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Electrical testing of a breastbone defibrillator

CPT 0577Tthe billing code this page is about

Testing of an implanted defibrillator with a lead under the sternum, including triggering a heart rhythm, checking the shock threshold and sensing, and setting parameters.

Hospitals typically charge $1,310 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 173 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,305. Most fall between $680 and $2,365 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
173
States
28
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 173 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$491$777$1,310$2,173$3,125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($491 vs $3,125).

How the prices are spread

$463 – $567: 18 hospitals$463$567 – $694: 17 hospitals$694 – $850: 3 hospitals$694$850 – $1,041: 32 hospitals$1,041 – $1,275: 8 hospitals$1,041$1,275 – $1,562: 25 hospitals$1,562 – $1,912: 12 hospitals$1,562$1,912 – $2,342: 15 hospitals$2,342 – $2,868: 13 hospitals$2,342$2,868 – $3,513: 16 hospitals$2,868median $1,310price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (159 of 173 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$463$56718
$567$69417
$694$8503
$850$1,04132
$1,041$1,2758
$1,275$1,56225
$1,562$1,91212
$1,912$2,34215
$2,342$2,86813
$2,868$3,51316

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,244
Median cash price$1,310
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,310.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $2,492 across 10 hospitalsWA$2,492Idaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $508 across 16 hospitalsIN$508Ohio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $918 across 27 hospitalsCA$918Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $680 across 12 hospitalsGA$680Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,310 across 25 hospitalsTX$1,310Florida: median $2,173 across 20 hospitalsFL$2,173
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,310. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Washington WA10$2,492+90%$2,365 – $2,492
Florida FL20$2,173+66%$936 – $3,125
Texas TX25$1,3100%$491 – $1,310
California CA27$918−30%$918 – $1,639
Georgia GA12$680−48%$680 – $680
Indiana IN16$508−61%$463 – $729
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,310.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care159$1,310$680 – $2,365
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit136$1,310$680 – $2,435
System affiliation
Part of a system162$1,310$680 – $2,365
Independent11fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,578
Median cash price$1,310
Cash as a share of list, median hospital50%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 50%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

149 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,310 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,264; most fall between $680 and $2,173.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 149 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$538$914$1,310$2,173$2,986

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($538 vs $2,986).

Of the 167 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 149 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

173 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 192 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted173
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code192

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Electrophysiologic Eval Icds W/Ss Electrode.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Electrical testing of a breastbone defibrillator (CPT 0577T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0577t-electrical-testing-of-a-breastbone-defibrillator