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Procedure price report · Electrographic cardiac monitoring

In-office check of an implanted heart rhythm monitor

CPT 93291the billing code this page is about

An in-person readout of an implanted loop recorder placed under the skin, reviewing the heart rhythm it has stored, with a written report and no change to settings.

Hospitals typically charge $87 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,267 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $94. Most fall between $38 and $186 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,267
States
49
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,267 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
$29$44$87$170$279

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $279).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $28: 52 hospitals$21$28 – $38: 140 hospitals$38 – $52: 124 hospitals$38$52 – $70: 135 hospitals$70 – $95: 179 hospitals$70$95 – $129: 172 hospitals$129 – $176: 108 hospitals$129$176 – $239: 137 hospitals$239 – $324: 68 hospitals$239$324 – $441: 28 hospitals$324median $87price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,143 of 1,267 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$2852
$28$38140
$38$52124
$52$70135
$70$95179
$95$129172
$129$176108
$176$239137
$239$32468
$324$44128

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$87
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $87.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $57 across 12 hospitalsNH$57Washington: median $70 across 29 hospitalsWA$70Idaho: median $71 across 13 hospitalsID$71Montana: 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 $92 across 41 hospitalsMN$92Illinois: median $119 across 48 hospitalsIL$119Wisconsin: median $131 across 62 hospitalsWI$131Michigan: median $85 across 54 hospitalsMI$85New York: median $51 across 68 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: median $87 across 35 hospitalsMA$87Oregon: median $74 across 25 hospitalsOR$74Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $90 across 23 hospitalsIA$90Indiana: median $68 across 22 hospitalsIN$68Ohio: median $92 across 65 hospitalsOH$92Pennsylvania: median $57 across 71 hospitalsPA$57New Jersey: median $33 across 34 hospitalsNJ$33Connecticut: median $63 across 12 hospitalsCT$63Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $125 across 78 hospitalsCA$125Utah: median $69 across 23 hospitalsUT$69Colorado: median $117 across 30 hospitalsCO$117Nebraska: median $67 across 19 hospitalsNE$67Missouri: median $37 across 24 hospitalsMO$37Kentucky: median $45 across 15 hospitalsKY$45West Virginia: median $48 across 20 hospitalsWV$48Virginia: median $95 across 27 hospitalsVA$95Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $38 across 10 hospitalsAR$38Tennessee: median $70 across 19 hospitalsTN$70North Carolina: median $65 across 24 hospitalsNC$65South Carolina: median $74 across 14 hospitalsSC$74Oklahoma: median $36 across 22 hospitalsOK$36Louisiana: median $43 across 24 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: median $39 across 15 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $46 across 14 hospitalsAL$46Georgia: median $125 across 51 hospitalsGA$125Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $218 across 81 hospitalsTX$218Florida: median $114 across 54 hospitalsFL$114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $87. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX81$218+151%$77 – $279
Wisconsin WI62$131+51%$96 – $187
California CA78$125+43%$63 – $176
Georgia GA51$125+43%$99 – $200
Illinois IL48$119+37%$32 – $186
Colorado CO30$117+35%$50 – $185
Florida FL54$114+31%$67 – $259
Virginia VA27$95+9%$51 – $316
Minnesota MN41$92+6%$83 – $172
Ohio OH65$92+5%$62 – $190
Iowa IA23$90+3%$47 – $133
Massachusetts MA35$870%$58 – $336
Michigan MI54$85−2%$40 – $175
Oregon OR25$74−14%$31 – $164
South Carolina SC14$74−15%$48 – $185
Idaho ID13$71−19%$42 – $122
Tennessee TN19$70−20%$22 – $514
Washington WA29$70−20%$40 – $104
Utah UT23$69−21%$69 – $86
Indiana IN22$68−21%$41 – $105
Nebraska NE19$67−23%$31 – $87
North Carolina NC24$65−25%$24 – $120
Connecticut CT12$63−28%$54 – $115
Pennsylvania PA71$57−34%$33 – $193
New Hampshire NH12$57−35%$23 – $108
New York NY68$51−41%$29 – $207
West Virginia WV20$48−45%$20 – $75
Alabama AL14$46−48%$42 – $107
Kentucky KY15$45−49%$33 – $98
Louisiana LA24$43−51%$31 – $99
Mississippi MS15$39−55%$20 – $94
Arkansas AR10$38−56%$12 – $45
Missouri MO24$37−58%$23 – $129
Oklahoma OK22$36−59%$36 – $66
New Jersey NJ34$33−62%$27 – $144
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not 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 $87.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,068$86$37 – $186
Children’s35$238$80 – $600
Critical access155$86$33 – $131
Ownership
For-profit108$101$42 – $253
Government165$65$32 – $124
Non-profit985$90$38 – $186
System affiliation
Part of a system1,086$89$38 – $186
Independent181$71$41 – $156

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$155
Median cash price$87
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

947 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $99 and the average of the middle 60% is $107; most fall between $46 and $201.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 947 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
$32$53$99$176$298

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $298).

Of the 996 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 947 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 33 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,267 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,336 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,267
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code1,336

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 Dev Eval Scrms Phys/Qhp in Person|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 implanted heart rhythm monitor (CPT 93291) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93291-in-office-check-of-an-implanted-heart-rhythm-monitor