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Procedure price report · Diagnostic ultrasound (echocardiogram) or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of heart

Limited or follow-up heart ultrasound

CPT 93308the billing code this page is about

A shorter ultrasound of the heart through the chest wall looking at selected structures or rechecking a prior finding, rather than a complete study.

Hospitals typically charge $564 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,258 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $580. Most fall between $263 and $991 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,258
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,258 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
$148$305$564$884$1,528

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $1,528).

How the prices are spread

$74 – $104: 78 hospitals$74$104 – $145: 74 hospitals$145 – $203: 143 hospitals$145$203 – $283: 266 hospitals$283 – $396: 424 hospitals$283$396 – $552: 457 hospitals$552 – $771: 564 hospitals$552$771 – $1,077: 506 hospitals$1,077 – $1,505: 254 hospitals$1,077$1,505 – $2,102: 168 hospitals$1,505median $564price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,934 of 3,258 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$74$10478
$104$14574
$145$203143
$203$283266
$283$396424
$396$552457
$552$771564
$771$1,077506
$1,077$1,505254
$1,505$2,102168

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$564
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $564.

Alaska: median $325 across 15 hospitalsAK$325Maine: median $497 across 28 hospitalsME$497Vermont: median $440 across 11 hospitalsVT$440New Hampshire: median $416 across 23 hospitalsNH$416Washington: median $591 across 72 hospitalsWA$591Idaho: median $694 across 22 hospitalsID$694Montana: median $257 across 30 hospitalsMT$257North Dakota: median $350 across 30 hospitalsND$350Minnesota: median $540 across 107 hospitalsMN$540Illinois: median $617 across 127 hospitalsIL$617Wisconsin: median $667 across 107 hospitalsWI$667Michigan: median $480 across 94 hospitalsMI$480New York: median $495 across 100 hospitalsNY$495Massachusetts: median $739 across 51 hospitalsMA$739Oregon: median $281 across 54 hospitalsOR$281Nevada: median $660 across 17 hospitalsNV$660Wyoming: median $285 across 15 hospitalsWY$285South Dakota: median $807 across 40 hospitalsSD$807Iowa: median $549 across 91 hospitalsIA$549Indiana: median $530 across 92 hospitalsIN$530Ohio: median $761 across 131 hospitalsOH$761Pennsylvania: median $507 across 116 hospitalsPA$507New Jersey: median $309 across 56 hospitalsNJ$309Connecticut: median $432 across 21 hospitalsCT$432Rhode Island: median $305 across 10 hospitalsRI$305California: median $884 across 202 hospitalsCA$884Utah: median $744 across 40 hospitalsUT$744Colorado: median $721 across 68 hospitalsCO$721Nebraska: median $847 across 77 hospitalsNE$847Missouri: median $547 across 81 hospitalsMO$547Kentucky: median $658 across 64 hospitalsKY$658West Virginia: median $466 across 34 hospitalsWV$466Virginia: median $596 across 70 hospitalsVA$596Maryland: median $98 across 39 hospitalsMD$98Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $394 across 55 hospitalsAZ$394New Mexico: median $360 across 29 hospitalsNM$360Kansas: median $576 across 76 hospitalsKS$576Arkansas: median $316 across 32 hospitalsAR$316Tennessee: median $319 across 78 hospitalsTN$319North Carolina: median $487 across 89 hospitalsNC$487South Carolina: median $599 across 51 hospitalsSC$599Oklahoma: median $414 across 60 hospitalsOK$414Louisiana: median $298 across 48 hospitalsLA$298Mississippi: median $262 across 51 hospitalsMS$262Alabama: median $532 across 38 hospitalsAL$532Georgia: median $395 across 99 hospitalsGA$395Hawaii: median $577 across 16 hospitalsHI$577Texas: median $803 across 229 hospitalsTX$803Florida: median $884 across 165 hospitalsFL$884
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $564. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA202$884+57%$401 – $1,910
Florida FL165$884+57%$603 – $2,909
Nebraska NE77$847+50%$627 – $1,033
South Dakota SD40$807+43%$479 – $1,170
Texas TX229$803+42%$373 – $1,569
Ohio OH131$761+35%$378 – $939
Utah UT40$744+32%$623 – $875
Massachusetts MA51$739+31%$389 – $1,098
Colorado CO68$721+28%$291 – $1,056
Idaho ID22$694+23%$447 – $1,206
Wisconsin WI107$667+18%$359 – $1,055
Nevada NV17$660+17%$259 – $1,649
Kentucky KY64$658+17%$317 – $1,079
Illinois IL127$617+9%$311 – $1,219
South Carolina SC51$599+6%$497 – $790
Virginia VA70$596+6%$362 – $1,145
Washington WA72$591+5%$156 – $764
Hawaii HI16$577+2%$382 – $783
Kansas KS76$576+2%$251 – $858
Iowa IA91$549−3%$250 – $813
Missouri MO81$547−3%$256 – $835
Minnesota MN107$540−4%$280 – $826
Alabama AL38$532−6%$258 – $932
Indiana IN92$530−6%$262 – $809
Pennsylvania PA116$507−10%$275 – $1,229
Maine ME28$497−12%$235 – $705
New York NY100$495−12%$222 – $876
North Carolina NC89$487−14%$285 – $699
Michigan MI94$480−15%$238 – $754
West Virginia WV34$466−17%$246 – $675
Vermont VT11$440−22%$54 – $1,133
Connecticut CT21$432−23%$224 – $707
New Hampshire NH23$416−26%$45 – $1,118
Oklahoma OK60$414−27%$263 – $688
Georgia GA99$395−30%$253 – $1,376
Arizona AZ55$394−30%$213 – $1,128
New Mexico NM29$360−36%$182 – $586
North Dakota ND30$350−38%$262 – $632
Alaska AK15$325−42%$182 – $1,466
Tennessee TN78$319−44%$175 – $719
Arkansas AR32$316−44%$200 – $737
New Jersey NJ56$309−45%$264 – $565
Rhode Island RI10$305−46%$75 – $457
Louisiana LA48$298−47%$150 – $640
Wyoming WY15$285−50%$219 – $492
Oregon OR54$281−50%$57 – $803
Mississippi MS51$262−54%$137 – $405
Montana MT30$257−54%$41 – $586
Maryland MD39$98−83%$58 – $147
Delaware DE7not 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 $564.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,327$575$270 – $1,082
Children’s56$794$368 – $1,380
Critical access865$532$207 – $850
Ownership
For-profit449$805$343 – $2,176
Government579$497$220 – $839
Non-profit2,220$555$263 – $930
System affiliation
Part of a system2,683$584$278 – $1,031
Independent575$477$190 – $847

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,015
Median cash price$564
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,276 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $594 and the average of the middle 60% is $601; most fall between $282 and $970.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,276 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
$162$338$594$884$1,370

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($162 vs $1,370).

Of the 2,431 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,276 gave a usable cash price; 55 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,258 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (82%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,461 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,258
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here85
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded116
Hospitals that filed this code3,461

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 Diagnostic ultrasound (echocardiogram) or optical coherence tomography (OCT) of heart family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Echo Transthorc R-T 2d W/WO M-Mode Rec F-Up/Lmtd|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, “Limited or follow-up heart ultrasound (CPT 93308) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93308-limited-or-follow-up-heart-ultrasound