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Cash prices San Francisco, CA Outpatient

Heart test cost in San Francisco, CA without insurance

In the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area, the median cash price for Echocardiogram is $3,824.80 across 26 hospitals. The lowest, $583.90, is at St. Rose Hospital (Hayward). The US median is $1,667.18.

Heart tests range from a quick ECG (93000) to an echocardiogram (93306), an exercise stress test (93015) and imaging stress tests such as a stress echo (93351) or a nuclear scan (78452). The price depends on which test is ordered and on what the code covers, since some codes include the doctor's interpretation and others do not. If you have chest pain, severe shortness of breath or fainting right now, call 911 instead of scheduling a test.

Collected Nov 11, 2026 One price per hospital: its lowest outpatient cash price for the code

Heart test prices in San Francisco, CA by type

Match the code on your order: 93015 is an exercise ECG stress test without imaging, 93351 adds echo images, and 78452 is only the imaging part of a nuclear stress test. 75571, the coronary calcium score, is a screening CT for people without symptoms; the state table uses the echocardiogram, 93306.

ProcedureHospitalsLowestMedianUS median
EKG Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) with interpretation · code 93000 10 $89.60 $89.60 $90.12
Echocardiogram Echocardiogram through the chest wall, complete, with Doppler · code 93306 26 $583.90 $3,824.80 $1,667.18
Stress echocardiogram Stress echocardiogram, complete, including the stress test and supervision · code 93351 25 $1,623.13 $3,337.60 $1,666.84
Nuclear stress test Nuclear stress test imaging (SPECT), rest and stress studies · code 78452 25 $1,502.91 $7,363.00 $3,277.78
Coronary calcium score CT CT of the heart without contrast dye to measure coronary calcium · code 75571 22 $96.18 $313.60 $163.38
EKG tracing Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), tracing only, the hospital charge · code 93005 26 $64.74 $467.71 $183.06
Stress test (hospital charge) Exercise stress test, tracing only, the hospital charge · code 93017 25 $703.08 $1,710.00 $805.86
Cardiac catheterization Cardiac catheterization with coronary angiogram · code 93458 23 $9,637.80 $19,488.00 $9,316.35
Coronary CT angiography CT angiography of the heart arteries with contrast dye (coronary CTA), including calcium score · code 75574 22 $980.77 $4,222.40 $1,383.62
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Outpatient cash prices in San Francisco, CA. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest cash price for the code; prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Pick a procedure to compare every hospital in the area.

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Paying cash: what to do

  • For a nuclear stress test, ask for the total including the tracer, the stress portion and the interpretation, since the imaging code is only one piece.
  • Ask whether the cardiologist's interpretation is included; in hospitals an ECG is often split into the tracing (93005) and the reading (93010).
  • Insurance often does not cover a coronary calcium score, so many imaging centers set a flat self-pay price; compare several.