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Procedure price report · Electrocardiogram

Standard 12-lead heart tracing, recording only

CPT 93005the billing code this page is about

The recording portion only of a routine 12-lead electrocardiogram; the physician's interpretation and report are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $167 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,521 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $172. Most fall between $71 and $301 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,521
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 3,521 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
$42$83$167$274$409

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $409).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $33: 107 hospitals$24$33 – $46: 114 hospitals$46 – $64: 184 hospitals$46$64 – $89: 371 hospitals$89 – $123: 325 hospitals$89$123 – $170: 519 hospitals$170 – $236: 612 hospitals$170$236 – $327: 519 hospitals$327 – $453: 292 hospitals$327$453 – $629: 126 hospitals$453median $167price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,169 of 3,521 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$33107
$33$46114
$46$64184
$64$89371
$89$123325
$123$170519
$170$236612
$236$327519
$327$453292
$453$629126

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$167
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $167.

Alaska: median $194 across 19 hospitalsAK$194Maine: median $125 across 25 hospitalsME$125Vermont: median $118 across 14 hospitalsVT$118New Hampshire: median $122 across 25 hospitalsNH$122Washington: median $151 across 77 hospitalsWA$151Idaho: median $183 across 24 hospitalsID$183Montana: median $140 across 35 hospitalsMT$140North Dakota: median $95 across 37 hospitalsND$95Minnesota: median $158 across 109 hospitalsMN$158Illinois: median $230 across 132 hospitalsIL$230Wisconsin: median $155 across 110 hospitalsWI$155Michigan: median $120 across 98 hospitalsMI$120New York: median $98 across 115 hospitalsNY$98Massachusetts: median $181 across 54 hospitalsMA$181Oregon: median $193 across 56 hospitalsOR$193Nevada: median $274 across 24 hospitalsNV$274Wyoming: median $190 across 16 hospitalsWY$190South Dakota: median $243 across 45 hospitalsSD$243Iowa: median $149 across 95 hospitalsIA$149Indiana: median $181 across 94 hospitalsIN$181Ohio: median $166 across 136 hospitalsOH$166Pennsylvania: median $157 across 131 hospitalsPA$157New Jersey: median $76 across 57 hospitalsNJ$76Connecticut: median $173 across 22 hospitalsCT$173Rhode Island: median $99 across 10 hospitalsRI$99California: median $338 across 219 hospitalsCA$338Utah: median $175 across 42 hospitalsUT$175Colorado: median $202 across 72 hospitalsCO$202Nebraska: median $221 across 84 hospitalsNE$221Missouri: median $191 across 84 hospitalsMO$191Kentucky: median $171 across 69 hospitalsKY$171West Virginia: median $120 across 44 hospitalsWV$120Virginia: median $180 across 73 hospitalsVA$180Maryland: median $59 across 41 hospitalsMD$59Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $101 across 57 hospitalsAZ$101New Mexico: median $181 across 32 hospitalsNM$181Kansas: median $134 across 98 hospitalsKS$134Arkansas: median $63 across 40 hospitalsAR$63Tennessee: median $107 across 83 hospitalsTN$107North Carolina: median $159 across 90 hospitalsNC$159South Carolina: median $293 across 53 hospitalsSC$293Oklahoma: median $126 across 71 hospitalsOK$126Louisiana: median $83 across 56 hospitalsLA$83Mississippi: median $81 across 57 hospitalsMS$81Alabama: median $104 across 42 hospitalsAL$104Georgia: median $190 across 111 hospitalsGA$190Hawaii: median $241 across 21 hospitalsHI$241Texas: median $272 across 252 hospitalsTX$272Florida: median $288 across 163 hospitalsFL$288
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $167. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA219$338+102%$145 – $588
South Carolina SC53$293+75%$84 – $354
Florida FL163$288+73%$109 – $747
Nevada NV24$274+64%$88 – $437
Texas TX252$272+63%$117 – $450
South Dakota SD45$243+46%$180 – $303
Hawaii HI21$241+44%$142 – $272
Illinois IL132$230+38%$108 – $327
Nebraska NE84$221+32%$26 – $336
Colorado CO72$202+21%$94 – $332
Alaska AK19$194+16%$59 – $602
Oregon OR56$193+15%$20 – $328
Missouri MO84$191+15%$61 – $318
Wyoming WY16$190+14%$154 – $227
Georgia GA111$190+14%$74 – $306
Idaho ID24$183+10%$98 – $296
Indiana IN94$181+9%$74 – $275
New Mexico NM32$181+9%$97 – $323
Massachusetts MA54$181+8%$106 – $251
Virginia VA73$180+8%$91 – $247
Utah UT42$175+5%$164 – $244
Connecticut CT22$173+3%$127 – $273
Kentucky KY69$171+3%$64 – $267
Ohio OH136$166−1%$99 – $260
North Carolina NC90$159−5%$81 – $269
Minnesota MN109$158−5%$32 – $222
Pennsylvania PA131$157−6%$77 – $283
Wisconsin WI110$155−7%$110 – $210
Washington WA77$151−10%$87 – $208
Iowa IA95$149−11%$41 – $200
Montana MT35$140−16%$67 – $216
Kansas KS98$134−19%$49 – $230
Oklahoma OK71$126−24%$69 – $186
Maine ME25$125−25%$71 – $227
New Hampshire NH25$122−27%$96 – $220
Michigan MI98$120−28%$35 – $177
West Virginia WV44$120−28%$64 – $160
Vermont VT14$118−30%$85 – $224
Tennessee TN83$107−36%$58 – $266
Alabama AL42$104−38%$61 – $203
Arizona AZ57$101−40%$29 – $313
Rhode Island RI10$99−41%$66 – $199
New York NY115$98−41%$43 – $251
North Dakota ND37$95−43%$39 – $148
Louisiana LA56$83−50%$32 – $151
Mississippi MS57$81−51%$55 – $128
New Jersey NJ57$76−55%$66 – $169
Arkansas AR40$63−62%$32 – $187
Maryland MD41$59−65%$35 – $88
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 $167.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,428$174$71 – $327
Children’s71$200$142 – $381
Critical access1,012$156$67 – $247
Ownership
For-profit504$227$84 – $691
Government663$150$62 – $251
Non-profit2,344$165$71 – $290
System affiliation
Part of a system2,845$174$75 – $309
Independent676$139$59 – $244

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$291
Median cash price$167
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

2,412 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $181 and the average of the middle 60% is $185; most fall between $81 and $306.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,412 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
$48$99$181$285$387

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($48 vs $387).

Of the 2,577 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,412 gave a usable cash price; 50 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 114 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,521 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (89%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,738 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,521
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded129
Hospitals that filed this code3,738

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 July 20, 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 Electrocardiogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ecg Routine Ecg W/Least 12 Lds Trcg Only W/O 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, recording only (CPT 93005) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93005-standard-12-lead-heart-tracing-recording-only