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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures

Temporary pacing through pads on the chest

CPT 92953the billing code this page is about

Electrical pulses delivered through pads on the skin to pace the heart temporarily, billed per day of this service.

Hospitals typically charge $761 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,096 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $793. Most fall between $353 and $1,488 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,096
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,096 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
$210$409$761$1,248$2,009

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($210 vs $2,009).

How the prices are spread

$133 – $180: 62 hospitals$133$180 – $244: 89 hospitals$244 – $330: 130 hospitals$244$330 – $447: 206 hospitals$447 – $605: 231 hospitals$447$605 – $819: 326 hospitals$819 – $1,108: 319 hospitals$819$1,108 – $1,500: 214 hospitals$1,500 – $2,030: 208 hospitals$1,500$2,030 – $2,748: 104 hospitals$2,030median $761price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,889 of 2,096 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$133$18062
$180$24489
$244$330130
$330$447206
$447$605231
$605$819326
$819$1,108319
$1,108$1,500214
$1,500$2,030208
$2,030$2,748104

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$675
Median cash price$761
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $761.

Alaska: median $972 across 11 hospitalsAK$972Maine: median $570 across 12 hospitalsME$570Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $377 across 10 hospitalsNH$377Washington: median $609 across 46 hospitalsWA$609Idaho: median $1,234 across 13 hospitalsID$1,234Montana: median $397 across 10 hospitalsMT$397North Dakota: median $770 across 13 hospitalsND$770Minnesota: median $629 across 49 hospitalsMN$629Illinois: median $960 across 87 hospitalsIL$960Wisconsin: median $815 across 61 hospitalsWI$815Michigan: median $784 across 60 hospitalsMI$784New York: median $774 across 67 hospitalsNY$774Massachusetts: median $1,048 across 31 hospitalsMA$1,048Oregon: median $1,021 across 27 hospitalsOR$1,021Nevada: median $718 across 21 hospitalsNV$718Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $872 across 14 hospitalsSD$872Iowa: median $484 across 40 hospitalsIA$484Indiana: median $884 across 68 hospitalsIN$884Ohio: median $896 across 98 hospitalsOH$896Pennsylvania: median $821 across 76 hospitalsPA$821New Jersey: median $855 across 33 hospitalsNJ$855Connecticut: median $465 across 10 hospitalsCT$465Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,324 across 153 hospitalsCA$1,324Utah: median $442 across 21 hospitalsUT$442Colorado: median $1,178 across 51 hospitalsCO$1,178Nebraska: median $516 across 22 hospitalsNE$516Missouri: median $686 across 59 hospitalsMO$686Kentucky: median $781 across 48 hospitalsKY$781West Virginia: median $1,092 across 19 hospitalsWV$1,092Virginia: median $514 across 63 hospitalsVA$514Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $499 across 43 hospitalsAZ$499New Mexico: median $656 across 17 hospitalsNM$656Kansas: median $333 across 32 hospitalsKS$333Arkansas: median $470 across 24 hospitalsAR$470Tennessee: median $514 across 47 hospitalsTN$514North Carolina: median $388 across 59 hospitalsNC$388South Carolina: median $1,150 across 36 hospitalsSC$1,150Oklahoma: median $521 across 44 hospitalsOK$521Louisiana: median $357 across 32 hospitalsLA$357Mississippi: median $344 across 31 hospitalsMS$344Alabama: median $567 across 32 hospitalsAL$567Georgia: median $946 across 74 hospitalsGA$946Hawaii: median $992 across 14 hospitalsHI$992Texas: median $879 across 173 hospitalsTX$879Florida: median $1,338 across 116 hospitalsFL$1,338
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $761. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL116$1,338+76%$503 – $2,586
California CA153$1,324+74%$388 – $1,825
Idaho ID13$1,234+62%$372 – $2,582
Colorado CO51$1,178+55%$485 – $2,330
South Carolina SC36$1,150+51%$515 – $1,284
West Virginia WV19$1,092+43%$490 – $1,699
Massachusetts MA31$1,048+38%$441 – $1,389
Oregon OR27$1,021+34%$836 – $1,488
Hawaii HI14$992+30%$869 – $1,562
Alaska AK11$972+28%$427 – $1,565
Illinois IL87$960+26%$461 – $1,365
Georgia GA74$946+24%$373 – $2,133
Ohio OH98$896+18%$470 – $2,224
Indiana IN68$884+16%$403 – $1,282
Texas TX173$879+15%$444 – $1,233
South Dakota SD14$872+15%$380 – $1,268
New Jersey NJ33$855+12%$724 – $3,103
Pennsylvania PA76$821+8%$287 – $1,498
Wisconsin WI61$815+7%$439 – $1,062
Michigan MI60$784+3%$463 – $1,614
Kentucky KY48$781+3%$397 – $2,628
New York NY67$774+2%$421 – $1,416
North Dakota ND13$770+1%$46 – $1,011
Nevada NV21$718−6%$383 – $2,289
Missouri MO59$686−10%$269 – $1,094
New Mexico NM17$656−14%$328 – $1,072
Minnesota MN49$629−17%$50 – $998
Washington WA46$609−20%$306 – $1,056
Maine ME12$570−25%$251 – $877
Alabama AL32$567−26%$343 – $811
Oklahoma OK44$521−32%$341 – $1,213
Nebraska NE22$516−32%$141 – $1,004
Tennessee TN47$514−32%$276 – $794
Virginia VA63$514−32%$409 – $812
Arizona AZ43$499−35%$265 – $2,993
Iowa IA40$484−36%$170 – $1,276
Arkansas AR24$470−38%$210 – $775
Connecticut CT10$465−39%$111 – $753
Utah UT21$442−42%$380 – $698
Montana MT10$397−48%$317 – $634
North Carolina NC59$388−49%$265 – $864
New Hampshire NH10$377−50%$90 – $2,023
Louisiana LA32$357−53%$192 – $736
Mississippi MS31$344−55%$187 – $489
Kansas KS32$333−56%$133 – $686
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $761.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,651$808$380 – $1,626
Children’s28$857$502 – $2,304
Critical access410$559$212 – $1,145
Ownership
For-profit288$940$444 – $2,155
Government354$596$279 – $1,145
Non-profit1,447$781$357 – $1,454
System affiliation
Part of a system1,749$781$359 – $1,562
Independent347$655$317 – $1,172

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,254
Median cash price$761
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,624 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $781 and the average of the middle 60% is $809; most fall between $359 and $1,554.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,624 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
$212$410$781$1,285$1,936

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($212 vs $1,936).

Of the 1,839 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,624 gave a usable cash price; 144 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 70 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,096 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (53%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,409 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,096
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here231
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded79
Hospitals that filed this code2,409

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 Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Temporary Transcutaneous Pacing.

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, “Temporary pacing through pads on the chest (CPT 92953) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92953-temporary-pacing-through-pads-on-the-chest