Scans and imaging CPT 76857 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Pelvic ultrasound (limited) cost in New Orleans, LA — inpatient

In New Orleans-Metairie, LA, 4 hospitals list a cash price for pelvic ultrasound (not pregnancy), limited or follow-up as an inpatient: from $86.13 to $204.61, with a median of $145.56. The lowest listed price is at St Charles Parish Hospital — $59.43 less than the median here. Across Louisiana, the median is $176.70 at 49 hospitals.

Cash prices at 4 facilities across 4 cities for code 76857, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$86.13St Charles Parish Hospital
Median$145.56half pay less
Highest$204.61in this market
Difference2.4×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 New Orleans-Metairie, LA.

median
Lowest $86.13Highest $204.61

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
St Charles Parish Hospital lowest Luling, LA · (985) 785-3644 HC US PELVIC LIMITED NON-OB $86.13 $319.00 — 73% —
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St Bernard Parish Hospital Chalmette, LA · (504) 826-9500 HC US PELVIC LIMITED NON-OB $138.88 $434.00 — 68% —
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Ochsner Clinic Foundation New Orleans, LA · (504) 842-3000 HC US PELVIC LIMITED NON-OB $152.24 $692.00 — 78% —
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The Ochsner West Campus Extended Care Hospital Jefferson, LA HC US PELVIC LIMITED NON-OB $204.61 $553.00 — 63% —
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Inpatient: lowest $86.13, median $145.56, highest $204.61 — a 2.4× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 12 facilities here, median $127.54 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

What it is

A limited pelvic ultrasound looks at one question in the pelvis, such as following up an ovarian cyst or checking the bladder.

What the price covers

The price usually covers the scan. The radiologist's reading may be billed separately.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 76857 ($372.60). 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.

Ochsner Medical Center – Kenner Kenner, LAHC US PELVIC LIMITED NON-OB $24.36 file