How much does an EKG cost?
There is no national price for an EKG that this site can date and cite: Medicare's national outpatient price lookup does not cover it, and no free national price for it with a date of its own could be found. So the prices below are what named hospitals publish, including the price each will accept from a patient paying cash. At a hospital, an EKG is usually billed as two codes: the tracing, CPT 93005, and the doctor reading it, CPT 93010. For the tracing, Boston Medical Center publishes a gross charge of $218.00 and a cash price of $98.10 in its file dated 13 March 2026. Franklin Memorial Hospital publishes $226.50 for the facility, the same for a cash payer as for the list price, in its file dated 9 September 2025. The University of Chicago Medical Center publishes $551.00, also the same for cash, in its file dated 1 April 2026. The reading is not in any of those figures. Franklin Memorial Hospital publishes what named health plans pay for it, and its file gives those rates a minimum of $7.98 and a maximum of $17.68.
$218.00 list, $98.10 cash
CPT 93005, the EKG tracing, at one hospital on 13 March 2026
$226.50
the same code at a second hospital, facility charge, list and cash alike
$551.00
the same code at a third hospital, list and cash alike, on 1 April 2026
Cost breakdown
Each table below comes from one source, named underneath it, with the date that source last revised the figures. Everything is a United States figure in USD.
EKG at Boston Medical Center, from its file last updated 13 March 2026
| CPT | Description, as the file prints it | Gross charge | Cash price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 93005 | HC Ecg Routine Ecg W/Least 12 Lds Trcg Only W/O I&R | $218.00 | $98.10 |
EKG at Franklin Memorial Hospital, from its file last updated 9 September 2025
| CPT and billing class | Description, as the file prints it | Gross charge | Cash price | Plan rates, the file's minimum to maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93005, facility | HC ECG TRACING | $226.50 | $226.50 | $55.90 to $257.86 outpatient |
| 93005, professional | HC ECG TRACING | $65.00 | $65.00 | $5.85 to $32.50 |
| 93000, facility | ELECTROCARDIOGRAM COMPLETE | not published | not published | $55.90 |
| 93010, professional | ELECTROCARDIOGRAM REPORT | not published | not published | $7.98 to $17.68 |
EKG at The University of Chicago Medical Center, from its file last updated 1 April 2026
| CPT | Description, as the file prints it | Gross charge | Cash price | Plan rates, the file's minimum to maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93005 | Hc Electrocardiogram, Routine Ecg W/ At Least 12 Leads; Tracing Only, W/O Interpretation And Report | $551.00 | $551.00 | $63.22 to $91.66, four plan entries |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram report | not published | not published | $105.08, one plan entry |
Why so many EKG results are about one city
| What you will find | What it is |
|---|---|
| An EKG price for one named city | A marketplace or directory quoting prices it has collected in that city. Four of the first six organic results for this search are pages like that |
| An in-office EKG price | An EKG done in a doctor's office is usually billed as one complete code, 93000, with no separate hospital facility charge. It is a different purchase from a hospital EKG |
| The figures on this page | Three named hospitals quoting their own federal filings, each with the code, the billing class where the file states one, and the date the hospital attested to |
A bar for each row of the table above, 4 of them, drawn to the same scale so the spread is visible at a glance. The figure beside each bar is the one the table prints.
What changes the price
- Whether the tracing and the reading are billed apart
- At a hospital they usually are. Franklin Memorial Hospital publishes the tracing, CPT 93005, at $226.50 for the facility, and publishes the reading, CPT 93010, only as plan rates. A single figure for "an EKG" at a hospital is usually the tracing alone.
- Which hospital
- The same tracing code is $218.00 at Boston Medical Center, $226.50 at Franklin Memorial Hospital and $551.00 at The University of Chicago Medical Center, each as the list price in its own dated file.
- Whether anyone is paying on your behalf
- Boston Medical Center publishes a cash price of $98.10 against its list price of $218.00. Franklin Memorial Hospital and The University of Chicago Medical Center publish the same figure for cash as for list, so paying cash buys no discount on the published price at those two.
