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Procedure price report · Electrographic cardiac monitoring

Doctor's reading of a 7 to 15 day heart rhythm recording

CPT 93248the billing code this page is about

Covers only the physician review and interpretation of a wearable heart monitor recording made over more than 7 days and up to 15 days.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 520 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $63. Most fall between $37 and $121 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
520
States
48
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 520 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
$24$41$60$95$272

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $272).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $27: 39 hospitals$19$27 – $37: 44 hospitals$37 – $52: 119 hospitals$37$52 – $73: 108 hospitals$73 – $102: 64 hospitals$73$102 – $143: 24 hospitals$143 – $199: 21 hospitals$143$199 – $279: 33 hospitals$279 – $389: 9 hospitals$279$389 – $544: 9 hospitals$389median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (470 of 520 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2739
$27$3744
$37$52119
$52$73108
$73$10264
$102$14324
$143$19921
$199$27933
$279$3899
$389$5449

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $37 across 13 hospitalsME$37Vermont: median $47 across 10 hospitalsVT$47New Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $67 across 17 hospitalsWA$67Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $60 across 11 hospitalsMT$60North Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $65 across 27 hospitalsMN$65Illinois: median $61 across 27 hospitalsIL$61Wisconsin: median $272 across 21 hospitalsWI$272Michigan: median $34 across 26 hospitalsMI$34New York: median $53 across 24 hospitalsNY$53Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $72 across 34 hospitalsOR$72Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $63 across 35 hospitalsIA$63Indiana: median $50 across 11 hospitalsIN$50Ohio: median $56 across 14 hospitalsOH$56Pennsylvania: median $19 across 17 hospitalsPA$19New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $790 across 35 hospitalsCA$790Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $48 across 11 hospitalsNE$48Missouri: median $40 across 16 hospitalsMO$40Kentucky: median $50 across 12 hospitalsKY$50West Virginia: median $39 across 14 hospitalsWV$39Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $47 across 11 hospitalsKS$47Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $40 across 10 hospitalsTN$40North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $48 across 11 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$790+1216%$50 – $790
Wisconsin WI21$272+353%$200 – $272
Oregon OR34$72+20%$46 – $75
Washington WA17$67+12%$46 – $189
Minnesota MN27$65+9%$43 – $86
Iowa IA35$63+5%$62 – $87
Illinois IL27$61+2%$50 – $320
Montana MT11$600%$42 – $85
Ohio OH14$56−6%$39 – $157
New York NY24$53−12%$31 – $86
Indiana IN11$50−16%$50 – $68
Kentucky KY12$50−16%$42 – $76
Nebraska NE11$48−20%$43 – $65
Oklahoma OK11$48−21%$48 – $48
Kansas KS11$47−22%$38 – $97
Vermont VT10$47−22%$42 – $71
Missouri MO16$40−33%$26 – $55
Tennessee TN10$40−34%$22 – $57
West Virginia WV14$39−35%$28 – $77
Maine ME13$37−38%$16 – $136
Michigan MI26$34−43%$23 – $47
Pennsylvania PA17$19−68%$16 – $52
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care314$54$34 – $118
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access196$65$41 – $136
Ownership
For-profit22$53$48 – $77
Government115$71$42 – $158
Non-profit382$56$35 – $121
System affiliation
Part of a system383$57$35 – $117
Independent137$64$41 – $158

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$80
Median cash price$60
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

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $63 and the average of the middle 60% is $66; most fall between $42 and $145.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 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
$36$45$63$97$272

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $272).

Of the 355 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

520 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 576 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted520
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code576

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 September 4, 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 Electrographic cardiac monitoring family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as External Ecg Rec>7d<15d Review & Interpretation.

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 7 to 15 day heart rhythm recording (CPT 93248) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93248-doctor-s-reading-of-a-7-to-15-day-heart-rhythm-recording