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Echocardiogram through the throat with contrast

HCPCS C8925the billing code this page is about

An ultrasound of the heart taken with a probe passed down the esophagus, using a contrast agent, and including image capture, interpretation and a written report.

Hospitals typically charge $1,579 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 153 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,563. Most fall between $894 and $2,261 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
153
States
34
Filings dated
Dec 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 153 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
$740$950$1,579$2,123$2,653

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($740 vs $2,653).

How the prices are spread

$513 – $608: 8 hospitals$513$608 – $722: 2 hospitals$722 – $856: 10 hospitals$722$856 – $1,016: 14 hospitals$1,016 – $1,205: 13 hospitals$1,016$1,205 – $1,430: 19 hospitals$1,430 – $1,697: 19 hospitals$1,430$1,697 – $2,013: 18 hospitals$2,013 – $2,389: 19 hospitals$2,013$2,389 – $2,834: 19 hospitals$2,389median $1,579price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (141 of 153 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$513$6088
$608$7222
$722$85610
$856$1,01614
$1,016$1,20513
$1,205$1,43019
$1,430$1,69719
$1,697$2,01318
$2,013$2,38919
$2,389$2,83419

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$1,579
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.97×

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 $1,579.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,366 across 18 hospitalsIN$1,366Ohio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $2,261 across 17 hospitalsFL$2,261
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,579. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL17$2,261+43%$513 – $2,261
Indiana IN18$1,366−14%$1,030 – $2,834
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,579.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care138$1,581$877 – $2,261
Critical access13fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit25$1,394$740 – $2,261
Government17fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit109$1,628$950 – $2,261
System affiliation
Part of a system140$1,581$894 – $2,261
Independent13fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,122
Median cash price$1,579
Cash as a share of list, median hospital55%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 45%. 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

123 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,627 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,590; most fall between $877 and $2,261.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 123 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
$693$1,019$1,627$2,261$2,653

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($693 vs $2,653).

Of the 126 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 123 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 0 a list price only.

How complete is this

153 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 162 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted153
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code162

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Echo Transesophageal - Transesophageal Echo (Tee).

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, “Echocardiogram through the throat with contrast (CPT C8925) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8925-echocardiogram-through-the-throat-with-contrast