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

Limited Doppler blood flow study of the heart, add-on

CPT 93321the billing code this page is about

An add-on limited or follow-up Doppler measurement of blood flow in the heart, performed along with a heart ultrasound rather than as a stand-alone test.

Hospitals typically charge $304 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,370 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $322. Most fall between $134 and $577 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,370
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 2,370 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
$67$169$304$498$831

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($67 vs $831).

How the prices are spread

$39 – $55: 52 hospitals$39$55 – $78: 109 hospitals$78 – $111: 120 hospitals$78$111 – $158: 159 hospitals$158 – $224: 250 hospitals$158$224 – $318: 418 hospitals$318 – $452: 422 hospitals$318$452 – $643: 326 hospitals$643 – $913: 196 hospitals$643$913 – $1,297: 82 hospitals$913median $304price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,134 of 2,370 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$39$5552
$55$78109
$78$111120
$111$158159
$158$224250
$224$318418
$318$452422
$452$643326
$643$913196
$913$1,29782

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $304.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $184 across 18 hospitalsME$184Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $302 across 13 hospitalsNH$302Washington: median $279 across 50 hospitalsWA$279Idaho: median $348 across 16 hospitalsID$348Montana: median $214 across 11 hospitalsMT$214North Dakota: median $137 across 10 hospitalsND$137Minnesota: median $275 across 94 hospitalsMN$275Illinois: median $328 across 92 hospitalsIL$328Wisconsin: median $283 across 101 hospitalsWI$283Michigan: median $250 across 66 hospitalsMI$250New York: median $173 across 61 hospitalsNY$173Massachusetts: median $210 across 46 hospitalsMA$210Oregon: median $156 across 38 hospitalsOR$156Nevada: median $386 across 13 hospitalsNV$386Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $495 across 31 hospitalsSD$495Iowa: median $304 across 65 hospitalsIA$304Indiana: median $225 across 75 hospitalsIN$225Ohio: median $311 across 111 hospitalsOH$311Pennsylvania: median $308 across 84 hospitalsPA$308New Jersey: median $521 across 37 hospitalsNJ$521Connecticut: median $91 across 22 hospitalsCT$91Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $534 across 162 hospitalsCA$534Utah: median $272 across 33 hospitalsUT$272Colorado: median $262 across 51 hospitalsCO$262Nebraska: median $256 across 40 hospitalsNE$256Missouri: median $328 across 62 hospitalsMO$328Kentucky: median $502 across 33 hospitalsKY$502West Virginia: median $338 across 24 hospitalsWV$338Virginia: median $373 across 64 hospitalsVA$373Maryland: median $39 across 31 hospitalsMD$39Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $173 across 37 hospitalsAZ$173New Mexico: median $93 across 13 hospitalsNM$93Kansas: median $420 across 33 hospitalsKS$420Arkansas: median $188 across 19 hospitalsAR$188Tennessee: median $149 across 53 hospitalsTN$149North Carolina: median $246 across 71 hospitalsNC$246South Carolina: median $352 across 40 hospitalsSC$352Oklahoma: median $292 across 44 hospitalsOK$292Louisiana: median $144 across 37 hospitalsLA$144Mississippi: median $137 across 31 hospitalsMS$137Alabama: median $183 across 22 hospitalsAL$183Georgia: median $317 across 71 hospitalsGA$317Hawaii: median $330 across 10 hospitalsHI$330Texas: median $491 across 160 hospitalsTX$491Florida: median $488 across 137 hospitalsFL$488
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $304. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA162$534+76%$263 – $905
New Jersey NJ37$521+71%$94 – $732
Kentucky KY33$502+65%$214 – $1,269
South Dakota SD31$495+63%$190 – $720
Texas TX160$491+61%$349 – $820
Florida FL137$488+60%$284 – $1,599
Kansas KS33$420+38%$220 – $772
Nevada NV13$386+27%$153 – $532
Virginia VA64$373+22%$190 – $593
South Carolina SC40$352+16%$225 – $559
Idaho ID16$348+14%$238 – $765
West Virginia WV24$338+11%$246 – $469
Hawaii HI10$330+8%$285 – $356
Illinois IL92$328+8%$199 – $693
Missouri MO62$328+8%$119 – $636
Georgia GA71$317+4%$98 – $416
Ohio OH111$311+2%$194 – $426
Pennsylvania PA84$308+1%$81 – $602
Iowa IA65$3040%$176 – $403
New Hampshire NH13$302−1%$196 – $667
Oklahoma OK44$292−4%$87 – $390
Wisconsin WI101$283−7%$179 – $418
Washington WA50$279−8%$200 – $402
Minnesota MN94$275−9%$150 – $396
Utah UT33$272−11%$231 – $284
Colorado CO51$262−14%$158 – $541
Nebraska NE40$256−16%$205 – $411
Michigan MI66$250−18%$62 – $438
North Carolina NC71$246−19%$137 – $399
Indiana IN75$225−26%$126 – $426
Montana MT11$214−30%$29 – $431
Massachusetts MA46$210−31%$47 – $323
Arkansas AR19$188−38%$70 – $356
Maine ME18$184−40%$47 – $425
Alabama AL22$183−40%$117 – $297
Arizona AZ37$173−43%$118 – $1,091
New York NY61$173−43%$59 – $679
Oregon OR38$156−49%$67 – $242
Tennessee TN53$149−51%$101 – $833
Louisiana LA37$144−53%$67 – $259
North Dakota ND10$137−55%$65 – $349
Mississippi MS31$137−55%$114 – $202
New Mexico NM13$93−69%$63 – $231
Connecticut CT22$91−70%$58 – $603
Maryland MD31$39−87%$27 – $71
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not 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 $304.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,833$317$137 – $602
Children’s49$396$261 – $791
Critical access481$279$118 – $464
Ownership
For-profit288$590$211 – $1,737
Government306$260$109 – $448
Non-profit1,769$295$126 – $537
System affiliation
Part of a system2,066$313$138 – $583
Independent304$276$80 – $532

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$538
Median cash price$304
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

1,784 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $307 and the average of the middle 60% is $321; most fall between $143 and $553.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,784 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
$73$177$307$491$723

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($73 vs $723).

Of the 1,933 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,784 gave a usable cash price; 74 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 75 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,370 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (60%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,626 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,370
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here122
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded131
Hospitals that filed this code2,626

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 Doppler Echo Pulse Wave W/Spectral F-Up/Lmtd Std|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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Limited Doppler blood flow study of the heart, add-on (CPT 93321) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93321-limited-doppler-blood-flow-study-of-the-heart-add-on