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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic cardiovascular procedures

Follow-up electrical testing of an implanted defibrillator

CPT 93642the billing code this page is about

Office or lab testing of an already implanted defibrillator system, which may include triggering and stopping an abnormal rhythm to confirm the device works.

Hospitals typically charge $2,226 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,598 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,340. Most fall between $1,065 and $4,068 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,598
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 1,598 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
$733$1,247$2,226$3,768$6,520

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($733 vs $6,520).

How the prices are spread

$441 – $595: 51 hospitals$441$595 – $804: 46 hospitals$804 – $1,086: 152 hospitals$804$1,086 – $1,467: 193 hospitals$1,467 – $1,982: 218 hospitals$1,467$1,982 – $2,678: 182 hospitals$2,678 – $3,617: 246 hospitals$2,678$3,617 – $4,887: 184 hospitals$4,887 – $6,601: 93 hospitals$4,887$6,601 – $8,918: 77 hospitals$6,601median $2,226price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,442 of 1,598 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$441$59551
$595$80446
$804$1,086152
$1,086$1,467193
$1,467$1,982218
$1,982$2,678182
$2,678$3,617246
$3,617$4,887184
$4,887$6,60193
$6,601$8,91877

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,244
Median cash price$2,226
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.79×

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 $2,226.

Alaska: 3 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: median $1,434 across 10 hospitalsNH$1,434Washington: median $1,982 across 35 hospitalsWA$1,982Idaho: median $3,738 across 13 hospitalsID$3,738Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,522 across 36 hospitalsMN$1,522Illinois: median $2,620 across 53 hospitalsIL$2,620Wisconsin: median $1,560 across 46 hospitalsWI$1,560Michigan: median $1,794 across 59 hospitalsMI$1,794New York: median $1,520 across 50 hospitalsNY$1,520Massachusetts: median $3,140 across 17 hospitalsMA$3,140Oregon: median $2,801 across 30 hospitalsOR$2,801Nevada: median $1,675 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,675Wyoming: 4 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 $1,938 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,938Indiana: median $1,990 across 48 hospitalsIN$1,990Ohio: median $3,122 across 81 hospitalsOH$3,122Pennsylvania: median $1,670 across 77 hospitalsPA$1,670New Jersey: median $1,614 across 38 hospitalsNJ$1,614Connecticut: median $1,865 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,865Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,116 across 135 hospitalsCA$3,116Utah: median $2,243 across 12 hospitalsUT$2,243Colorado: median $1,884 across 34 hospitalsCO$1,884Nebraska: median $1,783 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,783Missouri: median $1,500 across 35 hospitalsMO$1,500Kentucky: median $2,332 across 26 hospitalsKY$2,332West Virginia: median $1,468 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,468Virginia: median $1,236 across 40 hospitalsVA$1,236Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,572 across 36 hospitalsAZ$1,572New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $6,434 across 13 hospitalsKS$6,434Arkansas: median $1,474 across 15 hospitalsAR$1,474Tennessee: median $840 across 38 hospitalsTN$840North Carolina: median $2,630 across 44 hospitalsNC$2,630South Carolina: median $2,715 across 38 hospitalsSC$2,715Oklahoma: median $893 across 30 hospitalsOK$893Louisiana: median $1,056 across 24 hospitalsLA$1,056Mississippi: median $931 across 15 hospitalsMS$931Alabama: median $1,115 across 20 hospitalsAL$1,115Georgia: median $3,353 across 57 hospitalsGA$3,353Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,785 across 153 hospitalsTX$3,785Florida: median $3,987 across 115 hospitalsFL$3,987
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,226. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kansas KS13$6,434+189%$998 – $9,199
Florida FL115$3,987+79%$1,992 – $7,105
Texas TX153$3,785+70%$1,179 – $5,170
Idaho ID13$3,738+68%$2,721 – $5,753
Georgia GA57$3,353+51%$1,247 – $4,467
Massachusetts MA17$3,140+41%$1,998 – $7,462
Ohio OH81$3,122+40%$1,398 – $4,682
California CA135$3,116+40%$1,556 – $5,465
Oregon OR30$2,801+26%$1,446 – $3,667
South Carolina SC38$2,715+22%$1,857 – $3,410
North Carolina NC44$2,630+18%$1,165 – $2,944
Illinois IL53$2,620+18%$1,027 – $4,198
Kentucky KY26$2,332+5%$1,349 – $19,257
Utah UT12$2,243+1%$1,518 – $2,604
Indiana IN48$1,990−11%$676 – $3,055
Washington WA35$1,982−11%$1,410 – $3,582
Iowa IA21$1,938−13%$469 – $3,231
Colorado CO34$1,884−15%$776 – $4,641
Connecticut CT11$1,865−16%$1,392 – $6,972
Michigan MI59$1,794−19%$945 – $3,584
Nebraska NE15$1,783−20%$870 – $2,297
Nevada NV11$1,675−25%$1,324 – $5,557
Pennsylvania PA77$1,670−25%$889 – $5,273
New Jersey NJ38$1,614−27%$1,344 – $3,430
Arizona AZ36$1,572−29%$923 – $3,574
Wisconsin WI46$1,560−30%$1,065 – $2,100
Minnesota MN36$1,522−32%$1,449 – $2,917
New York NY50$1,520−32%$1,244 – $3,861
Missouri MO35$1,500−33%$1,259 – $2,726
Arkansas AR15$1,474−34%$689 – $1,760
West Virginia WV10$1,468−34%$855 – $3,055
New Hampshire NH10$1,434−36%$465 – $7,825
Virginia VA40$1,236−44%$667 – $1,546
Alabama AL20$1,115−50%$610 – $2,474
Louisiana LA24$1,056−53%$856 – $2,198
Mississippi MS15$931−58%$787 – $1,032
Oklahoma OK30$893−60%$438 – $2,122
Tennessee TN38$840−62%$484 – $1,626
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not 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 $2,226.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,446$2,237$1,071 – $4,068
Children’s36$3,003$1,261 – $6,168
Critical access108$1,610$1,065 – $3,230
Ownership
For-profit249$3,298$1,324 – $7,461
Government170$1,868$1,032 – $3,490
Non-profit1,171$2,111$1,056 – $3,912
System affiliation
Part of a system1,419$2,248$1,068 – $4,166
Independent179$2,075$980 – $3,861

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,162
Median cash price$2,226
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

1,177 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,442 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,466; most fall between $1,068 and $4,017.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,177 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
$759$1,310$2,442$3,707$5,803

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($759 vs $5,803).

Of the 1,258 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,177 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,598 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 1,691 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,598
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded55
Hospitals that filed this code1,691

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ep Eval 1/2 Chmb Transvns Pac Cvdfb|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, “Follow-up electrical testing of an implanted defibrillator (CPT 93642) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93642-follow-up-electrical-testing-of-an-implanted-defibrillator