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

Heart ultrasound during exercise or drug stress test

CPT 93350the billing code this page is about

Heart ultrasound images taken at rest and during exercise or medication-induced stress to assess how the heart pumps under exertion; this code covers the echo portion only.

Hospitals typically charge $1,208 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,431 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,274. Most fall between $564 and $2,301 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,431
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 2,431 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
$355$646$1,208$2,068$3,480

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($355 vs $3,480).

How the prices are spread

$188 – $261: 42 hospitals$188$261 – $362: 86 hospitals$362 – $504: 142 hospitals$362$504 – $700: 273 hospitals$700 – $972: 326 hospitals$700$972 – $1,350: 361 hospitals$1,350 – $1,876: 375 hospitals$1,350$1,876 – $2,606: 292 hospitals$2,606 – $3,620: 185 hospitals$2,606$3,620 – $5,029: 107 hospitals$3,620median $1,208price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,189 of 2,431 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$188$26142
$261$36286
$362$504142
$504$700273
$700$972326
$972$1,350361
$1,350$1,876375
$1,876$2,606292
$2,606$3,620185
$3,620$5,029107

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$558
Median cash price$1,208
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $1,208.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $557 across 15 hospitalsME$557Vermont: median $286 across 11 hospitalsVT$286New Hampshire: median $1,130 across 19 hospitalsNH$1,130Washington: median $1,006 across 51 hospitalsWA$1,006Idaho: median $1,836 across 17 hospitalsID$1,836Montana: median $898 across 21 hospitalsMT$898North Dakota: median $1,645 across 11 hospitalsND$1,645Minnesota: median $1,156 across 75 hospitalsMN$1,156Illinois: median $1,565 across 99 hospitalsIL$1,565Wisconsin: median $927 across 70 hospitalsWI$927Michigan: median $929 across 83 hospitalsMI$929New York: median $682 across 79 hospitalsNY$682Massachusetts: median $1,637 across 41 hospitalsMA$1,637Oregon: median $649 across 43 hospitalsOR$649Nevada: median $785 across 17 hospitalsNV$785Wyoming: median $830 across 11 hospitalsWY$830South Dakota: median $1,928 across 16 hospitalsSD$1,928Iowa: median $913 across 59 hospitalsIA$913Indiana: median $745 across 56 hospitalsIN$745Ohio: median $1,607 across 118 hospitalsOH$1,607Pennsylvania: median $966 across 100 hospitalsPA$966New Jersey: median $633 across 47 hospitalsNJ$633Connecticut: median $1,050 across 18 hospitalsCT$1,050Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,879 across 186 hospitalsCA$1,879Utah: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,364 across 49 hospitalsCO$1,364Nebraska: median $1,421 across 60 hospitalsNE$1,421Missouri: median $1,749 across 61 hospitalsMO$1,749Kentucky: median $1,275 across 49 hospitalsKY$1,275West Virginia: median $483 across 22 hospitalsWV$483Virginia: median $1,389 across 57 hospitalsVA$1,389Maryland: median $317 across 31 hospitalsMD$317Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $554 across 42 hospitalsAZ$554New Mexico: median $1,154 across 19 hospitalsNM$1,154Kansas: median $721 across 32 hospitalsKS$721Arkansas: median $335 across 10 hospitalsAR$335Tennessee: median $737 across 58 hospitalsTN$737North Carolina: median $1,031 across 66 hospitalsNC$1,031South Carolina: median $1,264 across 44 hospitalsSC$1,264Oklahoma: median $747 across 41 hospitalsOK$747Louisiana: median $560 across 41 hospitalsLA$560Mississippi: median $562 across 26 hospitalsMS$562Alabama: median $884 across 29 hospitalsAL$884Georgia: median $1,049 across 75 hospitalsGA$1,049Hawaii: median $1,394 across 13 hospitalsHI$1,394Texas: median $2,138 across 177 hospitalsTX$2,138Florida: median $2,657 across 140 hospitalsFL$2,657
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,208. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL140$2,657+120%$1,357 – $7,232
Texas TX177$2,138+77%$919 – $3,004
South Dakota SD16$1,928+60%$1,387 – $2,150
California CA186$1,879+56%$956 – $4,144
Idaho ID17$1,836+52%$951 – $1,910
Missouri MO61$1,749+45%$751 – $3,490
North Dakota ND11$1,645+36%$925 – $1,854
Massachusetts MA41$1,637+35%$1,008 – $2,007
Ohio OH118$1,607+33%$863 – $2,049
Illinois IL99$1,565+30%$596 – $2,815
Nebraska NE60$1,421+18%$1,206 – $1,859
Hawaii HI13$1,394+15%$1,097 – $1,637
Virginia VA57$1,389+15%$944 – $2,161
Colorado CO49$1,364+13%$581 – $3,789
Kentucky KY49$1,275+6%$657 – $2,894
South Carolina SC44$1,264+5%$1,191 – $1,685
Minnesota MN75$1,156−4%$844 – $1,939
New Mexico NM19$1,154−5%$571 – $1,772
New Hampshire NH19$1,130−7%$587 – $2,317
Connecticut CT18$1,050−13%$566 – $1,721
Georgia GA75$1,049−13%$405 – $1,922
North Carolina NC66$1,031−15%$717 – $1,355
Washington WA51$1,006−17%$606 – $1,400
Pennsylvania PA100$966−20%$599 – $2,537
Michigan MI83$929−23%$466 – $1,601
Wisconsin WI70$927−23%$733 – $2,283
Iowa IA59$913−24%$364 – $1,210
Montana MT21$898−26%$106 – $1,423
Alabama AL29$884−27%$536 – $2,132
Wyoming WY11$830−31%$460 – $1,249
Nevada NV17$785−35%$324 – $1,852
Oklahoma OK41$747−38%$477 – $1,367
Indiana IN56$745−38%$545 – $1,401
Tennessee TN58$737−39%$448 – $1,567
Kansas KS32$721−40%$307 – $2,956
New York NY79$682−44%$509 – $1,799
Oregon OR43$649−46%$207 – $1,400
New Jersey NJ47$633−48%$494 – $2,114
Mississippi MS26$562−53%$373 – $737
Louisiana LA41$560−54%$326 – $1,049
Maine ME15$557−54%$311 – $837
Arizona AZ42$554−54%$404 – $1,744
West Virginia WV22$483−60%$76 – $1,472
Arkansas AR10$335−72%$249 – $615
Maryland MD31$317−74%$218 – $531
Vermont VT11$286−76%$134 – $469
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT6not 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 $1,208.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,894$1,238$574 – $2,507
Children’s34$1,903$1,038 – $2,934
Critical access495$1,055$508 – $1,854
Ownership
For-profit362$1,874$732 – $6,124
Government400$1,031$514 – $1,676
Non-profit1,661$1,202$557 – $2,189
System affiliation
Part of a system2,052$1,264$591 – $2,411
Independent379$966$445 – $1,751

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,165
Median cash price$1,208
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

1,726 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,280 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,326; most fall between $605 and $2,222.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,726 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
$398$723$1,280$2,052$3,084

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($398 vs $3,084).

Of the 1,840 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,726 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,431 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,431
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here67
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 — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,589

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 Tthrc R-T 2d W/WO M-Mode Complete Rest&St|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, “Heart ultrasound during exercise or drug stress test (CPT 93350) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93350-heart-ultrasound-during-exercise-or-drug-stress-test