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Procedure price report · Electrocardiogram

Limited rhythm heart tracing — recording only

CPT 93041the billing code this page is about

Covers only the one- to three-lead rhythm recording itself; the doctor's interpretation and report are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $112 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,005 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $117. Most fall between $53 and $211 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,005
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 2,005 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
$32$63$112$183$322

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $322).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $26: 48 hospitals$18$26 – $36: 84 hospitals$36 – $50: 131 hospitals$36$50 – $71: 248 hospitals$71 – $99: 277 hospitals$71$99 – $138: 313 hospitals$138 – $194: 347 hospitals$138$194 – $271: 199 hospitals$271 – $380: 103 hospitals$271$380 – $532: 56 hospitals$380median $112price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,806 of 2,005 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$2648
$26$3684
$36$50131
$50$71248
$71$99277
$99$138313
$138$194347
$194$271199
$271$380103
$380$53256

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$112
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.86×

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 $112.

Alaska: median $216 across 16 hospitalsAK$216Maine: median $70 across 15 hospitalsME$70Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $85 across 60 hospitalsWA$85Idaho: median $171 across 14 hospitalsID$171Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $61 across 21 hospitalsND$61Minnesota: median $123 across 43 hospitalsMN$123Illinois: median $174 across 63 hospitalsIL$174Wisconsin: median $118 across 72 hospitalsWI$118Michigan: median $68 across 40 hospitalsMI$68New York: median $88 across 70 hospitalsNY$88Massachusetts: median $135 across 22 hospitalsMA$135Oregon: median $103 across 40 hospitalsOR$103Nevada: median $88 across 16 hospitalsNV$88Wyoming: median $111 across 10 hospitalsWY$111South Dakota: median $144 across 11 hospitalsSD$144Iowa: median $98 across 54 hospitalsIA$98Indiana: median $116 across 54 hospitalsIN$116Ohio: median $147 across 81 hospitalsOH$147Pennsylvania: median $113 across 82 hospitalsPA$113New Jersey: median $77 across 30 hospitalsNJ$77Connecticut: median $102 across 12 hospitalsCT$102Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $144 across 164 hospitalsCA$144Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $158 across 37 hospitalsCO$158Nebraska: median $115 across 37 hospitalsNE$115Missouri: median $101 across 43 hospitalsMO$101Kentucky: median $95 across 42 hospitalsKY$95West Virginia: median $76 across 18 hospitalsWV$76Virginia: median $77 across 44 hospitalsVA$77Maryland: median $32 across 11 hospitalsMD$32Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $72 across 42 hospitalsAZ$72New Mexico: median $85 across 15 hospitalsNM$85Kansas: median $83 across 38 hospitalsKS$83Arkansas: median $97 across 15 hospitalsAR$97Tennessee: median $107 across 41 hospitalsTN$107North Carolina: median $106 across 57 hospitalsNC$106South Carolina: median $133 across 40 hospitalsSC$133Oklahoma: median $68 across 45 hospitalsOK$68Louisiana: median $40 across 40 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $64 across 36 hospitalsMS$64Alabama: median $97 across 29 hospitalsAL$97Georgia: median $119 across 70 hospitalsGA$119Hawaii: median $134 across 19 hospitalsHI$134Texas: median $160 across 156 hospitalsTX$160Florida: median $157 across 111 hospitalsFL$157
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $112. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK16$216+93%$73 – $403
Illinois IL63$174+55%$54 – $286
Idaho ID14$171+53%$93 – $296
Texas TX156$160+43%$89 – $383
Colorado CO37$158+41%$82 – $371
Florida FL111$157+41%$85 – $485
Ohio OH81$147+31%$55 – $222
California CA164$144+29%$75 – $242
South Dakota SD11$144+29%$144 – $150
Massachusetts MA22$135+21%$78 – $195
Hawaii HI19$134+20%$27 – $254
South Carolina SC40$133+18%$69 – $133
Minnesota MN43$123+10%$87 – $164
Georgia GA70$119+6%$58 – $200
Wisconsin WI72$118+5%$51 – $155
Indiana IN54$116+3%$38 – $211
Nebraska NE37$115+3%$72 – $178
Pennsylvania PA82$113+1%$58 – $243
Wyoming WY10$111−1%$27 – $116
Tennessee TN41$107−4%$53 – $248
North Carolina NC57$106−5%$35 – $166
Oregon OR40$103−8%$18 – $180
Connecticut CT12$102−9%$75 – $352
Missouri MO43$101−10%$66 – $167
Iowa IA54$98−12%$67 – $135
Arkansas AR15$97−13%$25 – $134
Alabama AL29$97−14%$48 – $167
Kentucky KY42$95−15%$42 – $127
Nevada NV16$88−21%$64 – $356
New York NY70$88−21%$53 – $173
Washington WA60$85−24%$50 – $148
New Mexico NM15$85−24%$61 – $136
Kansas KS38$83−26%$39 – $147
New Jersey NJ30$77−31%$66 – $228
Virginia VA44$77−31%$74 – $209
West Virginia WV18$76−32%$39 – $153
Arizona AZ42$72−35%$42 – $371
Maine ME15$70−37%$28 – $165
Michigan MI40$68−39%$42 – $121
Oklahoma OK45$68−39%$29 – $126
Mississippi MS36$64−43%$33 – $100
North Dakota ND21$61−46%$24 – $103
Louisiana LA40$40−64%$25 – $83
Maryland MD11$32−71%$19 – $44
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $112.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,495$118$56 – $215
Children’s34$234$88 – $372
Critical access471$102$46 – $180
Ownership
For-profit285$158$68 – $438
Government349$97$52 – $167
Non-profit1,366$111$51 – $199
System affiliation
Part of a system1,660$119$54 – $214
Independent345$99$52 – $188

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$201
Median cash price$112
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,386 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $116 and the average of the middle 60% is $117; most fall between $51 and $205.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,386 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
$32$59$116$182$285

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $285).

Of the 1,480 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,386 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 75 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,005 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,126 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,005
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code2,126

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 Electrocardiogram family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rhythm Ecg 1-3 Leads Tracing 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Limited rhythm heart tracing — recording only (CPT 93041) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93041-limited-rhythm-heart-tracing-recording-only