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Procedure price report · Electrocardiogram

Limited rhythm heart tracing with reading and report

CPT 93040the billing code this page is about

A short heart rhythm recording using one to three leads, including the tracing and the doctor's interpretation and written report.

Hospitals typically charge $30 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $36. Most fall between $20 and $62 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
296
States
45
Filings dated
Dec 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 296 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
$13$22$30$54$128

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $128).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 18 hospitals$10$13 – $17: 20 hospitals$17 – $23: 34 hospitals$17$23 – $31: 70 hospitals$31 – $42: 49 hospitals$31$42 – $57: 20 hospitals$57 – $76: 35 hospitals$57$76 – $103: 6 hospitals$103 – $138: 9 hospitals$103$138 – $186: 12 hospitals$138median $30price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (273 of 296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1318
$13$1720
$17$2334
$23$3170
$31$4249
$42$5720
$57$7635
$76$1036
$103$1389
$138$18612

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $30.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $28 across 12 hospitalsIL$28Wisconsin: median $62 across 23 hospitalsWI$62Michigan: median $37 across 16 hospitalsMI$37New York: median $28 across 20 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $37 across 11 hospitalsOR$37Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $28 across 19 hospitalsIA$28Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $10 across 17 hospitalsPA$10New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $20 across 11 hospitalsNC$20South Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $22 across 13 hospitalsOK$22Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $30. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI23$62+106%$62 – $62
Michigan MI16$37+22%$21 – $62
Oregon OR11$37+22%$24 – $37
New York NY20$28−7%$14 – $48
Iowa IA19$28−7%$28 – $39
Illinois IL12$28−7%$26 – $70
Oklahoma OK13$22−28%$22 – $22
North Carolina NC11$20−34%$10 – $36
Pennsylvania PA17$10−67%$8 – $59
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $30.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care199$28$18 – $59
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access90$38$22 – $62
Ownership
For-profit27$36$25 – $73
Government66$33$22 – $67
Non-profit202$28$19 – $62
System affiliation
Part of a system216$28$18 – $62
Independent80$38$23 – $92

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$45
Median cash price$30
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

191 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $28 and the average of the middle 60% is $35; most fall between $22 and $62.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 191 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
$16$22$28$54$130

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($16 vs $130).

Of the 212 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 191 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

296 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 330 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code330

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 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 Rhythm Ecg 1-3 Leads W/Interpretation & Report.

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, “Limited rhythm heart tracing with reading and report (CPT 93040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93040-limited-rhythm-heart-tracing-with-reading-and-report