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Procedure price report · Electrographic cardiac monitoring

In-office defibrillator check without reprogramming

CPT 93289the billing code this page is about

An in-person readout of an implanted defibrillator, including recorded heart rhythm data, battery and lead status, with a written report and no change to settings; billed once per visit.

Hospitals typically charge $118 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,525 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $133. Most fall between $52 and $253 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,525
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 1,525 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$62$118$231$352

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($40 vs $352).

How the prices are spread

$34 – $45: 156 hospitals$34$45 – $60: 137 hospitals$60 – $79: 143 hospitals$60$79 – $105: 128 hospitals$105 – $139: 221 hospitals$105$139 – $184: 154 hospitals$184 – $244: 182 hospitals$184$244 – $323: 145 hospitals$323 – $427: 72 hospitals$323$427 – $566: 35 hospitals$427median $118price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,373 of 1,525 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$34$45156
$45$60137
$60$79143
$79$105128
$105$139221
$139$184154
$184$244182
$244$323145
$323$42772
$427$56635

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$118
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $118.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $45 across 11 hospitalsME$45Vermont: median $107 across 11 hospitalsVT$107New Hampshire: median $146 across 14 hospitalsNH$146Washington: median $105 across 35 hospitalsWA$105Idaho: median $94 across 12 hospitalsID$94Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $176 across 44 hospitalsMN$176Illinois: median $148 across 52 hospitalsIL$148Wisconsin: median $220 across 67 hospitalsWI$220Michigan: median $117 across 63 hospitalsMI$117New York: median $97 across 76 hospitalsNY$97Massachusetts: median $112 across 35 hospitalsMA$112Oregon: median $108 across 28 hospitalsOR$108Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $93 across 27 hospitalsIA$93Indiana: median $81 across 40 hospitalsIN$81Ohio: median $139 across 71 hospitalsOH$139Pennsylvania: median $66 across 75 hospitalsPA$66New Jersey: median $44 across 36 hospitalsNJ$44Connecticut: median $109 across 15 hospitalsCT$109Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $182 across 106 hospitalsCA$182Utah: median $78 across 24 hospitalsUT$78Colorado: median $271 across 36 hospitalsCO$271Nebraska: median $120 across 35 hospitalsNE$120Missouri: median $105 across 33 hospitalsMO$105Kentucky: median $108 across 21 hospitalsKY$108West Virginia: median $78 across 20 hospitalsWV$78Virginia: median $113 across 38 hospitalsVA$113Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $61 across 20 hospitalsAZ$61New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $64 across 18 hospitalsKS$64Arkansas: median $98 across 10 hospitalsAR$98Tennessee: median $94 across 28 hospitalsTN$94North Carolina: median $98 across 27 hospitalsNC$98South Carolina: median $126 across 17 hospitalsSC$126Oklahoma: median $57 across 22 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $81 across 31 hospitalsLA$81Mississippi: median $46 across 16 hospitalsMS$46Alabama: median $64 across 17 hospitalsAL$64Georgia: median $163 across 52 hospitalsGA$163Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $239 across 97 hospitalsTX$239Florida: median $174 across 79 hospitalsFL$174
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $118. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO36$271+130%$159 – $599
Texas TX97$239+102%$115 – $346
Wisconsin WI67$220+87%$145 – $272
California CA106$182+55%$70 – $286
Minnesota MN44$176+50%$108 – $239
Florida FL79$174+48%$65 – $402
Georgia GA52$163+39%$107 – $254
Illinois IL52$148+25%$70 – $266
New Hampshire NH14$146+24%$52 – $309
Ohio OH71$139+18%$93 – $235
South Carolina SC17$126+7%$84 – $227
Nebraska NE35$120+2%$56 – $240
Michigan MI63$1170%$58 – $220
Virginia VA38$113−4%$74 – $239
Massachusetts MA35$112−5%$50 – $492
Connecticut CT15$109−8%$67 – $158
Oregon OR28$108−8%$45 – $203
Kentucky KY21$108−8%$47 – $197
Vermont VT11$107−9%$54 – $241
Missouri MO33$105−11%$47 – $124
Washington WA35$105−11%$56 – $146
Arkansas AR10$98−17%$28 – $238
North Carolina NC27$98−17%$50 – $126
New York NY76$97−18%$44 – $267
Idaho ID12$94−20%$75 – $186
Tennessee TN28$94−20%$40 – $367
Iowa IA27$93−21%$66 – $140
Louisiana LA31$81−31%$39 – $130
Indiana IN40$81−32%$46 – $134
Utah UT24$78−34%$66 – $78
West Virginia WV20$78−34%$48 – $108
Pennsylvania PA75$66−44%$37 – $309
Alabama AL17$64−46%$42 – $92
Kansas KS18$64−46%$35 – $345
Arizona AZ20$61−48%$41 – $209
Oklahoma OK22$57−52%$53 – $132
Mississippi MS16$46−61%$38 – $54
Maine ME11$45−62%$37 – $82
New Jersey NJ36$44−63%$41 – $83
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $118.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,266$121$50 – $254
Children’s40$289$114 – $1,003
Critical access210$106$59 – $208
Ownership
For-profit146$163$53 – $402
Government217$94$48 – $176
Non-profit1,153$124$53 – $254
System affiliation
Part of a system1,302$124$51 – $254
Independent223$99$54 – $217

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$216
Median cash price$118
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

1,124 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $133 and the average of the middle 60% is $148; most fall between $65 and $264.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,124 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
$45$74$133$239$352

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($45 vs $352).

Of the 1,180 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,124 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,525 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,601 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,525
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
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 — excluded43
Hospitals that filed this code1,601

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 Interrog Eval F2f 1/Dual/Mlt Leads Impltbl Dfb|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 defibrillator check without reprogramming (CPT 93289) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93289-in-office-defibrillator-check-without-reprogramming