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Procedure price report · Fetal monitoring

Non-stress test of the fetal heart rate

CPT 59025the billing code this page is about

The fetal heart rate is recorded over a period of time while the mother rests, without inducing contractions.

Hospitals typically charge $366 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,655 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $373. Most fall between $152 and $658 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,655
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,655 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
$92$190$366$576$976

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $976).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $80: 80 hospitals$59$80 – $109: 114 hospitals$109 – $149: 192 hospitals$109$149 – $202: 189 hospitals$202 – $275: 310 hospitals$202$275 – $375: 339 hospitals$375 – $510: 465 hospitals$375$510 – $693: 349 hospitals$693 – $944: 205 hospitals$693$944 – $1,284: 148 hospitals$944median $366price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,391 of 2,655 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$8080
$80$109114
$109$149192
$149$202189
$202$275310
$275$375339
$375$510465
$510$693349
$693$944205
$944$1,284148

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$207
Median cash price$366
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.77×

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 $366.

Alaska: median $347 across 19 hospitalsAK$347Maine: median $199 across 16 hospitalsME$199Vermont: median $143 across 10 hospitalsVT$143New Hampshire: median $188 across 20 hospitalsNH$188Washington: median $291 across 66 hospitalsWA$291Idaho: median $373 across 20 hospitalsID$373Montana: median $135 across 21 hospitalsMT$135North Dakota: median $207 across 15 hospitalsND$207Minnesota: median $284 across 93 hospitalsMN$284Illinois: median $450 across 93 hospitalsIL$450Wisconsin: median $150 across 85 hospitalsWI$150Michigan: median $278 across 76 hospitalsMI$278New York: median $269 across 99 hospitalsNY$269Massachusetts: median $510 across 43 hospitalsMA$510Oregon: median $259 across 51 hospitalsOR$259Nevada: median $689 across 13 hospitalsNV$689Wyoming: median $238 across 16 hospitalsWY$238South Dakota: median $442 across 22 hospitalsSD$442Iowa: median $260 across 69 hospitalsIA$260Indiana: median $455 across 72 hospitalsIN$455Ohio: median $390 across 108 hospitalsOH$390Pennsylvania: median $433 across 94 hospitalsPA$433New Jersey: median $268 across 52 hospitalsNJ$268Connecticut: median $386 across 22 hospitalsCT$386Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $498 across 192 hospitalsCA$498Utah: median $346 across 42 hospitalsUT$346Colorado: median $375 across 61 hospitalsCO$375Nebraska: median $242 across 61 hospitalsNE$242Missouri: median $391 across 61 hospitalsMO$391Kentucky: median $329 across 47 hospitalsKY$329West Virginia: median $272 across 27 hospitalsWV$272Virginia: median $428 across 54 hospitalsVA$428Maryland: median $848 across 18 hospitalsMD$848Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $446 across 41 hospitalsAZ$446New Mexico: median $380 across 25 hospitalsNM$380Kansas: median $230 across 55 hospitalsKS$230Arkansas: median $245 across 24 hospitalsAR$245Tennessee: median $157 across 57 hospitalsTN$157North Carolina: median $310 across 85 hospitalsNC$310South Carolina: median $580 across 44 hospitalsSC$580Oklahoma: median $193 across 39 hospitalsOK$193Louisiana: median $182 across 44 hospitalsLA$182Mississippi: median $174 across 44 hospitalsMS$174Alabama: median $233 across 35 hospitalsAL$233Georgia: median $451 across 82 hospitalsGA$451Hawaii: median $429 across 13 hospitalsHI$429Texas: median $517 across 183 hospitalsTX$517Florida: median $667 across 113 hospitalsFL$667
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $366. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD18$848+132%$701 – $1,188
Nevada NV13$689+88%$129 – $863
Florida FL113$667+82%$448 – $1,167
South Carolina SC44$580+59%$271 – $645
Texas TX183$517+41%$287 – $860
Massachusetts MA43$510+39%$276 – $717
California CA192$498+36%$215 – $993
Indiana IN72$455+24%$242 – $672
Georgia GA82$451+23%$215 – $804
Illinois IL93$450+23%$180 – $846
Arizona AZ41$446+22%$264 – $1,576
South Dakota SD22$442+21%$269 – $546
Pennsylvania PA94$433+18%$233 – $752
Hawaii HI13$429+17%$34 – $553
Virginia VA54$428+17%$226 – $648
Missouri MO61$391+7%$196 – $677
Ohio OH108$390+6%$222 – $523
Connecticut CT22$386+5%$151 – $662
New Mexico NM25$380+4%$230 – $562
Colorado CO61$375+3%$225 – $624
Idaho ID20$373+2%$181 – $562
Alaska AK19$347−5%$135 – $728
Utah UT42$346−5%$306 – $422
Kentucky KY47$329−10%$130 – $808
North Carolina NC85$310−15%$175 – $500
Washington WA66$291−21%$151 – $434
Minnesota MN93$284−22%$92 – $439
Michigan MI76$278−24%$121 – $569
West Virginia WV27$272−26%$194 – $549
New York NY99$269−27%$112 – $1,153
New Jersey NJ52$268−27%$223 – $4,627
Iowa IA69$260−29%$100 – $425
Oregon OR51$259−29%$64 – $663
Arkansas AR24$245−33%$77 – $390
Nebraska NE61$242−34%$105 – $414
Wyoming WY16$238−35%$94 – $566
Alabama AL35$233−36%$99 – $565
Kansas KS55$230−37%$102 – $465
North Dakota ND15$207−43%$88 – $458
Maine ME16$199−46%$144 – $440
Oklahoma OK39$193−47%$157 – $410
New Hampshire NH20$188−49%$46 – $377
Louisiana LA44$182−50%$129 – $406
Mississippi MS44$174−52%$101 – $279
Tennessee TN57$157−57%$90 – $414
Wisconsin WI85$150−59%$129 – $414
Vermont VT10$143−61%$48 – $685
Montana MT21$135−63%$71 – $246
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not 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 $366.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,061$399$180 – $720
Children’s26$428$133 – $795
Critical access561$255$100 – $443
Ownership
For-profit335$546$250 – $1,148
Government475$254$110 – $502
Non-profit1,838$370$158 – $650
System affiliation
Part of a system2,181$386$171 – $689
Independent474$256$105 – $502

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$617
Median cash price$366
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,920 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $381 and the average of the middle 60% is $384; most fall between $164 and $645.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,920 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
$98$199$381$568$856

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $856).

Of the 2,072 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,920 gave a usable cash price; 71 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,655 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,878 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,655
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here107
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code2,878

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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Fetal monitoring family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Fetal Nonstress Test|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “Non-stress test of the fetal heart rate (CPT 59025) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-59025-non-stress-test-of-the-fetal-heart-rate