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Procedure price report · Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, coronary arteriography

Dye injection for lung vein imaging during heart cath

CPT 93574the billing code this page is about

An add-on service during heart catheterization in which the catheter is placed into a lung vein and contrast images are taken; billed once for each separate vein studied.

Hospitals typically charge $1,029 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 605 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,164. Most fall between $204 and $2,727 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
605
States
48
Filings dated
Nov 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 605 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
$124$345$1,029$2,379$5,857

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 47× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $5,857).

How the prices are spread

$86 – $136: 36 hospitals$86$136 – $214: 59 hospitals$214 – $337: 14 hospitals$214$337 – $531: 59 hospitals$531 – $838: 46 hospitals$531$838 – $1,322: 123 hospitals$1,322 – $2,084: 78 hospitals$1,322$2,084 – $3,286: 72 hospitals$3,286 – $5,182: 26 hospitals$3,286$5,182 – $8,171: 46 hospitals$5,182median $1,029price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (559 of 605 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$86$13636
$136$21459
$214$33714
$337$53159
$531$83846
$838$1,322123
$1,322$2,08478
$2,084$3,28672
$3,286$5,18226
$5,182$8,17146

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,029.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $119 across 15 hospitalsWA$119Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $628 across 13 hospitalsMN$628Illinois: median $910 across 19 hospitalsIL$910Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $742 across 20 hospitalsMI$742New York: median $435 across 12 hospitalsNY$435Massachusetts: median $1,000 across 13 hospitalsMA$1,000Oregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,686 across 28 hospitalsIN$1,686Ohio: median $975 across 52 hospitalsOH$975Pennsylvania: median $1,247 across 26 hospitalsPA$1,247New Jersey: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,165 across 48 hospitalsCA$1,165Utah: median $8,171 across 22 hospitalsUT$8,171Colorado: median $7,040 across 10 hospitalsCO$7,040Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $500 across 11 hospitalsMO$500Kentucky: median $1,705 across 15 hospitalsKY$1,705West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $202 across 16 hospitalsVA$202Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $67 across 20 hospitalsTN$67North Carolina: median $2,677 across 17 hospitalsNC$2,677South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,187 across 38 hospitalsGA$1,187Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,876 across 73 hospitalsTX$1,876Florida: median $1,029 across 43 hospitalsFL$1,029
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,029. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT22$8,171+694%$8,171 – $8,171
Colorado CO10$7,040+584%$450 – $12,057
North Carolina NC17$2,677+160%$2,113 – $2,789
Texas TX73$1,876+82%$355 – $2,793
Kentucky KY15$1,705+66%$191 – $3,779
Indiana IN28$1,686+64%$191 – $2,831
Pennsylvania PA26$1,247+21%$200 – $1,794
Georgia GA38$1,187+15%$1,187 – $2,727
California CA48$1,165+13%$141 – $1,726
Florida FL43$1,0290%$669 – $3,096
Massachusetts MA13$1,000−3%$1,000 – $1,000
Ohio OH52$975−5%$889 – $1,301
Illinois IL19$910−12%$134 – $910
Michigan MI20$742−28%$84 – $1,682
Minnesota MN13$628−39%$628 – $6,397
Missouri MO11$500−51%$341 – $2,395
New York NY12$435−58%$179 – $1,350
Virginia VA16$202−80%$67 – $460
Washington WA15$119−88%$115 – $179
Tennessee TN20$67−93%$67 – $434
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,029.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care523$1,029$204 – $2,677
Children’s39$2,129$194 – $6,829
Critical access39$1,050$191 – $4,885
Ownership
For-profit49$1,301$345 – $2,797
Government69$1,647$398 – $2,677
Non-profit483$1,000$200 – $2,704
System affiliation
Part of a system566$1,029$205 – $2,727
Independent39$1,316$197 – $4,074

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,715
Median cash price$1,029
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

508 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,029 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,140; most fall between $205 and $2,677.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 508 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$355$1,029$1,876$5,857

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 43× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $5,857).

Of the 528 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 508 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

605 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 664 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted605
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code664

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 Slctv Pulm Ven 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, “Dye injection for lung vein imaging during heart cath (CPT 93574) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93574-dye-injection-for-lung-vein-imaging-during-heart-cath