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24-hour blood pressure monitoring, recording only

CPT 93786the billing code this page is about

Covers only the hook-up and wearing of a portable blood pressure monitor for 24 hours or more to record readings; the analysis and written interpretation are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $210 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 879 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $232. Most fall between $100 and $397 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
879
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 879 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
$64$128$210$374$513

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $513).

How the prices are spread

$45 – $59: 20 hospitals$45$59 – $79: 55 hospitals$79 – $104: 64 hospitals$79$104 – $137: 61 hospitals$137 – $181: 133 hospitals$137$181 – $239: 109 hospitals$239 – $316: 93 hospitals$239$316 – $417: 144 hospitals$417 – $551: 87 hospitals$417$551 – $728: 29 hospitals$551median $210price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (795 of 879 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$45$5920
$59$7955
$79$10464
$104$13761
$137$181133
$181$239109
$239$31693
$316$417144
$417$55187
$551$72829

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$210
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.54×

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 $210.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $272 across 21 hospitalsWA$272Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $151 across 30 hospitalsMN$151Illinois: median $144 across 39 hospitalsIL$144Wisconsin: median $203 across 51 hospitalsWI$203Michigan: median $183 across 23 hospitalsMI$183New York: median $153 across 41 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $457 across 18 hospitalsMA$457Oregon: median $304 across 10 hospitalsOR$304Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $128 across 29 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $215 across 28 hospitalsIN$215Ohio: median $337 across 60 hospitalsOH$337Pennsylvania: median $163 across 40 hospitalsPA$163New Jersey: median $154 across 27 hospitalsNJ$154Connecticut: median $220 across 11 hospitalsCT$220Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $513 across 56 hospitalsCA$513Utah: median $242 across 11 hospitalsUT$242Colorado: median $294 across 31 hospitalsCO$294Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $178 across 12 hospitalsMO$178Kentucky: median $452 across 20 hospitalsKY$452West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $210 across 21 hospitalsVA$210Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $95 across 10 hospitalsKS$95Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $33 across 10 hospitalsTN$33North Carolina: median $188 across 21 hospitalsNC$188South Carolina: median $253 across 14 hospitalsSC$253Oklahoma: median $41 across 15 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $107 across 14 hospitalsLA$107Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $301 across 28 hospitalsGA$301Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $300 across 64 hospitalsTX$300Florida: median $229 across 32 hospitalsFL$229
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $210. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA56$513+144%$313 – $728
Massachusetts MA18$457+118%$229 – $515
Kentucky KY20$452+115%$128 – $452
Ohio OH60$337+61%$196 – $482
Oregon OR10$304+45%$71 – $408
Georgia GA28$301+43%$174 – $365
Texas TX64$300+43%$152 – $374
Colorado CO31$294+40%$158 – $462
Washington WA21$272+30%$153 – $355
South Carolina SC14$253+20%$178 – $532
Utah UT11$242+15%$242 – $242
Florida FL32$229+9%$143 – $602
Connecticut CT11$220+5%$191 – $375
Indiana IN28$215+2%$101 – $381
Virginia VA21$2100%$107 – $301
Wisconsin WI51$203−4%$64 – $397
North Carolina NC21$188−10%$89 – $380
Michigan MI23$183−13%$65 – $213
Missouri MO12$178−15%$149 – $319
Pennsylvania PA40$163−23%$120 – $278
New Jersey NJ27$154−27%$143 – $236
New York NY41$153−27%$113 – $324
Minnesota MN30$151−28%$93 – $203
Illinois IL39$144−32%$65 – $456
Iowa IA29$128−39%$82 – $271
Louisiana LA14$107−49%$71 – $190
Kansas KS10$95−55%$75 – $513
Oklahoma OK15$41−80%$41 – $74
Tennessee TN10$33−84%$32 – $166
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $210.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care685$216$113 – $413
Children’s38$205$107 – $427
Critical access153$165$71 – $350
Ownership
For-profit60$202$68 – $384
Government120$187$102 – $365
Non-profit696$214$102 – $413
System affiliation
Part of a system754$215$112 – $408
Independent125$179$88 – $324

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$418
Median cash price$210
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

639 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $229 and the average of the middle 60% is $250; most fall between $107 and $408.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 639 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
$64$131$229$380$532

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $532).

Of the 664 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 639 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

879 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 908 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted879
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code908

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 AMBL BP MNTR W/SW REC ONLY.

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, “24-hour blood pressure monitoring, recording only (CPT 93786) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93786-24-hour-blood-pressure-monitoring-recording-only