Cash prices Colorado Outpatient

Heart test cost in Colorado without insurance

In Colorado, the median cash price for Echocardiogram is $2,140.88 across 45 hospitals, from $547.50 to $14,543.45. The lowest is at Vail Health Hospital (Vail). The US median is $1,667.18.

Colorado's Hospital Discounted Care law (HB21-1198): for qualifying patients with household income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level, hospitals and the clinicians who work in them may charge no more than the greater of the Medicare rate or the Medicaid base rate, and monthly payments are capped. That can be less than the cash prices below; ask the hospital to screen you for discounted care. Other states' laws.

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 10, 2026 One price per hospital: its lowest outpatient cash price for the code

Heart test prices in Colorado 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.

ProcedureHospitalsRangeMedianUS median
EKG Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) with interpretation · code 93000 9 $38.79–$399.50 $162.11 $90.12
Echocardiogram Echocardiogram through the chest wall, complete, with Doppler · code 93306 45 $547.50–$14,543.45 $2,140.88 $1,667.18
Stress echocardiogram Stress echocardiogram, complete, including the stress test and supervision · code 93351 25 $358.96–$17,668.75 $4,257.61 $1,666.84
Nuclear stress test Nuclear stress test imaging (SPECT), rest and stress studies · code 78452 36 $923.44–$30,914.62 $4,581.63 $3,277.78
Treadmill stress test Treadmill or drug stress test with ECG, supervision and report · code 93015 9 $178.50–$1,118.60 $946.32 $374.24
Coronary calcium score CT CT of the heart without contrast dye to measure coronary calcium · code 75571 36 $51.80–$3,716.90 $351.50 $163.38
EKG tracing Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), tracing only, the hospital charge · code 93005 50 $40.32–$2,810.45 $244.75 $183.06
Stress test (hospital charge) Exercise stress test, tracing only, the hospital charge · code 93017 42 $102.00–$13,623.87 $1,098.20 $805.86
Holter monitor Holter monitor, heart rhythm recording up to 48 hours, with report · code 93224 3 $156.00–$234.75 $185.35 $260.90
Cardiac catheterization Cardiac catheterization with coronary angiogram · code 93458 12 $2,607.00–$28,067.50 $19,556.28 $9,316.35
Coronary CT angiography CT angiography of the heart arteries with contrast dye (coronary CTA), including calcium score · code 75574 32 $618.45–$24,140.60 $1,928.05 $1,383.62
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Outpatient cash prices in Colorado. 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 state.

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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.