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Remote pacemaker or defibrillator check, technical part

CPT 93296the billing code this page is about

The technical service of receiving and processing remotely transmitted data from an implanted pacemaker or defibrillator; one unit covers up to 90 days of monitoring, without the physician's interpretation.

Hospitals typically charge $97 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,182 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $108. Most fall between $46 and $205 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,182
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 1,182 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$51$97$185$321

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $321).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $36: 65 hospitals$27$36 – $47: 130 hospitals$47 – $63: 127 hospitals$47$63 – $83: 136 hospitals$83 – $109: 119 hospitals$83$109 – $144: 137 hospitals$144 – $191: 125 hospitals$144$191 – $252: 134 hospitals$252 – $333: 36 hospitals$252$333 – $441: 59 hospitals$333median $97price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,068 of 1,182 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$3665
$36$47130
$47$63127
$63$83136
$83$109119
$109$144137
$144$191125
$191$252134
$252$33336
$333$44159

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$97
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 $97.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $76 across 11 hospitalsNH$76Washington: median $72 across 17 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: median $109 across 11 hospitalsID$109Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $139 across 44 hospitalsMN$139Illinois: median $104 across 43 hospitalsIL$104Wisconsin: median $140 across 68 hospitalsWI$140Michigan: median $86 across 50 hospitalsMI$86New York: median $76 across 59 hospitalsNY$76Massachusetts: median $116 across 32 hospitalsMA$116Oregon: median $71 across 26 hospitalsOR$71Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $58 across 24 hospitalsIA$58Indiana: median $102 across 38 hospitalsIN$102Ohio: median $139 across 70 hospitalsOH$139Pennsylvania: median $81 across 58 hospitalsPA$81New Jersey: median $43 across 23 hospitalsNJ$43Connecticut: median $77 across 12 hospitalsCT$77Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $202 across 75 hospitalsCA$202Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $83 across 28 hospitalsCO$83Nebraska: median $50 across 14 hospitalsNE$50Missouri: median $63 across 28 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $87 across 21 hospitalsKY$87West Virginia: median $46 across 23 hospitalsWV$46Virginia: median $158 across 26 hospitalsVA$158Maryland: 3 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $52 across 12 hospitalsKS$52Arkansas: median $29 across 14 hospitalsAR$29Tennessee: median $34 across 11 hospitalsTN$34North Carolina: median $68 across 23 hospitalsNC$68South Carolina: median $109 across 21 hospitalsSC$109Oklahoma: median $48 across 23 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: median $30 across 21 hospitalsLA$30Mississippi: median $44 across 11 hospitalsMS$44Alabama: median $69 across 11 hospitalsAL$69Georgia: median $74 across 49 hospitalsGA$74Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $191 across 73 hospitalsTX$191Florida: median $205 across 36 hospitalsFL$205
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $97. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL36$205+111%$113 – $461
California CA75$202+107%$77 – $364
Texas TX73$191+96%$115 – $296
Virginia VA26$158+62%$43 – $182
Wisconsin WI68$140+44%$108 – $303
Ohio OH70$139+43%$63 – $200
Minnesota MN44$139+43%$108 – $191
Massachusetts MA32$116+19%$65 – $447
Idaho ID11$109+12%$105 – $186
South Carolina SC21$109+11%$83 – $214
Illinois IL43$104+7%$46 – $228
Indiana IN38$102+5%$46 – $159
Kentucky KY21$87−11%$46 – $150
Michigan MI50$86−12%$43 – $183
Colorado CO28$83−15%$68 – $231
Pennsylvania PA58$81−17%$42 – $347
Connecticut CT12$77−21%$59 – $135
New Hampshire NH11$76−22%$74 – $314
New York NY59$76−22%$44 – $205
Georgia GA49$74−24%$59 – $323
Washington WA17$72−26%$42 – $101
Oregon OR26$71−27%$36 – $237
Alabama AL11$69−30%$42 – $69
North Carolina NC23$68−31%$37 – $191
Missouri MO28$63−35%$35 – $131
Iowa IA24$58−41%$50 – $100
Kansas KS12$52−47%$21 – $73
Nebraska NE14$50−49%$48 – $108
Oklahoma OK23$48−50%$29 – $97
West Virginia WV23$46−53%$32 – $76
Mississippi MS11$44−55%$28 – $54
New Jersey NJ23$43−56%$41 – $50
Tennessee TN11$34−65%$30 – $63
Louisiana LA21$30−69%$22 – $72
Arkansas AR14$29−70%$29 – $59
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not 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 $97.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care990$98$46 – $205
Children’s29$236$110 – $510
Critical access155$84$46 – $177
Ownership
For-profit95$104$46 – $240
Government162$75$42 – $147
Non-profit917$109$47 – $214
System affiliation
Part of a system995$106$46 – $205
Independent187$81$45 – $182

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$192
Median cash price$97
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

887 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $124 and the average of the middle 60% is $123; most fall between $50 and $219.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 887 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
$37$59$124$202$354

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $354).

Of the 923 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 887 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,182 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,237 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,182
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code1,237

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 Rem Interrog Pm/Ldls Pm/Ids <90 D Tech Review.

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, “Remote pacemaker or defibrillator check, technical part (CPT 93296) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93296-remote-pacemaker-or-defibrillator-check-technical-part