Ultrasound of the head (brain)

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

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Provider: anthropic
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Max output tokens: 4096
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Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

US Cranial Sonogram

Payers reporting CPT 76506

Payer pricing summary

Low

$85

Average

$308

Median

$266

High

$994

Payer rate distribution

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1	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	245	$116	$124	$55	44%	31–40	$1 – $557
2	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +5 other terms	3	$162	$171	$14	8%	28–37	$159 – $191
3	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	707	$179	$198	$240	121%	26–80	$1 – $6.7k
4	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +35 other terms	484	$220	$241	$173	72%	20	$1 – $1.9k
5	Bcbs Mt fee schedule · outpatient · +2 other terms	1	$244	$244	—	—	20	$244 – $244
6	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	179	$230	$194	$184	95%	7–70	$2 – $1.6k
7	Florida Blue fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	1	$262	$262	$65	25%	4–40	$195 – $370
8	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +36 other terms	672	$182	$361	$616	170%	1–10	$1 – $16.3k
9	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	475	$290	$301	$189	63%	1–10	$30 – $2.0k
10	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	392	$120	$226	$304	135%	—	$1 – $4.8k
11	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	160	$112	$123	$48	39%	—	$30 – $390
12	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	124	$482	$485	$436	90%	—	$1 – $2.2k
13	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	110	$161	$255	$302	118%	—	$1 – $1.7k
14	Devoted facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	104	$103	$126	$319	252%	—	$93 – $4.9k
15	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	99	$178	$194	$469	242%	—	$104 – $7.1k
16	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	84	$114	$119	$40	34%	—	$56 – $385
17	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	77	$105	$138	$329	238%	—	$59 – $4.6k
18	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	65	$213	$325	$429	132%	—	$36 – $1.9k
19	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	65	$154	$159	$32	20%	—	$97 – $294
20	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	63	$144	$149	$115	77%	—	$23 – $670
21	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	62	$160	$189	$78	41%	—	$1 – $557
22	Optum fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	61	$98	$149	$102	69%	—	$32 – $468
23	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +11 other terms	44	$110	$113	$28	25%	—	$93 – $213
24	Medicaid facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	41	$91	$99	$54	55%	—	$19 – $256
25	Amerihealth Caritas facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +17 other terms	39	$99	$116	$53	46%	—	$53 – $293

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