Scans and imaging CPT 76882 Outpatient

Limb ultrasound (limited) cost in Helena, MT

In Helena, MT, 2 hospitals list a cash price for limited ultrasound of an arm or leg (non-vascular): from $149.85 to $218.00, with a median of $183.93. The lowest listed price is at St. Peter's Health — $34.08 less than the median here. Across Montana, the median is $209.26 at 22 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 76882, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Dec 11, 2025 and Dec 11, 2025.

Lowest$149.85St. Peter's Health

Median$183.93half of hospitals charge less

Highest$218.00in this market

Difference1.5×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 Helena, MT.

median

Lowest $106.52Highest $218.00

one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	Insurers pay	Off list
St. Peter's Health lowest Helena, MT · (406) 442-2480 OTHER IMAGING SERVICES - ULTRASOUND source file	$149.85	$176.30	$113.89	15%
St. Peter's Health one side Helena, MT · (406) 442-2480 HC US LIMITED JOINT OR NONVASC EXTREM UNILATERAL source file	$150.75	$177.35	$67.45	15%
Billings Clinic Broadwater one side Townsend, MT · (406) 266-3186 Limited ultrasound scan of joint or other extremity structure except blood vessels+1 more line at this price File of Dec 11, 2025 · source file	$218.00	$218.00	$152.60–$218.00	—
St. Peter's Health both sides Helena, MT · (406) 442-2480 HC US LIMITED JOINT OR NONVASC EXTREM BILATERAL source file	$106.52	$125.32	$67.45	15%

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.

At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More

No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

Outpatient: lowest $149.85, median $183.93, highest $218.00 — a 1.5× difference within the same market.

Both sides : lowest $106.52, median $106.52, highest $106.52.

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 $150.75. 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 0 of 2 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 it is

A limited limb ultrasound looks at one area of an arm or leg, such as a lump, a tendon, a cyst behind the knee or fluid in a joint. It is not a vein or artery study.

What the price covers

The hospital price usually covers the ultrasound. The radiologist's reading is often billed separately.