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Procedure price report · Electrographic cardiac monitoring

In-person check, single-chamber leadless pacemaker

CPT 0826Tthe billing code this page is about

A face-to-face session in which the settings of a single-chamber wireless pacemaker are tested and adjusted; the charge covers one evaluation visit.

Hospitals typically charge $69 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 279 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $80. Most fall between $38 and $189 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
279
States
38
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 279 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
$23$46$69$135$433

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $433).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $25: 23 hospitals$18$25 – $35: 19 hospitals$35 – $49: 32 hospitals$35$49 – $69: 60 hospitals$69 – $97: 44 hospitals$69$97 – $135: 18 hospitals$135 – $188: 14 hospitals$135$188 – $263: 13 hospitals$263 – $368: 13 hospitals$263$368 – $514: 23 hospitals$368median $69price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (259 of 279 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$2523
$25$3519
$35$4932
$49$6960
$69$9744
$97$13518
$135$18814
$188$26313
$263$36813
$368$51423

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$69
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.81×

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 $69.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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: median $66 across 13 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: median $305 across 22 hospitalsIN$305Ohio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $55 across 13 hospitalsPA$55New Jersey: median $19 across 18 hospitalsNJ$19Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $69 across 31 hospitalsCA$69Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $88 across 15 hospitalsCO$88Nebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $57 across 12 hospitalsVA$57Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $514 across 12 hospitalsTN$514North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $23 across 22 hospitalsGA$23Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $35 across 10 hospitalsTX$35Florida: median $74 across 15 hospitalsFL$74
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $69. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Tennessee TN12$514+646%$504 – $514
Indiana IN22$305+342%$88 – $433
Colorado CO15$88+27%$34 – $172
Florida FL15$74+7%$74 – $83
California CA31$690%$69 – $113
Iowa IA13$66−4%$66 – $66
Virginia VA12$57−17%$48 – $514
Pennsylvania PA13$55−20%$47 – $180
Texas TX10$35−50%$35 – $58
Georgia GA22$23−67%$23 – $294
New Jersey NJ18$19−73%$17 – $50
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $69.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care256$69$35 – $172
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit20$72$23 – $172
Government25$58$23 – $82
Non-profit232$69$43 – $189
System affiliation
Part of a system263$69$38 – $180
Independent16fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$123
Median cash price$69
Cash as a share of list, median hospital52%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 48%. 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

200 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $74 and the average of the middle 60% is $83; most fall between $46 and $172.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 200 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
$29$49$74$128$433

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $433).

Of the 213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 200 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

279 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 307 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted279
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code307

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 Electrographic cardiac monitoring family.

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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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “In-person check, single-chamber leadless pacemaker (CPT 0826T) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-0826t-in-person-check-single-chamber-leadless-pacemaker