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Procedure price report · Electrographic cardiac monitoring

In-office reprogramming of a single-lead pacemaker

CPT 93279the billing code this page is about

An in-person evaluation of a pacemaker with one lead in which settings are tested and adjusted to choose the programming the device will use.

Hospitals typically charge $105 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,467 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $114. Most fall between $47 and $222 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,467
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 1,467 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$55$105$194$299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $299).

How the prices are spread

$28 – $37: 78 hospitals$28$37 – $49: 165 hospitals$49 – $65: 142 hospitals$49$65 – $85: 148 hospitals$85 – $113: 173 hospitals$85$113 – $149: 177 hospitals$149 – $196: 146 hospitals$149$196 – $259: 166 hospitals$259 – $342: 82 hospitals$259$342 – $451: 47 hospitals$342median $105price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,324 of 1,467 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$28$3778
$37$49165
$49$65142
$65$85148
$85$113173
$113$149177
$149$196146
$196$259166
$259$34282
$342$45147

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$105
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $105.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $40 across 14 hospitalsME$40Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $72 across 12 hospitalsNH$72Washington: median $72 across 27 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $186 across 11 hospitalsID$186Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $145 across 51 hospitalsMN$145Illinois: median $182 across 55 hospitalsIL$182Wisconsin: median $205 across 61 hospitalsWI$205Michigan: median $115 across 62 hospitalsMI$115New York: median $71 across 67 hospitalsNY$71Massachusetts: median $123 across 37 hospitalsMA$123Oregon: median $67 across 32 hospitalsOR$67Nevada: median $92 across 11 hospitalsNV$92Wyoming: 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 $66 across 23 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: median $126 across 41 hospitalsIN$126Ohio: median $139 across 75 hospitalsOH$139Pennsylvania: median $80 across 82 hospitalsPA$80New Jersey: median $48 across 32 hospitalsNJ$48Connecticut: median $102 across 14 hospitalsCT$102Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $172 across 110 hospitalsCA$172Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $128 across 39 hospitalsCO$128Nebraska: median $88 across 35 hospitalsNE$88Missouri: median $46 across 26 hospitalsMO$46Kentucky: median $134 across 21 hospitalsKY$134West Virginia: median $43 across 21 hospitalsWV$43Virginia: median $122 across 28 hospitalsVA$122Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $43 across 18 hospitalsAZ$43New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $88 across 18 hospitalsKS$88Arkansas: median $56 across 14 hospitalsAR$56Tennessee: median $56 across 19 hospitalsTN$56North Carolina: median $66 across 28 hospitalsNC$66South Carolina: median $158 across 26 hospitalsSC$158Oklahoma: median $57 across 22 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $50 across 26 hospitalsLA$50Mississippi: median $39 across 16 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $69 across 16 hospitalsAL$69Georgia: median $104 across 53 hospitalsGA$104Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $198 across 86 hospitalsTX$198Florida: median $114 across 67 hospitalsFL$114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $105. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI61$205+96%$96 – $253
Texas TX86$198+88%$65 – $356
Idaho ID11$186+77%$67 – $186
Illinois IL55$182+73%$56 – $290
California CA110$172+63%$57 – $249
South Carolina SC26$158+50%$74 – $185
Minnesota MN51$145+39%$108 – $186
Ohio OH75$139+32%$85 – $169
Kentucky KY21$134+27%$45 – $140
Colorado CO39$128+22%$86 – $299
Indiana IN41$126+20%$41 – $306
Massachusetts MA37$123+17%$67 – $328
Virginia VA28$122+16%$60 – $389
Michigan MI62$115+9%$38 – $205
Florida FL67$114+9%$75 – $317
Georgia GA53$104−1%$80 – $153
Connecticut CT14$102−3%$67 – $264
Nevada NV11$92−12%$48 – $203
Kansas KS18$88−16%$23 – $334
Nebraska NE35$88−17%$56 – $125
Pennsylvania PA82$80−24%$42 – $254
Washington WA27$72−31%$56 – $97
New Hampshire NH12$72−31%$33 – $134
New York NY67$71−32%$44 – $146
Alabama AL16$69−35%$33 – $114
Oregon OR32$67−36%$56 – $123
Iowa IA23$66−37%$66 – $142
North Carolina NC28$66−38%$36 – $110
Oklahoma OK22$57−45%$42 – $57
Arkansas AR14$56−47%$21 – $214
Tennessee TN19$56−47%$30 – $514
Louisiana LA26$50−52%$31 – $74
New Jersey NJ32$48−54%$41 – $189
Missouri MO26$46−56%$37 – $52
West Virginia WV21$43−59%$34 – $77
Arizona AZ18$43−59%$35 – $224
Maine ME14$40−62%$30 – $71
Mississippi MS16$39−63%$31 – $92
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not 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 $105.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,204$104$45 – $227
Children’s38$220$156 – $951
Critical access216$96$56 – $194
Ownership
For-profit128$106$41 – $305
Government208$79$44 – $140
Non-profit1,122$112$49 – $234
System affiliation
Part of a system1,243$108$47 – $233
Independent224$85$45 – $194

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$186
Median cash price$105
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

1,052 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $122 and the average of the middle 60% is $127; most fall between $56 and $233.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,052 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
$40$63$122$205$294

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($40 vs $294).

Of the 1,107 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,052 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,467 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,542 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,467
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code1,542

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 Prgrmg Dev Eval 1 Lead Pm/Ldls Pm 1 Car Chmbr IP|PROFESSIONAL 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 reprogramming of a single-lead pacemaker (CPT 93279) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93279-in-office-reprogramming-of-a-single-lead-pacemaker