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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on lung and bronchus

Complex heart and lung exercise test

CPT 94621the billing code this page is about

A detailed exercise test that measures breathing, exhaled gases, oxygen use, and heart tracings during exertion.

Hospitals typically charge $748 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,551 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $803. Most fall between $345 and $1,520 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,551
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 1,551 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
$233$385$748$1,388$2,115

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($233 vs $2,115).

How the prices are spread

$138 – $187: 39 hospitals$138$187 – $254: 71 hospitals$254 – $346: 125 hospitals$254$346 – $469: 196 hospitals$469 – $637: 168 hospitals$469$637 – $865: 197 hospitals$865 – $1,175: 195 hospitals$865$1,175 – $1,596: 195 hospitals$1,596 – $2,167: 138 hospitals$1,596$2,167 – $2,943: 73 hospitals$2,167median $748price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,397 of 1,551 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$138$18739
$187$25471
$254$346125
$346$469196
$469$637168
$637$865197
$865$1,175195
$1,175$1,596195
$1,596$2,167138
$2,167$2,94373

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$381
Median cash price$748
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.96×

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 $748.

Alaska: 3 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $648 across 40 hospitalsWA$648Idaho: median $709 across 13 hospitalsID$709Montana: 7 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 $442 across 36 hospitalsMN$442Illinois: median $851 across 60 hospitalsIL$851Wisconsin: median $826 across 52 hospitalsWI$826Michigan: median $579 across 57 hospitalsMI$579New York: median $443 across 58 hospitalsNY$443Massachusetts: median $832 across 29 hospitalsMA$832Oregon: median $682 across 27 hospitalsOR$682Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $554 across 33 hospitalsIA$554Indiana: median $1,250 across 45 hospitalsIN$1,250Ohio: median $931 across 83 hospitalsOH$931Pennsylvania: median $650 across 77 hospitalsPA$650New Jersey: median $465 across 40 hospitalsNJ$465Connecticut: median $653 across 13 hospitalsCT$653Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,798 across 93 hospitalsCA$1,798Utah: median $548 across 17 hospitalsUT$548Colorado: median $1,141 across 36 hospitalsCO$1,141Nebraska: median $818 across 18 hospitalsNE$818Missouri: median $905 across 28 hospitalsMO$905Kentucky: median $1,014 across 31 hospitalsKY$1,014West Virginia: median $447 across 16 hospitalsWV$447Virginia: median $942 across 39 hospitalsVA$942Maryland: median $1,401 across 21 hospitalsMD$1,401Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $471 across 36 hospitalsAZ$471New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $392 across 24 hospitalsKS$392Arkansas: median $260 across 15 hospitalsAR$260Tennessee: median $248 across 25 hospitalsTN$248North Carolina: median $942 across 42 hospitalsNC$942South Carolina: median $993 across 29 hospitalsSC$993Oklahoma: median $340 across 31 hospitalsOK$340Louisiana: median $343 across 22 hospitalsLA$343Mississippi: median $393 across 18 hospitalsMS$393Alabama: median $305 across 13 hospitalsAL$305Georgia: median $491 across 72 hospitalsGA$491Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,342 across 101 hospitalsTX$1,342Florida: median $998 across 82 hospitalsFL$998
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $748. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA93$1,798+141%$814 – $2,118
Maryland MD21$1,401+87%$796 – $1,844
Texas TX101$1,342+80%$963 – $1,520
Indiana IN45$1,250+67%$189 – $1,511
Colorado CO36$1,141+53%$650 – $2,077
Kentucky KY31$1,014+36%$389 – $1,250
Florida FL82$998+34%$401 – $2,463
South Carolina SC29$993+33%$595 – $1,000
North Carolina NC42$942+26%$391 – $1,388
Virginia VA39$942+26%$296 – $1,534
Ohio OH83$931+25%$495 – $1,924
Missouri MO28$905+21%$432 – $1,568
Illinois IL60$851+14%$272 – $2,232
Massachusetts MA29$832+11%$646 – $2,642
Wisconsin WI52$826+11%$307 – $1,190
Nebraska NE18$818+9%$466 – $1,112
Idaho ID13$709−5%$682 – $765
Oregon OR27$682−9%$197 – $1,419
Connecticut CT13$653−13%$444 – $1,199
Pennsylvania PA77$650−13%$381 – $2,064
Washington WA40$648−13%$369 – $1,055
Michigan MI57$579−23%$371 – $1,010
Iowa IA33$554−26%$158 – $1,049
Utah UT17$548−27%$91 – $962
Georgia GA72$491−34%$378 – $1,476
Arizona AZ36$471−37%$191 – $1,695
New Jersey NJ40$465−38%$345 – $2,549
West Virginia WV16$447−40%$308 – $765
New York NY58$443−41%$294 – $1,412
Minnesota MN36$442−41%$415 – $1,049
Mississippi MS18$393−47%$166 – $580
Kansas KS24$392−48%$280 – $833
Louisiana LA22$343−54%$247 – $721
Oklahoma OK31$340−55%$247 – $649
Alabama AL13$305−59%$65 – $539
Arkansas AR15$260−65%$127 – $412
Tennessee TN25$248−67%$243 – $467
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not 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 $748.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,306$785$367 – $1,534
Children’s44$1,255$648 – $2,603
Critical access194$523$265 – $1,214
Ownership
For-profit177$837$367 – $2,571
Government215$566$281 – $1,145
Non-profit1,152$771$365 – $1,534
System affiliation
Part of a system1,364$799$351 – $1,551
Independent187$590$305 – $1,157

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,413
Median cash price$748
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

1,160 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $807 and the average of the middle 60% is $837; most fall between $351 and $1,524.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,160 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
$239$414$807$1,405$1,993

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($239 vs $1,993).

Of the 1,205 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,160 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,551 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,619 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,551
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,619

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 Other diagnostic procedures on lung and bronchus family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing|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, “Complex heart and lung exercise test (CPT 94621) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94621-complex-heart-and-lung-exercise-test