- Whether you have insurance
- The plan rates are far below the list prices. The University of Chicago Medical Center publishes $551.00 as its list price for the tracing, and its file gives the rates it has agreed with plans for the same code a minimum of $63.22 and a maximum of $91.66.
How to pay less
- Ask for the cash price by name
- Boston Medical Center publishes $98.10 cash for the tracing against $218.00 list. The other two hospitals here publish no discount, so the question is worth asking and the answer is worth checking against the file.
- Ask whether the reading is billed separately
- At a hospital it usually is, under CPT 93010. A quote for the EKG may be a quote for the tracing only.
- Ask whether it can be done in a doctor's office
- An office EKG is usually one complete code with no hospital facility charge. No office is required to publish its price, so ask for it in writing before the test.
Questions
How much is an EKG without insurance?
Ask the hospital or clinic for its cash price before you book. Hospitals must publish a discounted cash price where they offer one, and the files quoted on this page show those prices beside the list price. With insurance, what you pay depends on your plan's negotiated rate, your deductible and your coinsurance, so ask your insurer for an estimate.
How much does an EKG cost?
At a hospital, the tracing, CPT 93005, is published at $218.00 by Boston Medical Center, $226.50 by Franklin Memorial Hospital and $551.00 by The University of Chicago Medical Center, each in its own dated and attested file. The doctor reading it is billed separately.
How much is an EKG without insurance?
That is the discounted cash price where a hospital publishes a lower one. Boston Medical Center does, at $98.10 for the tracing. Franklin Memorial Hospital and The University of Chicago Medical Center publish the same figure for cash as for list, $226.50 and $551.00.
How much is an EKG with insurance?
Your share of whatever your plan has agreed with the hospital. The University of Chicago Medical Center publishes the plan rates for the tracing with a minimum of $63.22 and a maximum of $91.66, against a list price of $551.00. Franklin Memorial Hospital publishes plan rates for the facility tracing with a minimum of $55.90 and a maximum of $257.86.
Is the doctor's reading included?
Not at a hospital, usually. The reading is CPT 93010. Franklin Memorial Hospital publishes it only as plan rates, from a minimum of $7.98 to a maximum of $17.68, and Boston Medical Center carries no line for it at all.
Is an EKG the same as an ECG?
Yes. EKG and ECG are two abbreviations for the same test, an electrocardiogram. The hospital files on this page use both.
Why does a hospital have to publish this?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires every hospital operating in the United States to publish a comprehensive machine-readable file of all items and services and a consumer-friendly display of shoppable services, states that it audits a sample of hospitals and investigates complaints, and states that hospitals may face civil monetary penalties for noncompliance.
Where these figures come from
Every figure here is published by the hospital named beside it, in US dollars, in the United States, in its own machine-readable standard charges file under 45 CFR 180.50, and each file carries the attestation that the information encoded is true, accurate and complete as of the date in the file. The dates are the ones the files give themselves: 13 March 2026 for Boston Medical Center, attested by Christopher Abate, 9 September 2025 for Franklin Memorial Hospital, attested by Kenneth Olsen, and 1 April 2026 for The University of Chicago Medical Center, attested by Chris Allen. All three files were downloaded again before this page was written, and each was byte-identical to the copy read on 25 September 2026. BEFORE ANY CODE WAS QUOTED, THE DISTINCT PUBLISHED PRICES FOR IT WERE COUNTED PER CODE AND PER BILLING CLASS, and every code quoted here carries one. Where a file publishes no gross or cash figure, the page says "not published" rather than leaving a blank that could be read as zero. Plan rates are what a plan pays the hospital, not what a patient owes, and their minimum and maximum are the fields each file prints. Boston Medical Center publishes no billing_class column, so its row is labelled unlabelled. Nothing here is averaged, turned into a ratio or restated as a typical cost, and three hospitals are three hospitals rather than a national picture.