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Complete echocardiogram with contrast and Doppler

HCPCS C8929the billing code this page is about

A full ultrasound exam of the heart using a contrast agent, including Doppler measurements of blood flow and color flow mapping.

Hospitals typically charge $1,715 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 243 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,722. Most fall between $997 and $2,772 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
243
States
36
Filings dated
Jun 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 243 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
$773$1,103$1,715$2,464$4,363

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($773 vs $4,363).

How the prices are spread

$595 – $730: 7 hospitals$595$730 – $896: 18 hospitals$896 – $1,099: 23 hospitals$896$1,099 – $1,348: 27 hospitals$1,348 – $1,654: 30 hospitals$1,348$1,654 – $2,029: 42 hospitals$2,029 – $2,489: 25 hospitals$2,029$2,489 – $3,053: 14 hospitals$3,053 – $3,746: 13 hospitals$3,053$3,746 – $4,595: 22 hospitals$3,746median $1,715price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (221 of 243 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$595$7307
$730$89618
$896$1,09923
$1,099$1,34827
$1,348$1,65430
$1,654$2,02942
$2,029$2,48925
$2,489$3,05314
$3,053$3,74613
$3,746$4,59522

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$1,715
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $1,715.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: median $1,755 across 12 hospitalsMI$1,755New York: median $4,595 across 18 hospitalsNY$4,595Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,157 across 10 hospitalsOR$2,157Nevada: 1 hospital 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: median $1,944 across 10 hospitalsIA$1,944Indiana: median $1,332 across 20 hospitalsIN$1,332Ohio: median $2,772 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,772Pennsylvania: median $3,259 across 15 hospitalsPA$3,259New Jersey: median $1,019 across 10 hospitalsNJ$1,019Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: median $4,393 across 10 hospitalsMO$4,393Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $1,280 across 14 hospitalsTN$1,280North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $1,957 across 18 hospitalsFL$1,957
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,715. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY18$4,595+168%$1,955 – $4,595
Missouri MO10$4,393+156%$743 – $5,881
Pennsylvania PA15$3,259+90%$1,496 – $3,936
Ohio OH12$2,772+62%$1,939 – $2,772
Oregon OR10$2,157+26%$1,867 – $2,241
Florida FL18$1,957+14%$918 – $1,957
Iowa IA10$1,944+13%$1,652 – $2,125
Michigan MI12$1,755+2%$1,418 – $1,755
Indiana IN20$1,332−22%$986 – $1,777
Tennessee TN14$1,280−25%$778 – $1,290
New Jersey NJ10$1,019−41%$863 – $1,054
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $1,715.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care206$1,739$937 – $3,131
Critical access35$1,592$1,172 – $1,944
Ownership
For-profit38$1,280$642 – $1,781
Government24$1,280$918 – $1,929
Non-profit179$1,939$1,103 – $3,375
System affiliation
Part of a system208$1,739$1,004 – $2,791
Independent35$1,496$825 – $2,498

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,319
Median cash price$1,715
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

194 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,777 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,754; most fall between $1,019 and $2,651.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 194 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
$766$1,211$1,777$2,241$3,529

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($766 vs $3,529).

Of the 208 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 194 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

243 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 262 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted243
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code262

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 Tte W/Doppler Complete - Tte Complete W/.

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, “Complete echocardiogram with contrast and Doppler (CPT C8929) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8929-complete-echocardiogram-with-contrast-and-doppler