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Pacemaker check by telephone rhythm recording, up to 90 days

CPT 93293the billing code this page is about

Heart rhythm strips transmitted by phone from a pacemaker, recorded with and without a magnet, reviewed by a clinician; one unit covers a period of up to 90 days.

Hospitals typically charge $101 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 814 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $106. Most fall between $43 and $196 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
814
States
48
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 814 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
$33$46$101$176$339

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $339).

How the prices are spread

$25 – $33: 40 hospitals$25$33 – $44: 111 hospitals$44 – $59: 81 hospitals$44$59 – $80: 47 hospitals$80 – $107: 113 hospitals$80$107 – $143: 109 hospitals$143 – $192: 100 hospitals$143$192 – $257: 69 hospitals$257 – $345: 23 hospitals$257$345 – $462: 43 hospitals$345median $101price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (736 of 814 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$25$3340
$33$44111
$44$5981
$59$8047
$80$107113
$107$143109
$143$192100
$192$25769
$257$34523
$345$46243

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$101
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 $101.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $79 across 16 hospitalsWA$79Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $134 across 21 hospitalsMN$134Illinois: median $75 across 33 hospitalsIL$75Wisconsin: median $131 across 45 hospitalsWI$131Michigan: median $51 across 34 hospitalsMI$51New York: median $63 across 46 hospitalsNY$63Massachusetts: median $142 across 11 hospitalsMA$142Oregon: median $31 across 16 hospitalsOR$31Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $93 across 19 hospitalsIA$93Indiana: median $71 across 32 hospitalsIN$71Ohio: median $139 across 48 hospitalsOH$139Pennsylvania: median $66 across 59 hospitalsPA$66New Jersey: median $48 across 35 hospitalsNJ$48Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $273 across 65 hospitalsCA$273Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $109 across 21 hospitalsCO$109Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $56 across 13 hospitalsKY$56West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $110 across 24 hospitalsVA$110Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $120 across 11 hospitalsNC$120South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $40 across 21 hospitalsOK$40Louisiana: median $50 across 16 hospitalsLA$50Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $199 across 19 hospitalsGA$199Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $190 across 43 hospitalsTX$190Florida: median $174 across 29 hospitalsFL$174
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $101. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA65$273+170%$89 – $347
Georgia GA19$199+97%$44 – $462
Texas TX43$190+88%$176 – $441
Florida FL29$174+73%$59 – $270
Massachusetts MA11$142+41%$57 – $235
Ohio OH48$139+38%$103 – $182
Minnesota MN21$134+33%$108 – $157
Wisconsin WI45$131+30%$105 – $175
North Carolina NC11$120+19%$78 – $136
Virginia VA24$110+9%$95 – $166
Colorado CO21$109+7%$83 – $231
Iowa IA19$93−8%$38 – $129
Washington WA16$79−22%$56 – $130
Illinois IL33$75−26%$35 – $219
Indiana IN32$71−30%$46 – $131
Pennsylvania PA59$66−35%$36 – $254
New York NY46$63−38%$44 – $161
Kentucky KY13$56−44%$38 – $150
Michigan MI34$51−49%$44 – $145
Louisiana LA16$50−50%$31 – $116
New Jersey NJ35$48−52%$41 – $59
Oklahoma OK21$40−60%$28 – $94
Oregon OR16$31−69%$25 – $100
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $101.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care691$99$42 – $198
Children’s22$287$122 – $504
Critical access95$101$54 – $161
Ownership
For-profit72$100$42 – $235
Government100$72$38 – $149
Non-profit636$105$44 – $198
System affiliation
Part of a system705$105$44 – $198
Independent109$83$39 – $161

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$202
Median cash price$101
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

591 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $130 and the average of the middle 60% is $128; most fall between $50 and $223.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 591 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
$35$57$130$198$347

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $347).

Of the 633 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 591 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 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

814 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 875 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted814
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code875

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 Telehealth (includes telephone calls, online communication, remote monitoring and surveillance) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Transtelephonic Rhythm Strip Pacemaker Eval|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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Pacemaker check by telephone rhythm recording, up to 90 days (CPT 93293) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93293-pacemaker-check-by-telephone-rhythm-recording-up-to-90-days