Scans and imaging CPT 76642 Outpatient

Breast ultrasound (limited) cost in San Antonio, TX

In San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX, 1 hospital lists a cash price for breast ultrasound, limited (one breast or one area) (one side of the body): from $146.00 to $146.00, with a median of $146.00. Across Texas, the median is $346.19 at 94 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 76642, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 24, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Oct 14, 2025 and Oct 14, 2025.

Lowest$146.00University Health System
Median$146.00half pay less
Highest$146.00in this market
Difference1.0×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 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX.

median
Lowest $146.00Highest $157.25
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
University Health System one side lowest San Antonio, TX · (210) 358-2000 HC ULTRASOUND BREAST LIMITED - US BREAST LEFT LIMI $146.00 $584.00 $82.68–$1,460.00 75% Oct 14, 2025
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University Health System one side lowest San Antonio, TX · (210) 358-2000 HC ULTRASOUND BREAST LIMITED - US BREAST RIGHT LIM $146.00 $584.00 $82.68–$1,460.00 75% Oct 14, 2025
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University Health System both sides San Antonio, TX · (210) 358-2000 HC ULTRASOUND BREAST LIMITED - US BREAST BILATERAL $157.25 $629.00 $82.68–$1,572.50 75% Oct 14, 2025
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One side of the body : lowest $146.00, median $146.00, highest $146.00.

Both sides : lowest $157.25, median $157.25, highest $157.25.

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 1 facility here, median $146.00. 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 the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated. 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 it is

A limited breast ultrasound looks at one breast or one area, usually a lump or a finding on a mammogram.

What the price covers

The price usually covers the scan and may or may not include the radiologist's reading.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 76642 ($346.09). 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.

Santa Rosa Hospital - Westover Hills San Antonio, TXHC 76642 US BREAST,UNILAT, LMTD $26.07 file