# Vein ultrasound, both arms or both legs in Savannah, GA

Billing code `93970`. Prices for this code at 7 hospitals within 35 miles of Savannah, 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/savannah/vein-ultrasound-both-arms-or-both-legs

HC EXTREMITY STUDY - US UPPER EXTREMITY VEINS BILATERAL DIALYSIS

## 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, 4 publish a facility charge; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $89 |
| Typical | $292 |
| Highest reported | $620 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty Regional Medical Center | HINESVILLE (30.4 mi) | not rated | $89 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $408 | $83 | $408 | 12 |
| Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center | HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC (27.7 mi) | 2/5 | $233 | $233 | not mentioned | $274 | $222 | $2,663 | 25 |
| Coastal Carolina Hospital | HARDEEVILLE, SC (15.2 mi) | 4/5 | $233 | $233 | not mentioned | $274 | $222 | $2,631 | 25 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH (3.0 mi) | 2/5 | $292 | $292 | not mentioned | $655 | $209 | $1,120 | 9 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH (5.7 mi) | 2/5 | $292 | $292 | not mentioned | $655 | $209 | $1,120 | 9 |
| Effingham Health System | SPRINGFIELD (30.9 mi) | not rated | $617 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,433 | $590 | $2,095 | 26 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH (5.6 mi) | 1/5 | $620 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $2,750 | $402 | $2,475 | 46 |

## 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 all 7 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is HIGHER than what that hospital typically accepts from an insurer. Self-pay is not automatically the cheaper option.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $33 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 13,737 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.

2 of these 7 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center, Coastal Carolina Hospital.

## 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
- [Neck artery ultrasound (carotid), both sides](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neck-artery-ultrasound-carotid-both-sides) -- 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 2026-03-01 to 2026-04-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.