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Best-value hospitals for abdominal ultrasound, complete.

Ranked on a composite of cash-pay price (low is good) and CMS Care Compare rating (high is good). The top of this list is where price and quality both work in your favor. National rankings. CPT code 76700.

1
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY
5/5 CMS
$218
2
Adventist Health Glendale
Glendale, CA
4/5 CMS
$25
3
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
5/5 CMS
$227
4
Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital
Evanston, IL
5/5 CMS
$271
5
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
4/5 CMS
$95
6
WellStar Kennestone Hospital
Marietta, GA
4/5 CMS
$98
7
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
La Jolla, CA
5/5 CMS
$342
8
NYU Langone Tisch Hospital
New York, NY
5/5 CMS
$375
9
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA
5/5 CMS
$398
10
Saint Francis Medical Center
Lynwood, CA
4/5 CMS
$133

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This list filters to hospitals with a CMS rating. The full procedure page covers every hospital with prices for abdominal ultrasound, complete, including pediatric and specialty hospitals not rated by CMS.

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How "best value" is computed.

Each hospital gets two ranks: one by cash-pay price (cheapest = rank 1) and one by CMS overall rating (highest = rank 1). The two are summed; the lowest sum is the best value. Ties broken by price.

Hospitals without a published CMS rating (specialty, pediatric, cancer-only) are excluded from this ranking because the composite would be meaningless. They show up on the procedure overview page instead.

This is one heuristic. Some patients reasonably weight rating heavier than price, others the reverse. The comparison tool lets you sort by price-only, rating-only, or this same composite, and add your insurance for plan-specific numbers.