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Fetal heart monitoring in labor read by a consulting doctor

CPT 59050the billing code this page is about

Covers the supervision and written interpretation of fetal heart rate monitoring during labor by a doctor other than the one delivering the baby.

Hospitals typically charge $164 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 409 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $223. Most fall between $82 and $552 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
409
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 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 409 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
$67$91$164$454$1,051

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $1,051).

How the prices are spread

$50 – $71: 28 hospitals$50$71 – $101: 69 hospitals$101 – $143: 55 hospitals$101$143 – $202: 50 hospitals$202 – $287: 32 hospitals$202$287 – $407: 32 hospitals$407 – $576: 44 hospitals$407$576 – $817: 34 hospitals$817 – $1,157: 15 hospitals$817$1,157 – $1,640: 10 hospitals$1,157median $164price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (369 of 409 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$50$7128
$71$10169
$101$14355
$143$20250
$202$28732
$287$40732
$407$57644
$576$81734
$817$1,15715
$1,157$1,64010

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $164.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $153 across 15 hospitalsIL$153Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $149 across 22 hospitalsNY$149Massachusetts: median $667 across 10 hospitalsMA$667Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $123 across 20 hospitalsIA$123Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $247 across 32 hospitalsOH$247Pennsylvania: median $34 across 14 hospitalsPA$34New Jersey: median $2,276 across 24 hospitalsNJ$2,276Connecticut: 6 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 $309 across 15 hospitalsCA$309Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $127 across 15 hospitalsNE$127Missouri: median $87 across 10 hospitalsMO$87Kentucky: median $139 across 13 hospitalsKY$139West Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $452 across 14 hospitalsNC$452South Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $82 across 12 hospitalsOK$82Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $337 across 14 hospitalsGA$337Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $454 across 23 hospitalsTX$454Florida: median $309 across 21 hospitalsFL$309
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $164. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ24$2,276+1289%$59 – $5,419
Massachusetts MA10$667+307%$142 – $1,067
Texas TX23$454+177%$429 – $509
North Carolina NC14$452+176%$452 – $461
Georgia GA14$337+106%$179 – $788
California CA15$309+89%$140 – $629
Florida FL21$309+88%$78 – $1,060
Ohio OH32$247+51%$183 – $296
Illinois IL15$153−7%$91 – $265
New York NY22$149−9%$61 – $603
Kentucky KY13$139−15%$92 – $164
Nebraska NE15$127−23%$78 – $134
Iowa IA20$123−25%$82 – $123
Missouri MO10$87−47%$82 – $383
Oklahoma OK12$82−50%$82 – $82
Pennsylvania PA14$34−79%$31 – $441
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $164.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care333$179$82 – $565
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access70$153$90 – $456
Ownership
For-profit28$175$93 – $454
Government74$148$88 – $452
Non-profit307$171$82 – $647
System affiliation
Part of a system319$183$82 – $628
Independent90$140$88 – $343

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$331
Median cash price$164
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

320 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $153 and the average of the middle 60% is $218; most fall between $82 and $509.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 320 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
$59$91$153$454$788

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($59 vs $788).

Of the 347 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 320 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

409 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 464 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted409
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code464

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Monitoring Labor Phys Written Report.

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, “Fetal heart monitoring in labor read by a consulting doctor (CPT 59050) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-59050-fetal-heart-monitoring-in-labor-read-by-a-consulting-doctor