 – $114	0.9×	$282
Missouri	27	$155	$104 – $222	1.5×	$577
Montana	15	$315	$235 – $460	2.9×	$485
Nebraska	29	$421	$167 – $788	3.9×	$697
Nevada	8	$158	$158 – $355	1.5×	$1,746
New Hampshire	6	$754	$278 – $871	7.1×	$1,438
New Jersey	22	$177	$128 – $200	1.7×	$201
New Mexico	17	$442	$118 – $582	4.1×	$362
New York	36	$136	$125 – $177	1.3×	$277
North Carolina	22	$139	$106 – $203	1.3×	$396
North Dakota	12	$553	$486 – $712	5.2×	$476
Ohio	57	$185	$107 – $277	1.7×	$477
Oklahoma	31	$174	$101 – $266	1.6×	$439
Oregon	22	$211	$159 – $325	2.0×	$600
Pennsylvania	56	$132	$110 – $317	1.2×	$405
Puerto Rico	12	$100	$78 – $100	0.9×	$100
Rhode Island	5	$227	$189 – $230	2.1×	$389
South Carolina	27	$106	$104 – $116	1.0×	$560
South Dakota	9	$699	$376 – $855	6.5×	$914
Tennessee	21	$102	$102 – $109	1.0×	$205
Texas	100	$220	$143 – $422	2.1×	$379
Utah	21	$709	$507 – $727	6.6×	$754
Vermont	8	$658	$365 – $813	6.2×	$807
Virginia	17	$288	$210 – $356	2.7×	$404
Washington	13	$427	$198 – $554	4.0×	$693
West Virginia	8	$454	$108 – $810	4.2×	$438
Wisconsin	26	$360	$221 – $506	3.4×	$547
Wyoming	10	$685	$517 – $981	6.4×	$727

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 pregnancy ultrasound (14 weeks or later) cost in the US?: Across 1,155 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $200, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $116 and $420. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $468 across the 896 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.
Why do Pregnancy Ultrasound prices vary so much?: Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 7.0 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $95 in Alabama to $966 in Maryland.
Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?: Sometimes. At 225 of the 896 hospitals that list a cash price (25%), 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 1.9 times it.

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