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Procedure price report · Swan-Ganz catheterization for monitoring

Bedside placement of a heart monitoring catheter

CPT 93503the billing code this page is about

Insertion of a flow-guided catheter through a vein into the pulmonary artery to monitor pressures and blood flow, typically done at the bedside.

Hospitals typically charge $1,963 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,874 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,122. Most fall between $953 and $3,590 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,874
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,874 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
$464$1,137$1,963$3,353$5,381

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($464 vs $5,381).

How the prices are spread

$242 – $339: 61 hospitals$242$339 – $476: 49 hospitals$476 – $669: 61 hospitals$476$669 – $940: 113 hospitals$940 – $1,319: 187 hospitals$940$1,319 – $1,853: 294 hospitals$1,853 – $2,602: 337 hospitals$1,853$2,602 – $3,654: 318 hospitals$3,654 – $5,131: 163 hospitals$3,654$5,131 – $7,206: 115 hospitals$5,131median $1,963price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,698 of 1,874 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$242$33961
$339$47649
$476$66961
$669$940113
$940$1,319187
$1,319$1,853294
$1,853$2,602337
$2,602$3,654318
$3,654$5,131163
$5,131$7,206115

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,608
Median cash price$1,963
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $1,963.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $457 across 12 hospitalsME$457Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,945 across 40 hospitalsWA$1,945Idaho: median $5,479 across 12 hospitalsID$5,479Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,782 across 32 hospitalsMN$1,782Illinois: median $1,659 across 75 hospitalsIL$1,659Wisconsin: median $2,099 across 69 hospitalsWI$2,099Michigan: median $1,428 across 64 hospitalsMI$1,428New York: median $1,838 across 59 hospitalsNY$1,838Massachusetts: median $3,079 across 26 hospitalsMA$3,079Oregon: median $1,531 across 36 hospitalsOR$1,531Nevada: median $1,712 across 13 hospitalsNV$1,712Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,973 across 23 hospitalsIA$1,973Indiana: median $1,437 across 59 hospitalsIN$1,437Ohio: median $2,823 across 100 hospitalsOH$2,823Pennsylvania: median $2,454 across 71 hospitalsPA$2,454New Jersey: median $1,825 across 51 hospitalsNJ$1,825Connecticut: median $1,896 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,896Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,792 across 152 hospitalsCA$2,792Utah: median $2,425 across 18 hospitalsUT$2,425Colorado: median $2,199 across 34 hospitalsCO$2,199Nebraska: median $992 across 18 hospitalsNE$992Missouri: median $2,013 across 48 hospitalsMO$2,013Kentucky: median $1,748 across 36 hospitalsKY$1,748West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,619 across 40 hospitalsVA$1,619Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,256 across 44 hospitalsAZ$1,256New Mexico: median $1,688 across 13 hospitalsNM$1,688Kansas: median $2,200 across 27 hospitalsKS$2,200Arkansas: median $1,366 across 15 hospitalsAR$1,366Tennessee: median $1,558 across 50 hospitalsTN$1,558North Carolina: median $1,746 across 42 hospitalsNC$1,746South Carolina: median $2,238 across 41 hospitalsSC$2,238Oklahoma: median $1,029 across 37 hospitalsOK$1,029Louisiana: median $1,094 across 44 hospitalsLA$1,094Mississippi: median $1,252 across 27 hospitalsMS$1,252Alabama: median $2,367 across 23 hospitalsAL$2,367Georgia: median $1,509 across 63 hospitalsGA$1,509Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,160 across 181 hospitalsTX$3,160Florida: median $2,933 across 89 hospitalsFL$2,933
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,963. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID12$5,479+179%$3,573 – $9,172
Texas TX181$3,160+61%$1,245 – $4,664
Massachusetts MA26$3,079+57%$1,196 – $4,823
Florida FL89$2,933+49%$1,434 – $5,010
Ohio OH100$2,823+44%$1,170 – $5,806
California CA152$2,792+42%$1,492 – $4,678
Pennsylvania PA71$2,454+25%$1,655 – $3,345
Utah UT18$2,425+24%$1,904 – $2,425
Alabama AL23$2,367+21%$1,337 – $3,461
South Carolina SC41$2,238+14%$1,872 – $3,348
Kansas KS27$2,200+12%$573 – $4,045
Colorado CO34$2,199+12%$1,119 – $2,571
Wisconsin WI69$2,099+7%$1,736 – $4,428
Missouri MO48$2,013+3%$1,248 – $3,517
Iowa IA23$1,973+1%$232 – $2,525
Washington WA40$1,945−1%$1,499 – $3,353
Connecticut CT11$1,896−3%$1,189 – $3,349
New York NY59$1,838−6%$1,088 – $3,361
New Jersey NJ51$1,825−7%$897 – $6,147
Minnesota MN32$1,782−9%$1,059 – $2,742
Kentucky KY36$1,748−11%$896 – $6,238
North Carolina NC42$1,746−11%$896 – $1,891
Nevada NV13$1,712−13%$303 – $4,784
New Mexico NM13$1,688−14%$846 – $4,373
Illinois IL75$1,659−16%$722 – $3,355
Virginia VA40$1,619−18%$1,029 – $2,237
Tennessee TN50$1,558−21%$282 – $1,881
Oregon OR36$1,531−22%$248 – $3,459
Georgia GA63$1,509−23%$866 – $2,509
Indiana IN59$1,437−27%$908 – $2,651
Michigan MI64$1,428−27%$1,157 – $2,376
Arkansas AR15$1,366−30%$346 – $2,752
Arizona AZ44$1,256−36%$792 – $7,206
Mississippi MS27$1,252−36%$718 – $2,791
Louisiana LA44$1,094−44%$636 – $2,226
Oklahoma OK37$1,029−48%$473 – $3,167
Nebraska NE18$992−49%$254 – $2,190
Maine ME12$457−77%$195 – $898
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $1,963.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,645$2,015$1,019 – $3,687
Children’s34$2,573$444 – $3,839
Critical access187$1,428$401 – $2,854
Ownership
For-profit252$2,297$1,277 – $5,246
Government233$1,748$730 – $2,933
Non-profit1,381$1,993$953 – $3,552
System affiliation
Part of a system1,613$1,996$995 – $3,590
Independent261$1,761$436 – $3,615

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,922
Median cash price$1,963
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

1,425 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,099 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,225; most fall between $1,024 and $3,590.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,425 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
$591$1,221$2,099$3,461$5,101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($591 vs $5,101).

Of the 1,519 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,425 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,874 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,001 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,874
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code2,001

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 Swan-Ganz catheterization for monitoring family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Insertion Flow Directed Catheter for Monitoring.

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, “Bedside placement of a heart monitoring catheter (CPT 93503) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93503-bedside-placement-of-a-heart-monitoring-catheter