Carotid Ultrasound Cost in Louisiana
Extracranial bilat study
$433Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
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Louisiana Medicare physician rate (2026)
-7.3% vs nationalAverage of 2 localities. Office range $170.55–$180.08.
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.
This is Medicare's separate payment to the facility on top of the physician's fee. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Louisiana
Check your ZIP code to see whether New Orleans locality pricing or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro area to Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport, and the rural parishes.
What carotid ultrasound costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Louisiana 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 Louisiana
Where Louisiana ranks for this CPT
CPT 93880 by Louisiana locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| new orleans | $180.08 |
| rest of louisiana | $170.55 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.885 to 0.941 in Louisiana. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Carotid Ultrasound and how Louisiana is priced
Louisiana is one of the states CMS splits: the New Orleans area has its own payment locality, and the rest of the state, including Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Lafayette, shares a second. New Orleans carries somewhat higher geographic adjustments, so identical procedures are approved at higher amounts there than elsewhere in the state. The two-locality structure has been stable for years and mirrors the metro's higher wage and rent levels. Everywhere outside greater New Orleans prices off the same rest-of-state factors.
New Orleans remains the state's medical center of gravity, with academic medicine and the deepest specialist bench, while Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, and Lake Charles anchor their own regions. Rural parishes, especially in the north and along the coast, have limited hospital capacity and refer heavily into the cities. Louisiana's high rates of chronic disease keep demand for procedures strong across the state.
This procedure: A bilateral carotid duplex ultrasound examines the arteries on both sides of the neck that supply the brain, measuring plaque buildup and blood flow speed to estimate narrowing. It is ordered after a stroke or mini-stroke, for a bruit heard in the neck, or before certain surgeries. A technologist moves a probe along each side of your neck for 30 to 45 minutes; it is painless, radiation-free, and requires no preparation.
What Is Carotid Ultrasound?
A bilateral carotid duplex ultrasound examines the arteries on both sides of the neck that supply the brain, measuring plaque buildup and blood flow speed to estimate narrowing. It is ordered after a stroke or mini-stroke, for a bruit heard in the neck, or before certain surgeries. A technologist moves a probe along each side of your neck for 30 to 45 minutes; it is painless, radiation-free, and requires no preparation.
What Affects the Cost
- –Hospital vascular labs charge multiples of what office-based or freestanding vascular labs charge for the same bilateral study.
- –Significant narrowing triggers surveillance scans every 6 to 12 months, making the per-scan price a recurring expense for years.
- –Findings can cascade to CT or MR angiography for confirmation, each far more expensive than the ultrasound.
- –The interpreting physician's fee is a separate component at facility-based labs.
- –Screening packages sold directly to consumers by mobile companies price this scan cheaply as cash-pay, but positive findings still funnel into insured follow-up costs.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.What indication is on my order, and is it one my insurer covers?
- 2.What does this study cost at an office vascular lab versus the hospital?
- 3.If narrowing is found, how often will I need repeat scans and at what cost each?
- 4.Would an abnormal result lead to CT or MR angiography, and what do those cost?
- 5.Is the physician interpretation included in your quoted price?
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Carotid Ultrasound in Louisiana: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 93880 averages $175.32 across 2 Louisiana localities, from $170.55 in REST OF LOUISIANA to $180.08 in NEW ORLEANS. The hospital physician rate averages $175.32. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Louisiana into 2 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $9.53 from the lowest to highest locality. Check your ZIP code to see whether New Orleans locality pricing or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro area to Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport, and the rural parishes.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $35 for the office physician line or $35 for the hospital physician line in Louisiana. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $175.32 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $433 in a hospital outpatient department. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Louisiana ranks #13 of 51 states on the physician line (7% below the national office rate of $189.05).