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Complete stress echocardiogram with contrast and monitoring

HCPCS C8930the billing code this page is about

Heart ultrasound with a contrast agent performed at rest and during exercise or drug-induced stress, with continuous heart tracing and supervision by a physician throughout.

Hospitals typically charge $1,736 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 174 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,805. Most fall between $1,054 and $2,657 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
174
States
31
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 174 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
$827$1,113$1,736$2,604$3,346

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($827 vs $3,346).

How the prices are spread

$656 – $799: 9 hospitals$656$799 – $975: 16 hospitals$975 – $1,188: 13 hospitals$975$1,188 – $1,449: 28 hospitals$1,449 – $1,767: 17 hospitals$1,449$1,767 – $2,154: 13 hospitals$2,154 – $2,626: 28 hospitals$2,154$2,626 – $3,202: 21 hospitals$3,202 – $3,904: 6 hospitals$3,202$3,904 – $4,760: 12 hospitals$3,904median $1,736price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (163 of 174 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$656$7999
$799$97516
$975$1,18813
$1,188$1,44928
$1,449$1,76717
$1,767$2,15413
$2,154$2,62628
$2,626$3,20221
$3,202$3,9046
$3,904$4,76012

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$801
Median cash price$1,736
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $1,736.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 5 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: 2 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $1,468 across 17 hospitalsIN$1,468Ohio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $3,259 across 13 hospitalsPA$3,259New Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 6 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $1,393 across 34 hospitalsTX$1,393Florida: median $2,657 across 14 hospitalsFL$2,657
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,736. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$3,259+88%$1,274 – $3,936
Florida FL14$2,657+53%$656 – $2,657
Indiana IN17$1,468−15%$1,107 – $1,817
Texas TX34$1,393−20%$1,267 – $2,198
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,736.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care158$1,736$961 – $2,657
Critical access15fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit22$2,030$916 – $2,657
Government12fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit139$1,736$1,054 – $2,657
System affiliation
Part of a system157$1,736$1,054 – $2,657
Independent17fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,664
Median cash price$1,736
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

140 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,958 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,930; most fall between $1,256 and $2,657.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 140 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
$772$1,267$1,958$2,604$2,775

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($772 vs $2,775).

Of the 146 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 140 gave a usable cash price; 4 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

174 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 183 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted174
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code183

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 23, 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 Tte w or w/o contr cont ecg.

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 stress echocardiogram with contrast and monitoring (CPT C8930) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c8930-complete-stress-echocardiogram-with-contrast-and-monitoring