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Procedure price report · Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography

Medication given during heart cath with pressure readings

CPT 93463the billing code this page is about

Add-on service in which a drug is infused during a heart catheterization and the resulting changes in heart pressures and blood flow are measured; billed once per session.

Hospitals typically charge $520 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,566 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $686. Most fall between $188 and $1,788 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,566
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,566 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
$120$233$520$1,512$2,945

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $2,945).

How the prices are spread

$87 – $128: 90 hospitals$87$128 – $189: 146 hospitals$189 – $277: 178 hospitals$189$277 – $407: 183 hospitals$407 – $599: 169 hospitals$407$599 – $880: 143 hospitals$880 – $1,293: 123 hospitals$880$1,293 – $1,901: 169 hospitals$1,901 – $2,793: 120 hospitals$1,901$2,793 – $4,105: 90 hospitals$2,793median $520price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,411 of 1,566 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$87$12890
$128$189146
$189$277178
$277$407183
$407$599169
$599$880143
$880$1,293123
$1,293$1,901169
$1,901$2,793120
$2,793$4,10590

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $520.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,172 across 39 hospitalsWA$1,172Idaho: median $1,058 across 11 hospitalsID$1,058Montana: 6 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 $625 across 35 hospitalsMN$625Illinois: median $402 across 65 hospitalsIL$402Wisconsin: median $647 across 48 hospitalsWI$647Michigan: median $337 across 60 hospitalsMI$337New York: median $423 across 35 hospitalsNY$423Massachusetts: median $335 across 16 hospitalsMA$335Oregon: median $520 across 30 hospitalsOR$520Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $550 across 19 hospitalsIA$550Indiana: median $559 across 50 hospitalsIN$559Ohio: median $789 across 81 hospitalsOH$789Pennsylvania: median $687 across 70 hospitalsPA$687New Jersey: median $162 across 37 hospitalsNJ$162Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $722 across 128 hospitalsCA$722Utah: median $2,740 across 16 hospitalsUT$2,740Colorado: median $1,438 across 33 hospitalsCO$1,438Nebraska: median $627 across 16 hospitalsNE$627Missouri: median $478 across 37 hospitalsMO$478Kentucky: median $728 across 28 hospitalsKY$728West Virginia: median $272 across 11 hospitalsWV$272Virginia: median $590 across 36 hospitalsVA$590Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $602 across 35 hospitalsAZ$602New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $145 across 12 hospitalsKS$145Arkansas: median $198 across 16 hospitalsAR$198Tennessee: median $239 across 39 hospitalsTN$239North Carolina: median $382 across 40 hospitalsNC$382South Carolina: median $510 across 32 hospitalsSC$510Oklahoma: median $305 across 29 hospitalsOK$305Louisiana: median $131 across 30 hospitalsLA$131Mississippi: median $189 across 21 hospitalsMS$189Alabama: median $365 across 21 hospitalsAL$365Georgia: median $301 across 60 hospitalsGA$301Hawaii: median $703 across 11 hospitalsHI$703Texas: median $1,088 across 151 hospitalsTX$1,088Florida: median $505 across 82 hospitalsFL$505
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $520. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT16$2,740+427%$663 – $2,740
Colorado CO33$1,438+177%$352 – $3,737
Washington WA39$1,172+125%$210 – $3,292
Texas TX151$1,088+109%$199 – $2,603
Idaho ID11$1,058+103%$585 – $2,360
Ohio OH81$789+52%$242 – $2,945
Kentucky KY28$728+40%$176 – $7,704
California CA128$722+39%$280 – $2,989
Hawaii HI11$703+35%$278 – $802
Pennsylvania PA70$687+32%$153 – $2,295
Wisconsin WI48$647+24%$223 – $1,636
Nebraska NE16$627+21%$166 – $1,201
Minnesota MN35$625+20%$244 – $1,112
Arizona AZ35$602+16%$302 – $1,782
Virginia VA36$590+13%$197 – $1,851
Indiana IN50$559+7%$106 – $1,614
Iowa IA19$550+6%$485 – $1,501
Oregon OR30$5200%$218 – $1,236
South Carolina SC32$510−2%$276 – $1,317
Florida FL82$505−3%$270 – $2,680
Missouri MO37$478−8%$195 – $1,372
New York NY35$423−19%$234 – $950
Illinois IL65$402−23%$203 – $1,095
North Carolina NC40$382−27%$108 – $1,443
Alabama AL21$365−30%$156 – $2,513
Michigan MI60$337−35%$132 – $951
Massachusetts MA16$335−36%$152 – $911
Oklahoma OK29$305−41%$169 – $913
Georgia GA60$301−42%$257 – $720
West Virginia WV11$272−48%$162 – $426
Tennessee TN39$239−54%$125 – $1,818
Arkansas AR16$198−62%$101 – $466
Mississippi MS21$189−64%$114 – $1,978
New Jersey NJ37$162−69%$107 – $2,316
Kansas KS12$145−72%$100 – $893
Louisiana LA30$131−75%$83 – $522
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $520.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,404$520$186 – $1,782
Children’s44$829$180 – $2,974
Critical access110$447$199 – $1,636
Ownership
For-profit181$974$196 – $2,989
Government172$329$157 – $1,228
Non-profit1,205$522$195 – $1,773
System affiliation
Part of a system1,375$542$195 – $1,851
Independent191$366$162 – $1,095

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$946
Median cash price$520
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

1,219 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $530 and the average of the middle 60% is $704; most fall between $203 and $1,788.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,219 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
$137$244$530$1,512$2,945

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $2,945).

Of the 1,304 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,219 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 59 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,566 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,718 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,566
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded111
Hospitals that filed this code1,718

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 cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Medication Admin & Hemodynamic Measurment.

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, “Medication given during heart cath with pressure readings (CPT 93463) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93463-medication-given-during-heart-cath-with-pressure-readings