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Procedure price report · Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography

Dye X-ray study of the heart arteries

CPT 93454the billing code this page is about

Contrast dye is injected through a catheter to X-ray the coronary arteries and look for blockages; this code covers the artery imaging without heart chamber catheterization.

Hospitals typically charge $6,941 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,956 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $7,261. Most fall between $3,671 and $12,141 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,956
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,956 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
$2,422$4,091$6,941$11,038$17,392

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,422 vs $17,392).

How the prices are spread

$1,404 – $1,863: 51 hospitals$1,404$1,863 – $2,473: 60 hospitals$2,473 – $3,282: 117 hospitals$2,473$3,282 – $4,356: 216 hospitals$4,356 – $5,782: 207 hospitals$4,356$5,782 – $7,674: 356 hospitals$7,674 – $10,186: 310 hospitals$7,674$10,186 – $13,519: 213 hospitals$13,519 – $17,944: 144 hospitals$13,519$17,944 – $23,816: 90 hospitals$17,944median $6,941price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,764 of 1,956 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,404$1,86351
$1,863$2,47360
$2,473$3,282117
$3,282$4,356216
$4,356$5,782207
$5,782$7,674356
$7,674$10,186310
$10,186$13,519213
$13,519$17,944144
$17,944$23,81690

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,312
Median cash price$6,941
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $6,941.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $8,192 across 43 hospitalsWA$8,192Idaho: median $14,000 across 13 hospitalsID$14,000Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,569 across 36 hospitalsMN$4,569Illinois: median $8,011 across 79 hospitalsIL$8,011Wisconsin: median $6,475 across 60 hospitalsWI$6,475Michigan: median $5,122 across 65 hospitalsMI$5,122New York: median $6,135 across 71 hospitalsNY$6,135Massachusetts: median $8,279 across 35 hospitalsMA$8,279Oregon: median $8,496 across 33 hospitalsOR$8,496Nevada: median $5,447 across 10 hospitalsNV$5,447Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $9,836 across 10 hospitalsSD$9,836Iowa: median $9,257 across 25 hospitalsIA$9,257Indiana: median $7,320 across 55 hospitalsIN$7,320Ohio: median $7,657 across 96 hospitalsOH$7,657Pennsylvania: median $5,460 across 91 hospitalsPA$5,460New Jersey: median $4,094 across 53 hospitalsNJ$4,094Connecticut: median $5,623 across 12 hospitalsCT$5,623Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $10,613 across 155 hospitalsCA$10,613Utah: median $6,941 across 27 hospitalsUT$6,941Colorado: median $7,929 across 33 hospitalsCO$7,929Nebraska: median $7,350 across 20 hospitalsNE$7,350Missouri: median $7,187 across 51 hospitalsMO$7,187Kentucky: median $8,241 across 31 hospitalsKY$8,241West Virginia: median $5,498 across 13 hospitalsWV$5,498Virginia: median $6,413 across 44 hospitalsVA$6,413Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $5,959 across 40 hospitalsAZ$5,959New Mexico: median $7,826 across 12 hospitalsNM$7,826Kansas: median $4,045 across 28 hospitalsKS$4,045Arkansas: median $4,091 across 22 hospitalsAR$4,091Tennessee: median $3,656 across 47 hospitalsTN$3,656North Carolina: median $7,345 across 55 hospitalsNC$7,345South Carolina: median $10,430 across 40 hospitalsSC$10,430Oklahoma: median $4,344 across 37 hospitalsOK$4,344Louisiana: median $4,891 across 39 hospitalsLA$4,891Mississippi: median $3,207 across 30 hospitalsMS$3,207Alabama: median $6,055 across 29 hospitalsAL$6,055Georgia: median $5,982 across 68 hospitalsGA$5,982Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $9,316 across 186 hospitalsTX$9,316Florida: median $8,052 across 95 hospitalsFL$8,052
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,941. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID13$14,000+102%$6,941 – $19,903
California CA155$10,613+53%$5,251 – $18,430
South Carolina SC40$10,430+50%$6,088 – $13,095
South Dakota SD10$9,836+42%$9,369 – $10,641
Texas TX186$9,316+34%$4,028 – $21,684
Iowa IA25$9,257+33%$5,108 – $9,580
Oregon OR33$8,496+22%$5,239 – $9,333
Massachusetts MA35$8,279+19%$4,259 – $16,464
Kentucky KY31$8,241+19%$4,297 – $19,181
Washington WA43$8,192+18%$6,547 – $10,989
Florida FL95$8,052+16%$5,690 – $15,020
Illinois IL79$8,011+15%$3,671 – $14,802
Colorado CO33$7,929+14%$6,622 – $14,972
New Mexico NM12$7,826+13%$3,382 – $15,703
Ohio OH96$7,657+10%$4,856 – $11,956
Nebraska NE20$7,350+6%$1,586 – $10,022
North Carolina NC55$7,345+6%$3,955 – $12,141
Indiana IN55$7,320+5%$4,271 – $10,369
Missouri MO51$7,187+4%$3,823 – $10,525
Utah UT27$6,9410%$6,941 – $6,941
Wisconsin WI60$6,475−7%$1,041 – $8,462
Virginia VA44$6,413−8%$5,061 – $7,644
New York NY71$6,135−12%$3,806 – $15,634
Alabama AL29$6,055−13%$3,764 – $13,168
Georgia GA68$5,982−14%$3,546 – $12,426
Arizona AZ40$5,959−14%$2,640 – $20,452
Connecticut CT12$5,623−19%$4,763 – $9,739
West Virginia WV13$5,498−21%$4,054 – $7,243
Pennsylvania PA91$5,460−21%$4,042 – $18,360
Nevada NV10$5,447−22%$3,526 – $15,213
Michigan MI65$5,122−26%$1,824 – $7,566
Louisiana LA39$4,891−30%$2,380 – $9,569
Minnesota MN36$4,569−34%$3,612 – $7,838
Oklahoma OK37$4,344−37%$3,733 – $7,765
New Jersey NJ53$4,094−41%$3,515 – $14,383
Arkansas AR22$4,091−41%$2,506 – $5,355
Kansas KS28$4,045−42%$1,970 – $10,985
Tennessee TN47$3,656−47%$1,818 – $6,145
Mississippi MS30$3,207−54%$2,508 – $4,597
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $6,941.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,767$6,941$3,744 – $12,141
Children’s43$7,335$2,339 – $19,097
Critical access139$6,795$1,824 – $9,836
Ownership
For-profit278$8,358$3,848 – $20,677
Government242$6,170$3,084 – $10,430
Non-profit1,429$6,941$3,738 – $11,857
System affiliation
Part of a system1,687$7,000$3,784 – $12,141
Independent269$6,510$3,071 – $12,006

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$13,420
Median cash price$6,941
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

1,472 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $7,376 and the average of the middle 60% is $7,652; most fall between $4,074 and $12,021.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,472 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
$2,765$4,664$7,376$11,160$16,397

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,765 vs $16,397).

Of the 1,590 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,472 gave a usable cash price; 54 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,956 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (49%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,118 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,956
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here81
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded75
Hospitals that filed this code2,118

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 cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cath Placement & Njx Coronary Art Angio Img S&I|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, “Dye X-ray study of the heart arteries (CPT 93454) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93454-dye-x-ray-study-of-the-heart-arteries