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Procedure price report · Electrographic cardiac monitoring

Check and reprogramming of a multi-lead defibrillator

CPT 93284the billing code this page is about

In-person evaluation of an implanted defibrillator with three or more leads, including testing and adjusting the device settings with a report.

Hospitals typically charge $142 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,392 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $161. Most fall between $60 and $329 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,392
States
49
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 1,392 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
$42$71$142$282$441

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $441).

How the prices are spread

$37 – $49: 158 hospitals$37$49 – $64: 78 hospitals$64 – $85: 116 hospitals$64$85 – $112: 150 hospitals$112 – $147: 145 hospitals$112$147 – $194: 147 hospitals$194 – $256: 130 hospitals$194$256 – $337: 137 hospitals$337 – $445: 125 hospitals$337$445 – $586: 73 hospitals$445median $142price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,259 of 1,392 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$37$49158
$49$6478
$64$85116
$85$112150
$112$147145
$147$194147
$194$256130
$256$337137
$337$445125
$445$58673

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$142
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.7×

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 $142.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $40 across 10 hospitalsME$40Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $95 across 12 hospitalsNH$95Washington: median $102 across 26 hospitalsWA$102Idaho: 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 $212 across 46 hospitalsMN$212Illinois: median $302 across 54 hospitalsIL$302Wisconsin: median $313 across 64 hospitalsWI$313Michigan: median $140 across 57 hospitalsMI$140New York: median $75 across 62 hospitalsNY$75Massachusetts: median $156 across 33 hospitalsMA$156Oregon: median $108 across 32 hospitalsOR$108Nevada: 7 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 $86 across 21 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: median $159 across 37 hospitalsIN$159Ohio: median $184 across 67 hospitalsOH$184Pennsylvania: median $108 across 74 hospitalsPA$108New Jersey: median $44 across 32 hospitalsNJ$44Connecticut: median $158 across 13 hospitalsCT$158Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $260 across 89 hospitalsCA$260Utah: median $60 across 18 hospitalsUT$60Colorado: median $306 across 37 hospitalsCO$306Nebraska: median $136 across 34 hospitalsNE$136Missouri: median $70 across 26 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $159 across 23 hospitalsKY$159West Virginia: median $49 across 22 hospitalsWV$49Virginia: median $151 across 31 hospitalsVA$151Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $68 across 14 hospitalsAZ$68New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $88 across 16 hospitalsKS$88Arkansas: median $43 across 15 hospitalsAR$43Tennessee: median $83 across 19 hospitalsTN$83North Carolina: median $62 across 23 hospitalsNC$62South Carolina: median $187 across 31 hospitalsSC$187Oklahoma: median $71 across 23 hospitalsOK$71Louisiana: median $72 across 23 hospitalsLA$72Mississippi: median $46 across 15 hospitalsMS$46Alabama: median $69 across 12 hospitalsAL$69Georgia: median $159 across 50 hospitalsGA$159Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $320 across 89 hospitalsTX$320Florida: median $165 across 59 hospitalsFL$165
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $142. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX89$320+126%$139 – $418
Wisconsin WI64$313+121%$129 – $374
Colorado CO37$306+116%$133 – $425
Illinois IL54$302+113%$67 – $539
California CA89$260+84%$91 – $364
Minnesota MN46$212+50%$108 – $279
South Carolina SC31$187+32%$86 – $187
Idaho ID11$186+31%$83 – $186
Ohio OH67$184+30%$127 – $329
Florida FL59$165+16%$84 – $366
Georgia GA50$159+12%$90 – $235
Indiana IN37$159+12%$49 – $230
Kentucky KY23$159+12%$96 – $3,573
Connecticut CT13$158+11%$76 – $286
Massachusetts MA33$156+10%$82 – $469
Virginia VA31$151+7%$107 – $234
Michigan MI57$140−1%$73 – $267
Nebraska NE34$136−4%$66 – $196
Pennsylvania PA74$108−24%$44 – $457
Oregon OR32$108−24%$76 – $172
Washington WA26$102−28%$61 – $167
New Hampshire NH12$95−33%$79 – $182
Kansas KS16$88−38%$25 – $340
Iowa IA21$86−39%$83 – $220
Tennessee TN19$83−41%$45 – $514
New York NY62$75−47%$44 – $215
Louisiana LA23$72−49%$38 – $142
Oklahoma OK23$71−50%$41 – $71
Missouri MO26$70−50%$48 – $129
Alabama AL12$69−52%$33 – $284
Arizona AZ14$68−52%$46 – $224
North Carolina NC23$62−56%$39 – $171
Utah UT18$60−58%$60 – $92
West Virginia WV22$49−66%$42 – $92
Mississippi MS15$46−68%$28 – $176
New Jersey NJ32$44−69%$41 – $110
Arkansas AR15$43−70%$27 – $180
Maine ME10$40−72%$33 – $82
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
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not 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 $142.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,153$138$52 – $327
Children’s33$333$234 – $749
Critical access197$150$76 – $299
Ownership
For-profit115$137$45 – $343
Government183$115$53 – $231
Non-profit1,085$150$62 – $340
System affiliation
Part of a system1,196$146$60 – $333
Independent196$120$55 – $273

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$245
Median cash price$142
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

1,002 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $159 and the average of the middle 60% is $179; most fall between $75 and $340.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,002 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
$47$90$159$306$441

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $441).

Of the 1,055 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,002 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,392 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,462 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,392
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded36
Hospitals that filed this code1,462

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 Eval Implantable in Person Multi Lead Dfb|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, “Check and reprogramming of a multi-lead defibrillator (CPT 93284) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93284-check-and-reprogramming-of-a-multi-lead-defibrillator