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Procedure price report · Conversion of cardiac rhythm

Heart rhythm study with ablation for ventricular tachycardia

CPT 93654the billing code this page is about

A catheter electrical study with three-dimensional mapping, followed by ablation of the tissue in the lower heart chambers causing a fast rhythm.

Hospitals typically charge $29,031 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,602 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $30,112. Most fall between $14,691 and $52,300 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,602
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 1,602 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
$9,338$16,960$29,031$45,875$73,031

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9,338 vs $73,031).

How the prices are spread

$4,677 – $6,358: 28 hospitals$4,677$6,358 – $8,644: 37 hospitals$8,644 – $11,751: 71 hospitals$8,644$11,751 – $15,976: 148 hospitals$15,976 – $21,720: 180 hospitals$15,976$21,720 – $29,529: 275 hospitals$29,529 – $40,145: 306 hospitals$29,529$40,145 – $54,578: 182 hospitals$54,578 – $74,200: 138 hospitals$54,578$74,200 – $100,877: 77 hospitals$74,200median $29,031price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,442 of 1,602 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4,677$6,35828
$6,358$8,64437
$8,644$11,75171
$11,751$15,976148
$15,976$21,720180
$21,720$29,529275
$29,529$40,145306
$40,145$54,578182
$54,578$74,200138
$74,200$100,87777

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$26,704
Median cash price$29,031
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.09×

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 $29,031.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $22,992 across 38 hospitalsWA$22,992Idaho: median $62,005 across 10 hospitalsID$62,005Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $28,063 across 33 hospitalsMN$28,063Illinois: median $27,733 across 61 hospitalsIL$27,733Wisconsin: median $15,437 across 47 hospitalsWI$15,437Michigan: median $21,189 across 57 hospitalsMI$21,189New York: median $31,025 across 58 hospitalsNY$31,025Massachusetts: median $35,236 across 22 hospitalsMA$35,236Oregon: median $33,101 across 29 hospitalsOR$33,101Nevada: median $30,603 across 11 hospitalsNV$30,603Wyoming: 3 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 $34,433 across 21 hospitalsIA$34,433Indiana: median $27,778 across 42 hospitalsIN$27,778Ohio: median $36,001 across 75 hospitalsOH$36,001Pennsylvania: median $30,975 across 68 hospitalsPA$30,975New Jersey: median $27,177 across 35 hospitalsNJ$27,177Connecticut: median $21,989 across 12 hospitalsCT$21,989Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $34,625 across 138 hospitalsCA$34,625Utah: median $70,284 across 18 hospitalsUT$70,284Colorado: median $36,528 across 34 hospitalsCO$36,528Nebraska: median $9,173 across 11 hospitalsNE$9,173Missouri: median $24,991 across 35 hospitalsMO$24,991Kentucky: median $26,675 across 24 hospitalsKY$26,675West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $19,490 across 44 hospitalsVA$19,490Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $23,331 across 34 hospitalsAZ$23,331New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $24,624 across 15 hospitalsKS$24,624Arkansas: median $11,770 across 15 hospitalsAR$11,770Tennessee: median $11,562 across 40 hospitalsTN$11,562North Carolina: median $26,343 across 39 hospitalsNC$26,343South Carolina: median $38,314 across 36 hospitalsSC$38,314Oklahoma: median $14,576 across 28 hospitalsOK$14,576Louisiana: median $22,806 across 27 hospitalsLA$22,806Mississippi: median $14,311 across 20 hospitalsMS$14,311Alabama: median $28,559 across 21 hospitalsAL$28,559Georgia: median $17,992 across 58 hospitalsGA$17,992Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $34,814 across 165 hospitalsTX$34,814Florida: median $45,921 across 117 hospitalsFL$45,921
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $29,031. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT18$70,284+142%$17,925 – $70,284
Idaho ID10$62,005+114%$29,489 – $62,005
Florida FL117$45,921+58%$29,766 – $88,192
South Carolina SC36$38,314+32%$21,315 – $40,506
Colorado CO34$36,528+26%$13,682 – $60,168
Ohio OH75$36,001+24%$17,541 – $48,623
Massachusetts MA22$35,236+21%$25,937 – $44,954
Texas TX165$34,814+20%$16,772 – $70,567
California CA138$34,625+19%$17,004 – $56,680
Iowa IA21$34,433+19%$9,173 – $38,992
Oregon OR29$33,101+14%$1,791 – $55,879
New York NY58$31,025+7%$18,069 – $96,634
Pennsylvania PA68$30,975+7%$23,694 – $66,865
Nevada NV11$30,603+5%$18,265 – $110,883
Alabama AL21$28,559−2%$18,000 – $63,274
Minnesota MN33$28,063−3%$23,508 – $34,688
Indiana IN42$27,778−4%$15,768 – $41,548
Illinois IL61$27,733−4%$15,455 – $55,041
New Jersey NJ35$27,177−6%$9,109 – $32,735
Kentucky KY24$26,675−8%$12,096 – $102,688
North Carolina NC39$26,343−9%$19,206 – $38,062
Missouri MO35$24,991−14%$14,079 – $38,716
Kansas KS15$24,624−15%$13,815 – $45,871
Arizona AZ34$23,331−20%$11,020 – $58,746
Washington WA38$22,992−21%$18,789 – $40,684
Louisiana LA27$22,806−21%$12,000 – $43,283
Connecticut CT12$21,989−24%$16,601 – $43,847
Michigan MI57$21,189−27%$6,506 – $35,941
Virginia VA44$19,490−33%$16,209 – $41,924
Georgia GA58$17,992−38%$12,465 – $39,071
Wisconsin WI47$15,437−47%$6,506 – $29,999
Oklahoma OK28$14,576−50%$6,191 – $24,561
Mississippi MS20$14,311−51%$9,414 – $18,176
Arkansas AR15$11,770−59%$7,969 – $20,000
Tennessee TN40$11,562−60%$4,033 – $27,000
Nebraska NE11$9,173−68%$9,173 – $27,046
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not 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 $29,031.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,453$28,891$14,792 – $52,971
Children’s43$36,567$19,271 – $54,086
Critical access98$25,925$6,506 – $38,947
Ownership
For-profit240$45,871$19,066 – $98,337
Government175$26,223$13,815 – $39,828
Non-profit1,179$27,833$14,139 – $47,104
System affiliation
Part of a system1,442$29,031$14,691 – $52,300
Independent160$27,710$14,391 – $47,608

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$52,415
Median cash price$29,031
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

1,185 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $28,559 and the average of the middle 60% is $29,056; most fall between $14,576 and $46,556.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,185 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
$10,420$16,666$28,559$42,000$62,005

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10,420 vs $62,005).

Of the 1,276 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,185 gave a usable cash price; 44 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,602 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 1,726 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,602
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded52
Hospitals that filed this code1,726

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 Conversion of cardiac rhythm family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Compre Ep Eval Abltj 3d Mapg Tx Vt.

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, “Heart rhythm study with ablation for ventricular tachycardia (CPT 93654) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93654-heart-rhythm-study-with-ablation-for-ventricular-tachycardia