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Electrical testing of an under-the-skin defibrillator

CPT 93644the billing code this page is about

Testing of a defibrillator implanted just under the skin rather than with wires in the heart, including measuring the shock strength needed.

Hospitals typically charge $1,432 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 920 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,608. Most fall between $358 and $3,541 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
920
States
48
Filings dated
Aug 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 920 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$525$1,432$2,856$4,646

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $4,646).

How the prices are spread

$102 – $155: 61 hospitals$102$155 – $234: 47 hospitals$234 – $354: 30 hospitals$234$354 – $536: 49 hospitals$536 – $811: 66 hospitals$536$811 – $1,227: 78 hospitals$1,227 – $1,856: 165 hospitals$1,227$1,856 – $2,809: 137 hospitals$2,809 – $4,250: 125 hospitals$2,809$4,250 – $6,431: 72 hospitals$4,250median $1,432price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (830 of 920 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$102$15561
$155$23447
$234$35430
$354$53649
$536$81166
$811$1,22778
$1,227$1,856165
$1,856$2,809137
$2,809$4,250125
$4,250$6,43172

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,432.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,158 across 31 hospitalsWA$1,158Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,846 across 11 hospitalsMN$1,846Illinois: median $1,515 across 33 hospitalsIL$1,515Wisconsin: median $1,258 across 35 hospitalsWI$1,258Michigan: median $1,844 across 25 hospitalsMI$1,844New York: median $844 across 20 hospitalsNY$844Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $344 across 19 hospitalsOR$344Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $181 across 18 hospitalsIA$181Indiana: median $1,632 across 34 hospitalsIN$1,632Ohio: median $1,466 across 62 hospitalsOH$1,466Pennsylvania: median $350 across 39 hospitalsPA$350New Jersey: median $955 across 15 hospitalsNJ$955Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,636 across 82 hospitalsCA$2,636Utah: median $3,642 across 12 hospitalsUT$3,642Colorado: median $4,523 across 24 hospitalsCO$4,523Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $759 across 20 hospitalsMO$759Kentucky: median $3,972 across 18 hospitalsKY$3,972West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,017 across 29 hospitalsVA$1,017Maryland: 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 $1,281 across 19 hospitalsAZ$1,281New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $544 across 10 hospitalsTN$544North Carolina: median $2,845 across 27 hospitalsNC$2,845South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $88 across 15 hospitalsOK$88Louisiana: median $472 across 18 hospitalsLA$472Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $176 across 46 hospitalsGA$176Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,869 across 98 hospitalsTX$1,869Florida: median $1,580 across 61 hospitalsFL$1,580
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,432. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO24$4,523+216%$1,717 – $6,269
Kentucky KY18$3,972+177%$804 – $4,619
Utah UT12$3,642+154%$3,642 – $3,642
North Carolina NC27$2,845+99%$1,245 – $2,964
California CA82$2,636+84%$1,366 – $4,934
Texas TX98$1,869+31%$1,372 – $4,066
Minnesota MN11$1,846+29%$808 – $3,556
Michigan MI25$1,844+29%$742 – $2,728
Indiana IN34$1,632+14%$797 – $2,722
Florida FL61$1,580+10%$936 – $4,864
Illinois IL33$1,515+6%$391 – $2,671
Ohio OH62$1,466+2%$244 – $3,752
Arizona AZ19$1,281−11%$295 – $2,590
Wisconsin WI35$1,258−12%$392 – $1,554
Washington WA31$1,158−19%$670 – $1,773
Virginia VA29$1,017−29%$565 – $1,423
New Jersey NJ15$955−33%$413 – $30,180
New York NY20$844−41%$525 – $2,578
Missouri MO20$759−47%$125 – $3,109
Tennessee TN10$544−62%$78 – $1,064
Louisiana LA18$472−67%$243 – $1,207
Pennsylvania PA39$350−76%$86 – $989
Oregon OR19$344−76%$154 – $2,034
Iowa IA18$181−87%$181 – $1,137
Georgia GA46$176−88%$133 – $3,432
Oklahoma OK15$88−94%$88 – $1,015
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,432.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care835$1,473$350 – $3,642
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access62$1,258$392 – $1,869
Ownership
For-profit104$1,869$391 – $5,930
Government95$1,367$180 – $2,845
Non-profit715$1,388$391 – $3,537
System affiliation
Part of a system837$1,432$350 – $3,470
Independent83$1,466$380 – $4,400

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,590
Median cash price$1,432
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

744 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,472 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,631; most fall between $358 and $3,432.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 744 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$581$1,472$2,845$4,257

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 30× what the cheapest tenth charges ($143 vs $4,257).

Of the 806 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 744 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 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

920 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,024 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted920
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,024

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 Other diagnostic cardiovascular procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ep Eval Subq Implantable Defibrillator|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, “Electrical testing of an under-the-skin defibrillator (CPT 93644) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93644-electrical-testing-of-an-under-the-skin-defibrillator