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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic cardiovascular procedures

In-office check of an under-the-skin defibrillator

CPT 93261the billing code this page is about

An in-person interrogation of an implanted subcutaneous defibrillator that retrieves and reviews stored data and settings without changing the programming.

Hospitals typically charge $100 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,094 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $108. Most fall between $48 and $193 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,094
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 1,094 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
$41$55$100$171$337

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $337).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $39: 52 hospitals$29$39 – $51: 130 hospitals$51 – $68: 124 hospitals$51$68 – $89: 144 hospitals$89 – $118: 124 hospitals$89$118 – $156: 153 hospitals$156 – $206: 136 hospitals$156$206 – $272: 45 hospitals$272 – $360: 36 hospitals$272$360 – $475: 43 hospitals$360median $100price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (987 of 1,094 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$3952
$39$51130
$51$68124
$68$89144
$89$118124
$118$156153
$156$206136
$206$27245
$272$36036
$360$47543

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$100
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $100.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $102 across 29 hospitalsWA$102Idaho: median $152 across 10 hospitalsID$152Montana: 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: median $164 across 33 hospitalsMN$164Illinois: median $131 across 40 hospitalsIL$131Wisconsin: median $224 across 48 hospitalsWI$224Michigan: median $86 across 55 hospitalsMI$86New York: median $66 across 49 hospitalsNY$66Massachusetts: median $125 across 24 hospitalsMA$125Oregon: median $108 across 28 hospitalsOR$108Nevada: 4 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 $63 across 18 hospitalsIA$63Indiana: median $78 across 36 hospitalsIN$78Ohio: median $139 across 65 hospitalsOH$139Pennsylvania: median $63 across 53 hospitalsPA$63New Jersey: median $44 across 28 hospitalsNJ$44Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $193 across 75 hospitalsCA$193Utah: median $76 across 23 hospitalsUT$76Colorado: median $187 across 31 hospitalsCO$187Nebraska: median $92 across 11 hospitalsNE$92Missouri: median $45 across 19 hospitalsMO$45Kentucky: median $150 across 23 hospitalsKY$150West Virginia: median $46 across 18 hospitalsWV$46Virginia: median $66 across 23 hospitalsVA$66Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $147 across 15 hospitalsAZ$147New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $48 across 10 hospitalsAR$48Tennessee: median $47 across 13 hospitalsTN$47North Carolina: median $64 across 11 hospitalsNC$64South Carolina: median $54 across 24 hospitalsSC$54Oklahoma: median $55 across 18 hospitalsOK$55Louisiana: median $42 across 13 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $76 across 47 hospitalsGA$76Hawaii: median $83 across 10 hospitalsHI$83Texas: median $156 across 59 hospitalsTX$156Florida: median $101 across 54 hospitalsFL$101
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $100. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI48$224+124%$129 – $365
California CA75$193+93%$104 – $236
Colorado CO31$187+87%$123 – $343
Minnesota MN33$164+64%$103 – $448
Texas TX59$156+56%$115 – $187
Idaho ID10$152+52%$61 – $186
Kentucky KY23$150+50%$52 – $3,573
Arizona AZ15$147+47%$47 – $610
Ohio OH65$139+39%$74 – $337
Illinois IL40$131+31%$60 – $158
Massachusetts MA24$125+25%$67 – $224
Oregon OR28$108+8%$73 – $140
Washington WA29$102+2%$70 – $108
Florida FL54$101+1%$70 – $174
Nebraska NE11$92−8%$67 – $135
Michigan MI55$86−14%$43 – $126
Hawaii HI10$83−17%$38 – $179
Indiana IN36$78−22%$44 – $150
Utah UT23$76−24%$76 – $84
Georgia GA47$76−24%$44 – $171
New York NY49$66−34%$44 – $218
Virginia VA23$66−34%$64 – $156
North Carolina NC11$64−36%$44 – $64
Iowa IA18$63−37%$63 – $250
Pennsylvania PA53$63−37%$34 – $194
Oklahoma OK18$55−45%$55 – $69
South Carolina SC24$54−46%$54 – $192
Arkansas AR10$48−52%$34 – $328
Tennessee TN13$47−53%$29 – $123
West Virginia WV18$46−54%$36 – $66
Missouri MO19$45−55%$41 – $105
New Jersey NJ28$44−56%$41 – $50
Louisiana LA13$42−58%$29 – $51
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $100.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care949$100$47 – $192
Children’s20$102$71 – $484
Critical access120$91$57 – $199
Ownership
For-profit97$132$55 – $287
Government127$69$44 – $140
Non-profit865$101$51 – $193
System affiliation
Part of a system974$101$48 – $193
Independent120$88$49 – $164

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$172
Median cash price$100
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

789 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $112 and the average of the middle 60% is $117; most fall between $59 and $193.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 789 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
$44$67$112$180$284

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $284).

Of the 827 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 789 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,094 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,146 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,094
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code1,146

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 Other diagnostic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Interrogation Eval F2f Implant Subq Lead Defib|TECHNICAL COMPONENT.

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, “In-office check of an under-the-skin defibrillator (CPT 93261) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93261-in-office-check-of-an-under-the-skin-defibrillator