Echocardiogram with and without contrast Cost in Salt Lake City, UT

Prices at 3 hospitals in Salt Lake City, UT, from their machine-readable files. Here the median cash price is $1,016 — 66% above the US median ($611), roughly 10.0× the Medicare rate.

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Hospital	Location	Cash	Insurer	CMS rating	ER wait	Readmit
Holy Cross Hospital-Salt Lake	Salt Lake City, UT	$1,016	$1,275	★ 3/5	145 min	14.5%
VA Salt Lake City Healthcare-George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center	Salt Lake City, UT	$1,016	$1,275	★ 4/5	—	14.0%
St Mark's Hospital	Salt Lake City, UT	$1,960	$542	★ 4/5	108 min	14.0%

CMS rating = overall hospital star rating (1–5); ER wait = median minutes in the emergency department; Readmit = 30-day readmission rate (lower is better) — all from Medicare’s Care Compare; “—” = not reported. Data last updated July 2026. Prices from hospitals’ machine-readable files (45 CFR §180); Medicare benchmark from CMS PFS/CLFS/IPPS. Prices below 15% of the median are excluded as likely partial or mis-coded charges. Estimates — confirm with the hospital. Report an incorrect price.

Price comparison (median)

Chargemaster (list price)

$2,539

Cash / self-pay

$1,016

Insurer-negotiated

$1,275

Medicare pays

$101

$1,016$1,771

Median cash $1,016 · Medicare $101 · bar = typical cash range (10th–90th percentile)

Is this a fair price?

1× Medicarefair ≈2×5×+

Typical cash price here is $1,016 — about 10.0× the Medicare rate ($101). High vs Medicare. A fair cash price is usually within ~2× Medicare ($202).

💡 Asking for the cash price instead of the $2,539 list price could save about $1,523 (60%).

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Doctors who perform this in Salt Lake City

Clinicians who reported the most Medicare volume for this service locally. This reflects Original Medicare activity only and is a volume signal, not a quality ranking.

Clinician	Specialty	Location	Medicare services
Anees Daud	Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	67
Jerry Walker, MD	Nuclear Medicine	Salt Lake City, UT	53
Poorna Nalabothu, MD	Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	48
Richard Meredith, MD	Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	44
Samuel Hayes, M.D.	Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	37
John Ryan, MBBCHBAO	Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	35
Libo Wang, M.D.	Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	32
Lee Linstroth, MD	Interventional Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	28
Vamsee Yaganti, MD	Interventional Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	27
Benjamin Peterson, M.D.	Interventional Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	26
Eric Lindley, M.D.	Cardiology	Salt Lake City, UT	25
Neil Krulewitz, D.O.	Emergency Medicine	Salt Lake City, UT	24

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