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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic cardiovascular procedures

Electric shock to reset heart rhythm, external

CPT 92960the billing code this page is about

A controlled electrical shock delivered through pads or paddles on the chest to return an abnormal heart rhythm to normal.

Hospitals typically charge $1,026 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,291 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,079. Most fall between $458 and $1,975 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,291
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,291 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
$293$541$1,026$1,755$2,677

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($293 vs $2,677).

How the prices are spread

$196 – $264: 134 hospitals$196$264 – $356: 140 hospitals$356 – $481: 255 hospitals$356$481 – $648: 303 hospitals$648 – $874: 414 hospitals$648$874 – $1,179: 464 hospitals$1,179 – $1,590: 465 hospitals$1,179$1,590 – $2,144: 413 hospitals$2,144 – $2,891: 254 hospitals$2,144$2,891 – $3,899: 123 hospitals$2,891median $1,026price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,965 of 3,291 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$196$264134
$264$356140
$356$481255
$481$648303
$648$874414
$874$1,179464
$1,179$1,590465
$1,590$2,144413
$2,144$2,891254
$2,891$3,899123

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$675
Median cash price$1,026
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.52×

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 $1,026.

Alaska: median $1,117 across 18 hospitalsAK$1,117Maine: median $474 across 25 hospitalsME$474Vermont: median $591 across 14 hospitalsVT$591New Hampshire: median $439 across 24 hospitalsNH$439Washington: median $953 across 77 hospitalsWA$953Idaho: median $1,485 across 22 hospitalsID$1,485Montana: median $512 across 29 hospitalsMT$512North Dakota: median $829 across 24 hospitalsND$829Minnesota: median $840 across 106 hospitalsMN$840Illinois: median $1,145 across 125 hospitalsIL$1,145Wisconsin: median $867 across 103 hospitalsWI$867Michigan: median $905 across 93 hospitalsMI$905New York: median $994 across 113 hospitalsNY$994Massachusetts: median $1,099 across 50 hospitalsMA$1,099Oregon: median $678 across 55 hospitalsOR$678Nevada: median $1,269 across 24 hospitalsNV$1,269Wyoming: median $817 across 16 hospitalsWY$817South Dakota: median $920 across 27 hospitalsSD$920Iowa: median $652 across 84 hospitalsIA$652Indiana: median $1,076 across 95 hospitalsIN$1,076Ohio: median $1,829 across 131 hospitalsOH$1,829Pennsylvania: median $1,096 across 125 hospitalsPA$1,096New Jersey: median $844 across 58 hospitalsNJ$844Connecticut: median $940 across 22 hospitalsCT$940Rhode Island: median $1,026 across 10 hospitalsRI$1,026California: median $1,795 across 209 hospitalsCA$1,795Utah: median $1,205 across 38 hospitalsUT$1,205Colorado: median $1,264 across 71 hospitalsCO$1,264Nebraska: median $1,238 across 74 hospitalsNE$1,238Missouri: median $862 across 77 hospitalsMO$862Kentucky: median $957 across 66 hospitalsKY$957West Virginia: median $1,014 across 37 hospitalsWV$1,014Virginia: median $1,145 across 71 hospitalsVA$1,145Maryland: median $288 across 15 hospitalsMD$288Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $946 across 56 hospitalsAZ$946New Mexico: median $858 across 29 hospitalsNM$858Kansas: median $549 across 81 hospitalsKS$549Arkansas: median $439 across 37 hospitalsAR$439Tennessee: median $551 across 78 hospitalsTN$551North Carolina: median $911 across 92 hospitalsNC$911South Carolina: median $1,602 across 51 hospitalsSC$1,602Oklahoma: median $935 across 62 hospitalsOK$935Louisiana: median $664 across 52 hospitalsLA$664Mississippi: median $457 across 55 hospitalsMS$457Alabama: median $706 across 41 hospitalsAL$706Georgia: median $1,471 across 103 hospitalsGA$1,471Hawaii: median $1,183 across 19 hospitalsHI$1,183Texas: median $1,332 across 233 hospitalsTX$1,332Florida: median $1,990 across 167 hospitalsFL$1,990
