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

Esophageal heart echo for birth defect, probe placement

CPT 93316the billing code this page is about

Covers only placing the ultrasound probe down the esophagus for an echocardiogram of a congenital heart defect; the imaging and interpretation are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $649 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 367 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $726. Most fall between $125 and $1,662 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
367
States
41
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 367 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
$66$172$649$1,261$2,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($66 vs $2,458).

How the prices are spread

$48 – $72: 26 hospitals$48$72 – $107: 28 hospitals$107 – $161: 19 hospitals$107$161 – $241: 21 hospitals$241 – $361: 7 hospitals$241$361 – $541: 30 hospitals$541 – $811: 72 hospitals$541$811 – $1,216: 55 hospitals$1,216 – $1,821: 25 hospitals$1,216$1,821 – $2,729: 51 hospitals$1,821median $649price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (334 of 367 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$48$7226
$72$10728
$107$16119
$161$24121
$241$3617
$361$54130
$541$81172
$811$1,21655
$1,216$1,82125
$1,821$2,72951

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$558
Median cash price$649
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $649.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $254 across 20 hospitalsIL$254Wisconsin: median $236 across 32 hospitalsWI$236Michigan: median $236 across 15 hospitalsMI$236New York: median $649 across 30 hospitalsNY$649Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $66 across 17 hospitalsIA$66Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $607 across 14 hospitalsNJ$607Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,026 across 39 hospitalsCA$2,026Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,662 across 18 hospitalsVA$1,662Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 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 $688 across 13 hospitalsNC$688South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $47 across 12 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,196 across 25 hospitalsTX$1,196Florida: median $1,190 across 28 hospitalsFL$1,190
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $649. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$2,026+212%$1,180 – $2,458
Virginia VA18$1,662+156%$1,060 – $2,105
Texas TX25$1,196+84%$655 – $2,410
Florida FL28$1,190+83%$364 – $2,562
North Carolina NC13$688+6%$688 – $717
New York NY30$6490%$649 – $1,381
New Jersey NJ14$607−6%$607 – $781
Illinois IL20$254−61%$66 – $1,206
Michigan MI15$236−64%$125 – $751
Wisconsin WI32$236−64%$125 – $561
Iowa IA17$66−90%$66 – $109
Oklahoma OK12$47−93%$47 – $47
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $649.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care316$688$131 – $1,807
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access44$236$94 – $1,196
Ownership
For-profit45$1,196$125 – $3,731
Government47$649$125 – $831
Non-profit275$643$114 – $1,662
System affiliation
Part of a system314$655$125 – $2,026
Independent53$520$91 – $1,010

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,250
Median cash price$649
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

265 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $688 and the average of the middle 60% is $721; most fall between $94 and $1,824.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 265 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
$66$236$688$1,479$2,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($66 vs $2,458).

Of the 287 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 265 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

367 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 407 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted367
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code407

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 Transesophag Congen Probe Plcmt Only.

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, “Esophageal heart echo for birth defect, probe placement (CPT 93316) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93316-esophageal-heart-echo-for-birth-defect-probe-placement