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Procedure price report · Cardiac stress tests

Exercise heart stress test, recording only

CPT 93017the billing code this page is about

The tracing and monitoring portion of an exercise stress test only, without physician supervision or the interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $765 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,213 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $789. Most fall between $369 and $1,382 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,213
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 3,213 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
$250$433$765$1,204$1,973

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($250 vs $1,973).

How the prices are spread

$158 – $213: 79 hospitals$158$213 – $288: 188 hospitals$288 – $388: 249 hospitals$288$388 – $523: 366 hospitals$523 – $705: 414 hospitals$523$705 – $950: 524 hospitals$950 – $1,281: 512 hospitals$950$1,281 – $1,727: 332 hospitals$1,727 – $2,328: 130 hospitals$1,727$2,328 – $3,138: 99 hospitals$2,328median $765price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,893 of 3,213 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$158$21379
$213$288188
$288$388249
$388$523366
$523$705414
$705$950524
$950$1,281512
$1,281$1,727332
$1,727$2,328130
$2,328$3,13899

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$765
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.5×

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 $765.

Alaska: median $930 across 14 hospitalsAK$930Maine: median $536 across 24 hospitalsME$536Vermont: median $829 across 12 hospitalsVT$829New Hampshire: median $743 across 24 hospitalsNH$743Washington: median $594 across 68 hospitalsWA$594Idaho: median $743 across 22 hospitalsID$743Montana: median $554 across 23 hospitalsMT$554North Dakota: median $332 across 24 hospitalsND$332Minnesota: median $697 across 101 hospitalsMN$697Illinois: median $981 across 123 hospitalsIL$981Wisconsin: median $659 across 104 hospitalsWI$659Michigan: median $715 across 98 hospitalsMI$715New York: median $545 across 112 hospitalsNY$545Massachusetts: median $1,029 across 50 hospitalsMA$1,029Oregon: median $631 across 53 hospitalsOR$631Nevada: median $802 across 19 hospitalsNV$802Wyoming: median $814 across 14 hospitalsWY$814South Dakota: median $1,309 across 33 hospitalsSD$1,309Iowa: median $662 across 85 hospitalsIA$662Indiana: median $664 across 81 hospitalsIN$664Ohio: median $898 across 131 hospitalsOH$898Pennsylvania: median $863 across 126 hospitalsPA$863New Jersey: median $415 across 57 hospitalsNJ$415Connecticut: median $1,016 across 23 hospitalsCT$1,016Rhode Island: median $407 across 10 hospitalsRI$407California: median $1,347 across 208 hospitalsCA$1,347Utah: median $420 across 38 hospitalsUT$420Colorado: median $848 across 65 hospitalsCO$848Nebraska: median $1,152 across 71 hospitalsNE$1,152Missouri: median $833 across 77 hospitalsMO$833Kentucky: median $808 across 65 hospitalsKY$808West Virginia: median $649 across 35 hospitalsWV$649Virginia: median $751 across 71 hospitalsVA$751Maryland: median $146 across 37 hospitalsMD$146Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $496 across 53 hospitalsAZ$496New Mexico: median $543 across 28 hospitalsNM$543Kansas: median $521 across 76 hospitalsKS$521Arkansas: median $257 across 31 hospitalsAR$257Tennessee: median $382 across 79 hospitalsTN$382North Carolina: median $782 across 86 hospitalsNC$782South Carolina: median $982 across 51 hospitalsSC$982Oklahoma: median $457 across 59 hospitalsOK$457Louisiana: median $351 across 48 hospitalsLA$351Mississippi: median $293 across 51 hospitalsMS$293Alabama: median $520 across 39 hospitalsAL$520Georgia: median $998 across 96 hospitalsGA$998Hawaii: median $864 across 16 hospitalsHI$864Texas: median $1,252 across 226 hospitalsTX$1,252Florida: median $1,504 across 169 hospitalsFL$1,504
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $765. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL169$1,504+97%$572 – $4,484
California CA208$1,347+76%$636 – $2,212
South Dakota SD33$1,309+71%$1,026 – $1,526
Texas TX226$1,252+64%$627 – $2,536
Nebraska NE71$1,152+51%$945 – $1,412
Massachusetts MA50$1,029+34%$547 – $1,251
Connecticut CT23$1,016+33%$444 – $1,549
Georgia GA96$998+31%$282 – $1,163
South Carolina SC51$982+28%$812 – $1,300
Illinois IL123$981+28%$526 – $1,596
Alaska AK14$930+22%$369 – $1,420
Ohio OH131$898+17%$582 – $1,164
Hawaii HI16$864+13%$541 – $945
Pennsylvania PA126$863+13%$343 – $1,247
Colorado CO65$848+11%$554 – $2,078
Missouri MO77$833+9%$463 – $1,503
Vermont VT12$829+8%$453 – $1,349
Wyoming WY14$814+6%$434 – $1,208
Kentucky KY65$808+6%$512 – $1,534
Nevada NV19$802+5%$239 – $1,342
North Carolina NC86$782+2%$506 – $1,330
Virginia VA71$751−2%$462 – $1,670
New Hampshire NH24$743−3%$521 – $1,294
Idaho ID22$743−3%$342 – $1,079
Michigan MI98$715−7%$341 – $1,052
Minnesota MN101$697−9%$416 – $856
Indiana IN81$664−13%$343 – $1,199
Iowa IA85$662−14%$484 – $860
Wisconsin WI104$659−14%$429 – $995
West Virginia WV35$649−15%$497 – $859
Oregon OR53$631−17%$124 – $807
Washington WA68$594−22%$407 – $911
Montana MT23$554−28%$280 – $808
New York NY112$545−29%$256 – $1,259
New Mexico NM28$543−29%$326 – $959
Maine ME24$536−30%$344 – $828
Kansas KS76$521−32%$312 – $830
Alabama AL39$520−32%$270 – $960
Arizona AZ53$496−35%$265 – $1,461
Oklahoma OK59$457−40%$319 – $760
Utah UT38$420−45%$357 – $1,255
New Jersey NJ57$415−46%$340 – $862
Rhode Island RI10$407−47%$154 – $1,072
Tennessee TN79$382−50%$220 – $1,028
Louisiana LA48$351−54%$208 – $650
North Dakota ND24$332−57%$166 – $526
Mississippi MS51$293−62%$215 – $554
Arkansas AR31$257−66%$177 – $650
Maryland MD37$146−81%$86 – $216
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 $765.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,347$782$357 – $1,449
Children’s49$1,318$653 – $2,075
Critical access808$717$403 – $1,119
Ownership
For-profit451$1,039$431 – $3,563
Government560$697$336 – $1,094
Non-profit2,193$751$366 – $1,300
System affiliation
Part of a system2,639$805$388 – $1,425
Independent574$641$314 – $1,112

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,308
Median cash price$765
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

2,224 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $782 and the average of the middle 60% is $806; most fall between $402 and $1,344.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,224 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
$265$455$782$1,193$1,748

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($265 vs $1,748).

Of the 2,363 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,224 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,213 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (81%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,409 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,213
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded117
Hospitals that filed this code3,409

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 Cardiac stress tests family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cv Strs Tst Xers&/or Rx Cont Ecg Trcg 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Exercise heart stress test, recording only (CPT 93017) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93017-exercise-heart-stress-test-recording-only