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,026. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL167$1,990+94%$1,060 – $3,040
Ohio OH131$1,829+78%$804 – $2,446
California CA209$1,795+75%$708 – $3,303
South Carolina SC51$1,602+56%$911 – $1,669
Idaho ID22$1,485+45%$244 – $2,582
Georgia GA103$1,471+43%$499 – $2,477
Texas TX233$1,332+30%$741 – $2,370
Nevada NV24$1,269+24%$618 – $1,716
Colorado CO71$1,264+23%$493 – $4,014
Nebraska NE74$1,238+21%$377 – $1,856
Utah UT38$1,205+17%$932 – $1,418
Hawaii HI19$1,183+15%$915 – $1,724
Virginia VA71$1,145+12%$543 – $1,535
Illinois IL125$1,145+12%$483 – $1,851
Alaska AK18$1,117+9%$761 – $1,998
Massachusetts MA50$1,099+7%$581 – $2,093
Pennsylvania PA125$1,096+7%$462 – $2,001
Indiana IN95$1,076+5%$574 – $2,262
Rhode Island RI10$1,0260%$517 – $2,709
West Virginia WV37$1,014−1%$435 – $1,298
New York NY113$994−3%$477 – $2,610
Kentucky KY66$957−7%$559 – $2,261
Washington WA77$953−7%$370 – $1,340
Arizona AZ56$946−8%$423 – $2,402
Connecticut CT22$940−8%$670 – $1,400
Oklahoma OK62$935−9%$457 – $1,517
South Dakota SD27$920−10%$536 – $1,675
North Carolina NC92$911−11%$548 – $1,288
Michigan MI93$905−12%$420 – $1,370
Wisconsin WI103$867−16%$501 – $1,433
Missouri MO77$862−16%$492 – $1,758
New Mexico NM29$858−16%$341 – $1,482
New Jersey NJ58$844−18%$715 – $1,032
Minnesota MN106$840−18%$412 – $1,365
North Dakota ND24$829−19%$442 – $1,514
Wyoming WY16$817−20%$139 – $1,572
Alabama AL41$706−31%$480 – $1,326
Oregon OR55$678−34%$282 – $1,552
Louisiana LA52$664−35%$354 – $1,194
Iowa IA84$652−36%$331 – $1,320
Vermont VT14$591−42%$268 – $2,371
Tennessee TN78$551−46%$334 – $1,087
Kansas KS81$549−47%$267 – $887
Montana MT29$512−50%$181 – $951
Maine ME25$474−54%$271 – $719
Mississippi MS55$457−55%$196 – $1,366
New Hampshire NH24$439−57%$209 – $2,895
Arkansas AR37$439−57%$262 – $739
Maryland MD15$288−72%$104 – $528
Delaware DE7not 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 $1,026.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,346$1,145$560 – $2,168
Children’s51$1,462$698 – $2,792
Critical access884$678$305 – $1,343
Ownership
For-profit467$1,482$700 – $2,895
Government604$689$333 – $1,357
Non-profit2,210$1,058$480 – $1,890
System affiliation
Part of a system2,682$1,108$514 – $2,080
Independent609$705$278 – $1,366

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,840
Median cash price$1,026
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

2,390 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,122 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,170; most fall between $510 and $1,976.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,390 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
$324$618$1,122$1,789$2,582

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($324 vs $2,582).

Of the 2,546 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,390 gave a usable cash price; 54 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 102 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,291 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,484 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,291
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,484

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 PR Cardioversion, Elective;Extern.

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, “Electric shock to reset heart rhythm, external (CPT 92960) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92960-electric-shock-to-reset-heart-rhythm-external