Ultrasound Abdomen Cost in Illinois
Us exam abdom complete
$221Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
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- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Illinois Medicare physician rate (2026)
-0.9% vs nationalAverage of 4 localities. Office range $107.89–$118.28.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Choosing a surgery centre over a hospital saves about $50 on the Medicare allowed amount for ultrasound abdomen. Ask whether your procedure can be done at an ambulatory surgery centre.
Medicare may pay the facility separately for this code or package it into another service on the same day, so treat the facility share as an upper bound. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Illinois
Enter a ZIP code to see which Illinois locality applies to you, whether Chicago proper, the suburban collar counties, the Metro East near St. Louis, or downstate cities like Springfield, Peoria, and Champaign.
What ultrasound abdomen costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Illinois moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again.
National vs Illinois
Where Illinois ranks for this CPT
CPT 76700 by Illinois locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| suburban chicago | $118.28 |
| chicago | $117.44 |
| east st. louis | $109.40 |
| rest of illinois | $107.89 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.913 to 1.027 in Illinois. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Ultrasound Abdomen and how Illinois is priced
Illinois uses one of the more detailed locality maps in the Midwest: Chicago has its own locality, the suburban collar counties are priced separately, the East St. Louis area carries its own locality tied to the St. Louis market, and the rest of the state shares a fourth. Approved amounts step down noticeably from the city and suburbs to downstate, so the same procedure prices differently in Chicago, Naperville, Belleville, and Springfield. This four-way split makes Illinois one of the states where a ZIP-level check genuinely changes the answer. Downstate rates align more closely with neighboring rural states than with Chicagoland.
Chicago is one of the country's great medical hubs, with multiple academic medical centers and deep specialist supply, and its suburbs support large competing systems of their own. Downstate Illinois is a different market: smaller cities like Peoria, Springfield, and Champaign serve wide rural areas, and the Metro East suburbs orient toward St. Louis providers. Where you sit on that map shapes both price and choice.
This procedure: A complete abdominal ultrasound uses sound waves, no radiation, to examine the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, spleen, and major vessels in one session. It is a first-line test for right-upper-belly pain, suspected gallstones, abnormal liver blood tests, and follow-up of known findings. You fast for several hours beforehand so the gallbladder is full, then lie on a table while a technologist glides a warm gel-covered probe over your abdomen for 20 to 30 minutes.
What Is Ultrasound Abdomen?
A complete abdominal ultrasound uses sound waves, no radiation, to examine the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, spleen, and major vessels in one session. It is a first-line test for right-upper-belly pain, suspected gallstones, abnormal liver blood tests, and follow-up of known findings. You fast for several hours beforehand so the gallbladder is full, then lie on a table while a technologist glides a warm gel-covered probe over your abdomen for 20 to 30 minutes.
What Affects the Cost
- –Hospital outpatient ultrasound departments charge notably more than independent imaging centers and many physician offices.
- –The complete study covers all upper abdominal organs; a limited single-organ study is a cheaper code when only one question needs answering.
- –The sonographer's images are read by a radiologist whose professional fee may bill separately.
- –Poor views from bowel gas or body habitus occasionally force a repeat study or escalation to CT, adding cost.
- –Findings like gallstones frequently lead to surgical consultation, making this scan a common gateway to a larger episode.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Do I need the complete study, or would a limited single-organ ultrasound answer my question at a lower price?
- 2.What are your fasting instructions so the study does not have to be repeated?
- 3.Is the radiologist reading fee included in the quote?
- 4.What does this cost at your imaging center versus the hospital location?
- 5.If views are limited, would you move to CT, and what would that cost?
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Ultrasound Abdomen in Illinois: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 76700 averages $113.25 across 4 Illinois localities, from $107.89 in REST OF ILLINOIS to $118.28 in SUBURBAN CHICAGO. The hospital physician rate averages $113.25. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Illinois into 4 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $10.39 from the lowest to highest locality. Enter a ZIP code to see which Illinois locality applies to you, whether Chicago proper, the suburban collar counties, the Metro East near St. Louis, or downstate cities like Springfield, Peoria, and Champaign.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $23 for the office physician line or $23 for the hospital physician line in Illinois. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $113.25 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $221 in a hospital outpatient department, or about $171 at an ambulatory surgery centre. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Illinois ranks #32 of 51 states on the physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $114.23).