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Procedure price report · Electrocardiogram

Doctor's reading of a 12-lead heart tracing

CPT 93010the billing code this page is about

The physician's interpretation and written report of a routine 12-lead electrocardiogram; the recording itself is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $24 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,213 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $27. Most fall between $13 and $53 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,213
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,213 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
$10$15$24$45$72

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $72).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $10: 77 hospitals$8$10 – $13: 97 hospitals$13 – $17: 147 hospitals$13$17 – $22: 148 hospitals$22 – $28: 173 hospitals$22$28 – $37: 125 hospitals$37 – $47: 96 hospitals$37$47 – $61: 115 hospitals$61 – $79: 69 hospitals$61$79 – $102: 49 hospitals$79median $24price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,096 of 1,213 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$1077
$10$1397
$13$17147
$17$22148
$22$28173
$28$37125
$37$4796
$47$61115
$61$7969
$79$10249

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $24.

Alaska: median $41 across 11 hospitalsAK$41Maine: median $26 across 16 hospitalsME$26Vermont: median $31 across 12 hospitalsVT$31New Hampshire: median $22 across 12 hospitalsNH$22Washington: median $35 across 36 hospitalsWA$35Idaho: median $21 across 11 hospitalsID$21Montana: median $25 across 19 hospitalsMT$25North Dakota: median $18 across 12 hospitalsND$18Minnesota: median $26 across 55 hospitalsMN$26Illinois: median $44 across 54 hospitalsIL$44Wisconsin: median $59 across 49 hospitalsWI$59Michigan: median $17 across 54 hospitalsMI$17New York: median $32 across 61 hospitalsNY$32Massachusetts: median $30 across 10 hospitalsMA$30Oregon: median $23 across 42 hospitalsOR$23Nevada: 5 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 $28 across 27 hospitalsSD$28Iowa: median $21 across 73 hospitalsIA$21Indiana: median $33 across 28 hospitalsIN$33Ohio: median $17 across 37 hospitalsOH$17Pennsylvania: median $22 across 38 hospitalsPA$22New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $48 across 13 hospitalsCT$48Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $53 across 53 hospitalsCA$53Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $35 across 21 hospitalsCO$35Nebraska: median $24 across 42 hospitalsNE$24Missouri: median $25 across 31 hospitalsMO$25Kentucky: median $34 across 28 hospitalsKY$34West Virginia: median $15 across 28 hospitalsWV$15Virginia: median $13 across 11 hospitalsVA$13Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $14 across 15 hospitalsNM$14Kansas: median $33 across 42 hospitalsKS$33Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $7 across 23 hospitalsTN$7North Carolina: median $20 across 27 hospitalsNC$20South Carolina: median $41 across 11 hospitalsSC$41Oklahoma: median $13 across 34 hospitalsOK$13Louisiana: median $11 across 14 hospitalsLA$11Mississippi: median $20 across 18 hospitalsMS$20Alabama: median $22 across 15 hospitalsAL$22Georgia: median $21 across 29 hospitalsGA$21Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $19 across 31 hospitalsTX$19Florida: median $24 across 18 hospitalsFL$24
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $24. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI49$59+144%$30 – $83
California CA53$53+119%$19 – $78
Connecticut CT13$48+100%$32 – $55
Illinois IL54$44+84%$18 – $79
South Carolina SC11$41+70%$33 – $77
Alaska AK11$41+69%$31 – $75
Washington WA36$35+47%$15 – $63
Colorado CO21$35+44%$19 – $62
Kentucky KY28$34+40%$10 – $52
Indiana IN28$33+39%$17 – $66
Kansas KS42$33+38%$22 – $41
New York NY61$32+33%$16 – $350
Vermont VT12$31+29%$19 – $43
Massachusetts MA10$30+25%$15 – $45
South Dakota SD27$28+17%$14 – $62
Maine ME16$26+10%$16 – $53
Minnesota MN55$26+6%$15 – $43
Montana MT19$25+5%$13 – $40
Missouri MO31$25+3%$12 – $34
Florida FL18$240%$11 – $49
Nebraska NE42$240%$18 – $35
Oregon OR42$23−3%$14 – $30
Pennsylvania PA38$22−8%$6 – $30
Alabama AL15$22−8%$11 – $70
New Hampshire NH12$22−10%$13 – $47
Georgia GA29$21−12%$11 – $45
Iowa IA73$21−12%$17 – $44
Idaho ID11$21−12%$19 – $48
North Carolina NC27$20−15%$13 – $26
Mississippi MS18$20−19%$12 – $42
Texas TX31$19−21%$9 – $43
North Dakota ND12$18−26%$13 – $24
Ohio OH37$17−28%$11 – $34
Michigan MI54$17−31%$12 – $26
West Virginia WV28$15−38%$9 – $45
New Mexico NM15$14−42%$14 – $27
Oklahoma OK34$13−45%$10 – $33
Virginia VA11$13−46%$10 – $23
Louisiana LA14$11−52%$8 – $24
Tennessee TN23$7−69%$5 – $10
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $24.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care638$21$12 – $50
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access559$29$15 – $53
Ownership
For-profit60$24$13 – $50
Government325$28$16 – $51
Non-profit825$23$13 – $53
System affiliation
Part of a system873$23$13 – $51
Independent340$28$14 – $59

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$35
Median cash price$24
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

727 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $23 and the average of the middle 60% is $27; most fall between $14 and $53.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 727 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
$11$15$23$48$70

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $70).

Of the 803 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 727 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 54 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,213 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,326 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,213
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded74
Hospitals that filed this code1,326

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 July 20, 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 I&R Only.

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, “Doctor's reading of a 12-lead heart tracing (CPT 93010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93010-doctor-s-reading-of-a-12-lead-heart-tracing