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Procedure price report · Electrocardiogram

Standard 12-lead heart tracing with doctor's reading

CPT 93000the billing code this page is about

A routine electrocardiogram using 12 leads that records the heart's electrical activity, including both the recording and the physician's interpretation and written report.

Hospitals typically charge $67 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 938 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $78. Most fall between $30 and $158 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
938
States
49
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 938 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
$21$36$67$143$236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $236).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 57 hospitals$16$22 – $29: 77 hospitals$29 – $39: 98 hospitals$29$39 – $52: 103 hospitals$52 – $70: 99 hospitals$52$70 – $93: 89 hospitals$93 – $125: 86 hospitals$93$125 – $167: 113 hospitals$167 – $222: 65 hospitals$167$222 – $297: 59 hospitals$222median $67price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (846 of 938 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2257
$22$2977
$29$3998
$39$52103
$52$7099
$70$9389
$93$12586
$125$167113
$167$22265
$222$29759

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $67.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: median $105 across 10 hospitalsVT$105New Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $94 across 27 hospitalsWA$94Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $119 across 13 hospitalsMT$119North Dakota: median $41 across 10 hospitalsND$41Minnesota: median $100 across 34 hospitalsMN$100Illinois: median $74 across 32 hospitalsIL$74Wisconsin: median $154 across 42 hospitalsWI$154Michigan: median $38 across 46 hospitalsMI$38New York: median $55 across 55 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $124 across 17 hospitalsMA$124Oregon: median $42 across 24 hospitalsOR$42Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $41 across 13 hospitalsSD$41Iowa: median $63 across 54 hospitalsIA$63Indiana: median $35 across 20 hospitalsIN$35Ohio: median $104 across 40 hospitalsOH$104Pennsylvania: median $39 across 30 hospitalsPA$39New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 9 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 $90 across 52 hospitalsCA$90Utah: median $45 across 23 hospitalsUT$45Colorado: median $54 across 12 hospitalsCO$54Nebraska: median $61 across 31 hospitalsNE$61Missouri: median $61 across 15 hospitalsMO$61Kentucky: median $61 across 19 hospitalsKY$61West Virginia: median $143 across 23 hospitalsWV$143Virginia: 5 hospitals 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: median $77 across 11 hospitalsAZ$77New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $69 across 32 hospitalsKS$69Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $21 across 14 hospitalsTN$21North Carolina: median $22 across 12 hospitalsNC$22South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $23 across 21 hospitalsOK$23Louisiana: median $86 across 13 hospitalsLA$86Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $34 across 17 hospitalsGA$34Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $140 across 48 hospitalsTX$140Florida: median $113 across 10 hospitalsFL$113
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $67. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI42$154+131%$53 – $266
West Virginia WV23$143+115%$38 – $191
Texas TX48$140+110%$51 – $187
Massachusetts MA17$124+86%$97 – $189
Montana MT13$119+78%$35 – $235
Florida FL10$113+70%$34 – $319
Vermont VT10$105+58%$55 – $129
Ohio OH40$104+57%$33 – $270
Minnesota MN34$100+51%$37 – $216
Washington WA27$94+41%$47 – $159
California CA52$90+35%$37 – $122
Louisiana LA13$86+29%$26 – $113
Arizona AZ11$77+15%$21 – $454
Illinois IL32$74+11%$29 – $169
Kansas KS32$69+3%$43 – $119
Iowa IA54$63−5%$38 – $174
Missouri MO15$61−8%$32 – $84
Nebraska NE31$61−8%$39 – $130
Kentucky KY19$61−8%$23 – $143
New York NY55$55−18%$43 – $127
Colorado CO12$54−19%$40 – $227
Utah UT23$45−33%$45 – $45
Oregon OR24$42−37%$26 – $54
North Dakota ND10$41−38%$25 – $103
South Dakota SD13$41−39%$41 – $176
Pennsylvania PA30$39−41%$9 – $65
Michigan MI46$38−43%$17 – $132
Indiana IN20$35−48%$21 – $116
Georgia GA17$34−49%$19 – $86
Oklahoma OK21$23−65%$23 – $46
North Carolina NC12$22−66%$13 – $73
Tennessee TN14$21−69%$18 – $68
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $67.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care537$55$26 – $143
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access382$86$38 – $179
Ownership
For-profit65$73$35 – $176
Government229$78$34 – $167
Non-profit642$62$29 – $154
System affiliation
Part of a system681$65$29 – $154
Independent257$69$33 – $162

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$95
Median cash price$67
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

538 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $69 and the average of the middle 60% is $81; most fall between $31 and $154.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 538 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
$24$37$69$143$221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $221).

Of the 590 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 538 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

938 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,026 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted938
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,026

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 Electrocardiogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ecg Routine Ecg W/Least 12 Lds W/I&R.

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, “Standard 12-lead heart tracing with doctor's reading (CPT 93000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93000-standard-12-lead-heart-tracing-with-doctor-s-reading