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Procedure price report · Conversion of cardiac rhythm

Electric shock to reset heart rhythm, inside the heart

CPT 92961the billing code this page is about

A controlled electrical shock delivered through a catheter placed inside the heart to return an abnormal rhythm to normal.

Hospitals typically charge $1,082 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,095 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,122. Most fall between $529 and $2,087 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,095
States
48
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 1,095 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
$384$622$1,082$1,798$2,860

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($384 vs $2,860).

How the prices are spread

$269 – $355: 35 hospitals$269$355 – $469: 91 hospitals$469 – $621: 93 hospitals$469$621 – $820: 140 hospitals$820 – $1,085: 136 hospitals$820$1,085 – $1,434: 168 hospitals$1,434 – $1,896: 124 hospitals$1,434$1,896 – $2,507: 86 hospitals$2,507 – $3,314: 82 hospitals$2,507$3,314 – $4,381: 32 hospitals$3,314median $1,082price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (987 of 1,095 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$269$35535
$355$46991
$469$62193
$621$820140
$820$1,085136
$1,085$1,434168
$1,434$1,896124
$1,896$2,50786
$2,507$3,31482
$3,314$4,38132

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$675
Median cash price$1,082
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.60×

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 $1,082.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,048 across 21 hospitalsWA$1,048Idaho: median $2,000 across 12 hospitalsID$2,000Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $595 across 20 hospitalsMN$595Illinois: median $1,270 across 34 hospitalsIL$1,270Wisconsin: median $1,215 across 34 hospitalsWI$1,215Michigan: median $437 across 35 hospitalsMI$437New York: median $774 across 47 hospitalsNY$774Massachusetts: median $2,032 across 18 hospitalsMA$2,032Oregon: median $1,158 across 21 hospitalsOR$1,158Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $884 across 21 hospitalsIA$884Indiana: median $1,418 across 33 hospitalsIN$1,418Ohio: median $1,707 across 52 hospitalsOH$1,707Pennsylvania: median $865 across 57 hospitalsPA$865New Jersey: median $766 across 32 hospitalsNJ$766Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,576 across 104 hospitalsCA$1,576Utah: median $867 across 25 hospitalsUT$867Colorado: median $2,512 across 22 hospitalsCO$2,512Nebraska: median $924 across 12 hospitalsNE$924Missouri: median $1,328 across 22 hospitalsMO$1,328Kentucky: median $846 across 33 hospitalsKY$846West Virginia: median $745 across 16 hospitalsWV$745Virginia: median $913 across 15 hospitalsVA$913Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $2,046 across 15 hospitalsAZ$2,046New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,412 across 15 hospitalsKS$1,412Arkansas: median $580 across 12 hospitalsAR$580Tennessee: median $514 across 15 hospitalsTN$514North Carolina: median $617 across 12 hospitalsNC$617South Carolina: median $1,166 across 11 hospitalsSC$1,166Oklahoma: median $679 across 19 hospitalsOK$679Louisiana: median $435 across 16 hospitalsLA$435Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $631 across 13 hospitalsAL$631Georgia: median $756 across 50 hospitalsGA$756Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,250 across 116 hospitalsTX$1,250Florida: median $1,280 across 45 hospitalsFL$1,280
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,082. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO22$2,512+132%$1,143 – $5,615
Arizona AZ15$2,046+89%$619 – $2,046
Massachusetts MA18$2,032+88%$921 – $2,557
Idaho ID12$2,000+85%$1,529 – $2,582
Ohio OH52$1,707+58%$805 – $2,446
California CA104$1,576+46%$656 – $3,054
Indiana IN33$1,418+31%$498 – $2,376
Kansas KS15$1,412+30%$100 – $1,981
Missouri MO22$1,328+23%$494 – $4,353
Florida FL45$1,280+18%$1,068 – $3,030
Illinois IL34$1,270+17%$393 – $2,230
Texas TX116$1,250+15%$680 – $1,931
Wisconsin WI34$1,215+12%$1,126 – $1,520
South Carolina SC11$1,166+8%$823 – $1,278
Oregon OR21$1,158+7%$435 – $1,529
Washington WA21$1,048−3%$732 – $1,418
Nebraska NE12$924−15%$497 – $1,496
Virginia VA15$913−16%$802 – $913
Iowa IA21$884−18%$535 – $1,245
Utah UT25$867−20%$867 – $1,020
Pennsylvania PA57$865−20%$376 – $2,250
Kentucky KY33$846−22%$455 – $6,047
New York NY47$774−28%$490 – $1,615
New Jersey NJ32$766−29%$601 – $989
Georgia GA50$756−30%$384 – $1,686
West Virginia WV16$745−31%$257 – $1,114
Oklahoma OK19$679−37%$675 – $910
Alabama AL13$631−42%$478 – $1,096
North Carolina NC12$617−43%$427 – $1,141
Minnesota MN20$595−45%$457 – $2,760
Arkansas AR12$580−46%$415 – $1,156
Tennessee TN15$514−53%$269 – $826
Michigan MI35$437−60%$306 – $1,110
Louisiana LA16$435−60%$264 – $664
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $1,082.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care951$1,080$537 – $2,087
Children’s22$1,065$449 – $4,780
Critical access116$1,126$398 – $1,656
Ownership
For-profit149$1,399$608 – $3,007
Government119$774$478 – $1,497
Non-profit821$1,109$535 – $2,087
System affiliation
Part of a system946$1,110$535 – $2,170
Independent149$870$515 – $1,709

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,016
Median cash price$1,082
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

789 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,159 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,207; most fall between $567 and $2,170.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 789 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
$414$679$1,159$1,888$2,755

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($414 vs $2,755).

Of the 847 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 789 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,095 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,166 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,095
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code1,166

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 Conversion of cardiac rhythm family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cardioversion Elective Arrhythmia Internal Spx.

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, inside the heart (CPT 92961) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92961-electric-shock-to-reset-heart-rhythm-inside-the-heart