# Neck artery ultrasound (carotid), both sides in Athens, GA

Billing code `93880`. Prices for this code at 10 hospitals within 35 miles of Athens, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/athens/neck-artery-ultrasound-carotid-both-sides

HC DUPLEX SCAN EXTRACRANIAL,BILAT - CAROTID DUPLEX

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 3 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 6 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $238 |
| Typical | $1,721 |
| Dearest tenth | $2,010 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 8-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS (0.0 mi) | 1/5 | see split | $709 | $151 | $1,821 | $24 | $1,647 | 3,265 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE (34.5 mi) | 3/5 | $247 | $247 | not mentioned | $960 | $235 | $399 | 7 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER (16.3 mi) | 4/5 | $251 | $251 | not mentioned | $960 | $239 | $399 | 7 |
| Morgan Medical Center | MADISON (24.6 mi) | not rated | $580 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $250 | $580 | 9 |
| St Marys Good Samaritan Hospital | GREENSBORO (29.6 mi) | 4/5 | $862 | $862 | not mentioned | $792 | $263 | $1,096 | 108 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (28.8 mi) | 3/5 | $1,721 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,080 | $145 | $2,773 | 966 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (34.4 mi) | 2/5 | $1,842 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $884 | $288 | $2,652 | 18 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS (0.0 mi) | 4/5 | $1,883 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $884 | $314 | $2,416 | 19 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON (33.7 mi) | 3/5 | $2,004 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $884 | $288 | $2,505 | 17 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE (18.9 mi) | 4/5 | $2,063 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $884 | $264 | $2,652 | 13 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 5 of the 9 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 4 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $37 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 10,442 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

## Others in heart & vascular

- [EKG (electrocardiogram), tracing only](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/ekg-electrocardiogram-tracing-only) -- 112 hospitals, typically $105
- [Vein ultrasound, one arm or leg](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/vein-ultrasound-one-arm-or-leg) -- 112 hospitals, typically $251
- [Vein ultrasound, both arms or both legs](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/vein-ultrasound-both-arms-or-both-legs) -- 111 hospitals, typically $401
- [Echocardiogram with Doppler](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/echocardiogram-with-doppler) -- 109 hospitals, typically $875
- [Abdominal, pelvic or scrotal artery ultrasound](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/abdominal-pelvic-or-scrotal-artery-ultrasound) -- 105 hospitals, typically $434
- [Artery ultrasound, arms and legs](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/artery-ultrasound-arms-and-legs) -- 100 hospitals, typically $302
- [Follow-up heart ultrasound (echocardiogram)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/follow-up-heart-ultrasound-echocardiogram) -- 98 hospitals, typically $350
- [Cardiac stress test](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/cardiac-stress-test) -- 97 hospitals, typically $475

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-02-15 to 2026-07-28; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.