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

Esophageal heart echo for birth defect, reading only

CPT 93317the billing code this page is about

Covers only the image recording, interpretation and written report for an ultrasound of the heart taken from a probe in the esophagus for a congenital heart defect.

Hospitals typically charge $553 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 369 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $567. Most fall between $172 and $1,101 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
369
States
45
Filings dated
Mar 2025 – 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 369 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
$92$218$553$1,036$1,350

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $1,350).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $95: 24 hospitals$66$95 – $136: 19 hospitals$136 – $194: 24 hospitals$136$194 – $277: 40 hospitals$277 – $395: 21 hospitals$277$395 – $564: 44 hospitals$564 – $806: 35 hospitals$564$806 – $1,151: 99 hospitals$1,151 – $1,644: 20 hospitals$1,151$1,644 – $2,348: 8 hospitals$1,644median $553price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (334 of 369 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$9524
$95$13619
$136$19424
$194$27740
$277$39521
$395$56444
$564$80635
$806$1,15199
$1,151$1,64420
$1,644$2,3488

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $553.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $219 across 13 hospitalsIL$219Wisconsin: median $1,037 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,037Michigan: median $249 across 15 hospitalsMI$249New York: median $350 across 14 hospitalsNY$350Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $219 across 15 hospitalsIA$219Indiana: median $98 across 13 hospitalsIN$98Ohio: median $395 across 11 hospitalsOH$395Pennsylvania: median $66 across 17 hospitalsPA$66New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $857 across 50 hospitalsCA$857Utah: median $1,105 across 22 hospitalsUT$1,105Colorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $172 across 10 hospitalsOK$172Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $474 across 15 hospitalsGA$474Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $621 across 17 hospitalsTX$621Florida: median $787 across 18 hospitalsFL$787
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $553. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT22$1,105+100%$1,105 – $1,105
Wisconsin WI31$1,037+88%$434 – $1,420
California CA50$857+55%$827 – $857
Florida FL18$787+42%$787 – $815
Texas TX17$621+12%$239 – $3,710
Georgia GA15$474−14%$474 – $1,209
Ohio OH11$395−29%$257 – $527
New York NY14$350−37%$88 – $756
Michigan MI15$249−55%$120 – $1,037
Iowa IA15$219−60%$219 – $219
Illinois IL13$219−60%$89 – $1,512
Oklahoma OK10$172−69%$172 – $172
Indiana IN13$98−82%$82 – $222
Pennsylvania PA17$66−88%$54 – $735
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $553.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care285$527$172 – $1,037
Children’s27$1,126$621 – $3,603
Critical access57$449$139 – $1,037
Ownership
For-profit28$300$89 – $1,105
Government47$458$125 – $1,209
Non-profit294$579$186 – $1,060
System affiliation
Part of a system312$598$172 – $1,105
Independent57$359$176 – $878

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$897
Median cash price$553
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

278 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $737 and the average of the middle 60% is $694; most fall between $210 and $1,105.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 278 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
$106$219$737$1,037$1,353

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $1,353).

Of the 293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 278 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

369 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 399 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted369
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code399

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Image Acquisj Interp&Report|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, “Esophageal heart echo for birth defect, reading only (CPT 93317) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93317-esophageal-heart-echo-for-birth-defect-reading-only