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Procedure price report · Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography

Contrast injection for lung artery imaging during heart cath

CPT 93568the billing code this page is about

An add-on service billed with a heart catheterization when dye is injected and images of the lung arteries are taken and interpreted during the same procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,008 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,420 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,173. Most fall between $254 and $2,616 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,420
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 1,420 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
$136$341$1,008$2,409$3,779

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($136 vs $3,779).

How the prices are spread

$87 – $132: 70 hospitals$87$132 – $200: 85 hospitals$200 – $302: 94 hospitals$200$302 – $458: 130 hospitals$458 – $694: 129 hospitals$458$694 – $1,052: 151 hospitals$1,052 – $1,593: 151 hospitals$1,052$1,593 – $2,414: 192 hospitals$2,414 – $3,657: 187 hospitals$2,414$3,657 – $5,541: 90 hospitals$3,657median $1,008price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,279 of 1,420 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$87$13270
$132$20085
$200$30294
$302$458130
$458$694129
$694$1,052151
$1,052$1,593151
$1,593$2,414192
$2,414$3,657187
$3,657$5,54190

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,008.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $814 across 34 hospitalsWA$814Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $626 across 19 hospitalsMN$626Illinois: median $924 across 64 hospitalsIL$924Wisconsin: median $854 across 39 hospitalsWI$854Michigan: median $610 across 46 hospitalsMI$610New York: median $436 across 33 hospitalsNY$436Massachusetts: median $615 across 17 hospitalsMA$615Oregon: median $130 across 26 hospitalsOR$130Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,247 across 19 hospitalsIA$2,247Indiana: median $1,299 across 44 hospitalsIN$1,299Ohio: median $1,492 across 84 hospitalsOH$1,492Pennsylvania: median $612 across 56 hospitalsPA$612New Jersey: median $354 across 33 hospitalsNJ$354Connecticut: median $558 across 11 hospitalsCT$558Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,314 across 122 hospitalsCA$1,314Utah: median $3,326 across 11 hospitalsUT$3,326Colorado: median $1,194 across 32 hospitalsCO$1,194Nebraska: median $472 across 17 hospitalsNE$472Missouri: median $1,238 across 36 hospitalsMO$1,238Kentucky: median $1,181 across 27 hospitalsKY$1,181West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,818 across 35 hospitalsVA$1,818Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $463 across 35 hospitalsAZ$463New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,448 across 14 hospitalsKS$1,448Arkansas: median $328 across 12 hospitalsAR$328Tennessee: median $615 across 33 hospitalsTN$615North Carolina: median $2,759 across 37 hospitalsNC$2,759South Carolina: median $1,388 across 30 hospitalsSC$1,388Oklahoma: median $984 across 29 hospitalsOK$984Louisiana: median $693 across 29 hospitalsLA$693Mississippi: median $290 across 22 hospitalsMS$290Alabama: median $637 across 23 hospitalsAL$637Georgia: median $877 across 56 hospitalsGA$877Hawaii: median $676 across 11 hospitalsHI$676Texas: median $1,794 across 133 hospitalsTX$1,794Florida: median $1,877 across 69 hospitalsFL$1,877
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,008. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT11$3,326+230%$1,344 – $4,249
North Carolina NC37$2,759+174%$577 – $2,926
Iowa IA19$2,247+123%$288 – $3,184
Florida FL69$1,877+86%$875 – $3,515
Virginia VA35$1,818+80%$196 – $2,409
Texas TX133$1,794+78%$524 – $3,462
Ohio OH84$1,492+48%$599 – $2,950
Kansas KS14$1,448+44%$107 – $2,843
South Carolina SC30$1,388+38%$525 – $1,580
California CA122$1,314+30%$370 – $4,270
Indiana IN44$1,299+29%$138 – $3,218
Missouri MO36$1,238+23%$491 – $2,401
Colorado CO32$1,194+18%$428 – $3,666
Kentucky KY27$1,181+17%$127 – $3,779
Oklahoma OK29$984−2%$137 – $1,871
Illinois IL64$924−8%$496 – $3,028
Georgia GA56$877−13%$676 – $2,813
Wisconsin WI39$854−15%$216 – $1,029
Washington WA34$814−19%$218 – $2,232
Louisiana LA29$693−31%$164 – $1,768
Hawaii HI11$676−33%$47 – $772
Alabama AL23$637−37%$300 – $1,709
Minnesota MN19$626−38%$601 – $2,570
Massachusetts MA17$615−39%$170 – $2,346
Tennessee TN33$615−39%$130 – $1,818
Pennsylvania PA56$612−39%$294 – $1,921
Michigan MI46$610−39%$92 – $854
Connecticut CT11$558−45%$492 – $2,605
Nebraska NE17$472−53%$316 – $1,919
Arizona AZ35$463−54%$324 – $6,748
New York NY33$436−57%$180 – $1,391
New Jersey NJ33$354−65%$97 – $1,602
Arkansas AR12$328−68%$197 – $1,134
Mississippi MS22$290−71%$161 – $424
Oregon OR26$130−87%$86 – $1,257
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not 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 $1,008.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,277$1,023$270 – $2,616
Children’s43$1,794$246 – $4,626
Critical access91$854$166 – $2,420
Ownership
For-profit175$1,640$467 – $4,940
Government168$875$191 – $2,716
Non-profit1,068$938$241 – $2,521
System affiliation
Part of a system1,241$1,101$281 – $2,716
Independent179$581$173 – $2,129

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,788
Median cash price$1,008
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

1,107 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,029 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,208; most fall between $294 and $2,613.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,107 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
$143$370$1,029$2,316$3,666

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $3,666).

Of the 1,191 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,107 gave a usable cash price; 34 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 49 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,420 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (36%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,579 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,420
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded89
Hospitals that filed this code1,579

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 Njx Drg C-Cathj Nslctv P-Art Angiography.

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, “Contrast injection for lung artery imaging during heart cath (CPT 93568) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93568-contrast-injection-for-lung-artery-imaging-during-heart-cath