Home › Procedures › Heart & Cardiac Cardiac catheterization, stress tests, echocardiograms and related heart procedure prices. Prices below are medians across US hospitals from their machine-readable files.
Procedure Cash Chargemaster Medicare Hospitals EKG / ECG (tracing only) $184 $322 $7 2387 Electrocardiogram (EKG) $161 $296 $8 2386 Echocardiogram $974 $1,656 $138 2329 Cardioversion $1,184 $2,068 $155 2195 Echocardiogram with and without contrast $611 $1,085 $101 2182 Holter heart monitor $373 $675 $26 2132 Nuclear cardiac stress test $3,166 $5,633 $428 2102 Cardiac stress test $740 $1,322 $39 2100 Stress echocardiogram $1,444 $2,558 $209 1955 Pacemaker insertion $31,763 $84,191 $15,506 1929 Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) $1,570 $2,955 $239 1891 Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) with and without contrast $1,666 $3,087 $239 1879 Coronary artery bypass (CABG) $75,347 $216,229 $36,593 1783 Echocardiogram without contrast $924 $1,680 $138 1719 Cardiac catheterization $9,329 $18,546 $1,049 1643 Tilt table test $1,256 $2,566 $168 1565 Defibrillator (ICD) implant $29,687 $58,360 $798 1562 Stress echocardiogram (complete) $1,586 $2,921 $233 1546 Cardiac ablation $26,566 $48,982 $759 1471 Aortic valve replacement $14,594 $28,069 $1,603 1231 Carotid artery surgery $3,396 $5,181 $1,026 1032 Cardiac event monitor $470 $631 $170 748 Coronary angioplasty / stent (PCI) $23,324 $54,123 $426 471
Source: hospitals' machine-readable price files (45 CFR §180). Medicare from CMS fee schedules. Estimates — confirm with the hospital.
