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Procedure price report · Electrographic cardiac monitoring

Wearable heart rhythm monitor, 2 to 7 days – recording only

CPT 93242the billing code this page is about

Covers hooking up the wearable monitor, recording the heart rhythm for more than 48 hours and up to 7 days, and removing the device; the analysis and doctor's interpretation are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $147 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,155 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $161. Most fall between $51 and $375 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,155
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 2,155 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
$35$60$147$309$534

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $534).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $36: 113 hospitals$26$36 – $50: 195 hospitals$50 – $70: 254 hospitals$50$70 – $98: 188 hospitals$98 – $137: 172 hospitals$98$137 – $192: 270 hospitals$192 – $269: 225 hospitals$192$269 – $377: 211 hospitals$377 – $527: 199 hospitals$377$527 – $738: 114 hospitals$527median $147price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,941 of 2,155 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$36113
$36$50195
$50$70254
$70$98188
$98$137172
$137$192270
$192$269225
$269$377211
$377$527199
$527$738114

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$147
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.8×

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 $147.

Alaska: median $218 across 10 hospitalsAK$218Maine: median $111 across 22 hospitalsME$111Vermont: median $99 across 11 hospitalsVT$99New Hampshire: median $255 across 24 hospitalsNH$255Washington: median $112 across 38 hospitalsWA$112Idaho: median $196 across 18 hospitalsID$196Montana: median $94 across 20 hospitalsMT$94North Dakota: median $75 across 27 hospitalsND$75Minnesota: median $174 across 79 hospitalsMN$174Illinois: median $242 across 93 hospitalsIL$242Wisconsin: median $167 across 67 hospitalsWI$167Michigan: median $93 across 77 hospitalsMI$93New York: median $70 across 67 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: median $203 across 36 hospitalsMA$203Oregon: median $241 across 47 hospitalsOR$241Nevada: median $54 across 12 hospitalsNV$54Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $278 across 34 hospitalsSD$278Iowa: median $220 across 83 hospitalsIA$220Indiana: median $193 across 76 hospitalsIN$193Ohio: median $221 across 98 hospitalsOH$221Pennsylvania: median $68 across 78 hospitalsPA$68New Jersey: median $48 across 33 hospitalsNJ$48Connecticut: median $136 across 17 hospitalsCT$136Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $147 across 113 hospitalsCA$147Utah: median $309 across 31 hospitalsUT$309Colorado: median $227 across 53 hospitalsCO$227Nebraska: median $384 across 67 hospitalsNE$384Missouri: median $98 across 50 hospitalsMO$98Kentucky: median $52 across 58 hospitalsKY$52West Virginia: median $58 across 37 hospitalsWV$58Virginia: median $178 across 54 hospitalsVA$178Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 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 $165 across 18 hospitalsNM$165Kansas: median $210 across 49 hospitalsKS$210Arkansas: median $42 across 26 hospitalsAR$42Tennessee: median $156 across 46 hospitalsTN$156North Carolina: median $98 across 62 hospitalsNC$98South Carolina: median $212 across 38 hospitalsSC$212Oklahoma: median $53 across 37 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: median $51 across 30 hospitalsLA$51Mississippi: median $49 across 34 hospitalsMS$49Alabama: median $102 across 18 hospitalsAL$102Georgia: median $107 across 66 hospitalsGA$107Hawaii: median $65 across 13 hospitalsHI$65Texas: median $165 across 94 hospitalsTX$165Florida: median $242 across 60 hospitalsFL$242
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $147. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE67$384+161%$44 – $575
Utah UT31$309+111%$309 – $387
South Dakota SD34$278+89%$170 – $670
New Hampshire NH24$255+73%$163 – $366
Florida FL60$242+65%$66 – $515
Illinois IL93$242+65%$76 – $645
Oregon OR47$241+64%$48 – $294
Colorado CO53$227+54%$92 – $1,449
Ohio OH98$221+50%$119 – $437
Iowa IA83$220+50%$71 – $437
Alaska AK10$218+49%$54 – $465
South Carolina SC38$212+44%$85 – $298
Kansas KS49$210+43%$71 – $376
Massachusetts MA36$203+38%$125 – $445
Idaho ID18$196+33%$63 – $247
Indiana IN76$193+31%$53 – $660
Virginia VA54$178+21%$79 – $406
Minnesota MN79$174+19%$49 – $242
Wisconsin WI67$167+14%$84 – $310
Texas TX94$165+13%$58 – $521
New Mexico NM18$165+12%$83 – $360
Tennessee TN46$156+6%$36 – $190
California CA113$1470%$68 – $260
Connecticut CT17$136−8%$75 – $250
Washington WA38$112−24%$56 – $222
Maine ME22$111−24%$54 – $427
Georgia GA66$107−27%$59 – $203
Alabama AL18$102−31%$33 – $103
Vermont VT11$99−33%$53 – $143
North Carolina NC62$98−33%$58 – $291
Missouri MO50$98−33%$40 – $316
Montana MT20$94−36%$26 – $268
Michigan MI77$93−37%$51 – $196
North Dakota ND27$75−49%$57 – $168
New York NY67$70−53%$46 – $310
Pennsylvania PA78$68−54%$44 – $107
Hawaii HI13$65−56%$34 – $120
West Virginia WV37$58−61%$43 – $149
Nevada NV12$54−63%$46 – $233
Oklahoma OK37$53−64%$26 – $86
Kentucky KY58$52−65%$36 – $187
Louisiana LA30$51−65%$29 – $137
Mississippi MS34$49−67%$24 – $122
New Jersey NJ33$48−67%$43 – $176
Arkansas AR26$42−72%$42 – $291
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $147.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,464$125$48 – $331
Children’s37$393$103 – $795
Critical access649$193$59 – $416
Ownership
For-profit185$115$39 – $433
Government408$150$58 – $416
Non-profit1,557$147$51 – $359
System affiliation
Part of a system1,761$147$52 – $376
Independent394$120$49 – $354

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$232
Median cash price$147
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,498 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $147 and the average of the middle 60% is $161; most fall between $59 and $372.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,498 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
$38$66$147$298$526

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $526).

Of the 1,582 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,498 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 65 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,155 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (54%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,269 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,155
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
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 — excluded75
Hospitals that filed this code2,269

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 Electrographic cardiac monitoring family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as External Ecg Rec>48hr<7d Recording.

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, “Wearable heart rhythm monitor, 2 to 7 days – recording only (CPT 93242) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93242-wearable-heart-rhythm-monitor-2-to-7-days-recording-only