Scans and imaging CPT 76641 Outpatient

Breast ultrasound cost in Louisville, KY

In Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN, 16 hospitals list a cash price for breast ultrasound, complete, one breast: from $139.40 to $942.66, with a median of $354.82. The lowest listed price is at Norton Children's Hospital and 4 other hospitals — $215.42 less than the median here. Across Kentucky, the median is $404.10 at 79 hospitals.

  • The median here, $354.82, is 15% below the US median of $417.80.
  • That is 3.3× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($106.81).
  • Louisville, KY has the lowest median of 2 metro areas in Kentucky with at least 10 hospitals pricing this code.
  • Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Cash prices at 16 facilities across 8 cities for code 76641, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Nov 9, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Jan 1, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026.

Lowest$139.40Norton Children's Hospital + 4 more
Median$354.82half of hospitals charge less
Highest$942.66in this market
Difference6.8×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN.

median
Lowest $139.40Highest $1,176.00
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Norton Children's Hospital one side lowest Louisville, KY HB ULTRASOUND BREASTCOMPLETE LT+1 more line at this price File of Feb 11, 2026 · source file $139.40 $697.00 $99.69–$592.45 80%
Norton Brownsboro Hospital one side lowest Louisville, KY HB ULTRASOUND BREASTCOMPLETE RT+1 more line at this price File of Feb 11, 2026 · source file $139.40 $697.00 $99.69–$642.63 80%
Norton West Louisville Hospital one side lowest Louisville, KY HB ULTRASOUND BREASTCOMPLETE RT+1 more line at this price File of Feb 11, 2026 · source file $139.40 $697.00 $99.69–$642.63 80%
Norton Women's and Kosair Children's Hospital one side lowest Louisville, KY HB ULTRASOUND BREASTCOMPLETE RT+1 more line at this price File of Feb 13, 2026 · source file $139.40 $697.00 $99.69–$642.63 80%
Norton Hospital one side lowest Louisville, KY · (502) 629-8000 HB ULTRASOUND BREASTCOMPLETE RT+1 more line at this price File of Feb 11, 2026 · source file $139.40 $697.00 $99.69–$642.63 80%
University of Louisville Hospital Louisville, KY · (502) 562-3000 US EXAM BREAST+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $215.52 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 76%
University of Louisville Hospital one side Louisville, KY · (502) 562-3000 USN BREAST UNILAT COMPLET+2 more lines at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $215.52 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 76%
Saints Mary & Elizabeth Hospital one side Louisville, KY US EXAM BREAST COMPLETE LT+2 more lines at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $323.28 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 64%
Saints Mary & Elizabeth Hospital Louisville, KY US EXAM BREAST W/DOPPLER+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $323.28 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 64%
UofL Health -Shelbyville one side Shelbyville, KY · (502) 647-4000 US EXAM BREAST COMPLETE LT+2 more lines at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $341.24 $898.00 $120.24–$898.00 62%
UofL Health -Shelbyville Shelbyville, KY · (502) 647-4000 US EXAM BREAST W/DOPPLER+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $341.24 $898.00 $120.24–$898.00 62%
Harrison County Hospital one side Corydon, IN · (812) 738-4251 Complete ultrasound scan of 1 breast File of Jul 16, 2026 · source file $368.40 $614.00 $51.67–$552.60 40%
UofL Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth Hospital one side Louisville, KY · (502) 587-4011 USN BREAST UNILAT COMPLET+2 more lines at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $404.10 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 55%
UofL Health-Louisville – South Hospital one side Shepherdville, KY USN BREAST UNILAT COMPLET+2 more lines at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $404.10 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 55%
UofL Health-Louisville – South Hospital Shepherdville, KY US EXAM BREAST W/DOPPLER+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $404.10 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 55%
UofL Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth Hospital Louisville, KY · (502) 587-4011 US BREAST COMPLETE+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $404.10 $898.00 $150.86–$898.00 55%
CHI Saint Joseph Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown, KY · (502) 350-5000 HC US Breast Bil Complete+1 more line at this price File of Sep 30, 2026 · source file $484.46 $1,148.00 $103.00–$914.96 58%
St. Vincent Salem Hospital Salem, IN · (812) 883-5881 ULS BREAST COMPLETE UNI+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $588.00 $980.00 $22.92–$717.85 40%
Baptist Health LaGrange La Grange, KY · (502) 222-5388 Complete ultrasound scan of 1 breast File of Sep 25, 2026 · source file $942.66 $1,256.88 $109.00–$2,513.76 25%
Baptist Health Louisville Louisville, KY · (502) 897-8100 Complete ultrasound scan of 1 breast File of Sep 25, 2026 · source file $942.66 $1,256.88 $86.90–$2,513.76 25%
Baptist Health Floyd New Albany, IN · (812) 944-7701 Complete ultrasound scan of 1 breast File of Sep 25, 2026 · source file $942.66 $1,256.88 $51.67–$1,885.32 25%
St. Vincent Salem Hospital both sides Salem, IN · (812) 883-5881 ULS SCREENING BREAST COMPL BI+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $588.00 $980.00 $22.92–$717.85 40%
St. Vincent Salem Hospital both sides Salem, IN · (812) 883-5881 ULS BREAST COMPL BI+1 more line at this price File of Jan 1, 2026 · source file $1,176.00 $1,960.00 $22.92–$1,435.70 40%
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.

Outpatient: lowest $139.40, median $354.82, highest $942.66 — a 6.8× difference within the same market.

Both sides : lowest $588.00, median $588.00, highest $588.00.

The two groups are not comparable and are not averaged together: a price for both sides of the body covers twice the work. Merging them is how a single published "median" ends up far above what one side actually costs.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 12 facilities here, median $269.40. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 16 of 16 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What breast ultrasound is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Breast ultrasound explained.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 76641 ($428.80). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

HospitalCash priceFile
Norton Clark Hospital Jeffersonville, INHB ULTRASOUND BREASTCOMPLETE LT $33.18 file
File Link to the hospital's own price file.