Doctor visits and therapy CPT 93005 Outpatient

EKG tracing cost in Kalispell, MT

In Kalispell, MT, 2 hospitals list a cash price for electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG), tracing only, the hospital charge: from $87.26 to $179.08, with a median of $133.17. The lowest listed price is at Logan Health - Whitefish — $45.91 less than the median here. Across Montana, the median is $142.96 at 22 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 93005, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$87.26Logan Health - Whitefish
Median$133.17half pay less
Highest$179.08in this market
Difference2.1×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Kalispell, MT.

median
Lowest $87.26Highest $179.08

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Logan Health - Whitefish lowest Whitefish, MT · (406) 863-3550 EKG TECH LAB STATS $87.26 $134.25 — 35% Apr 1, 2026
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Logan Health Medical Center Kalispell, MT · (406) 752-5111 EKG TECH LAB STATS $179.08 $275.50 — 35% Apr 1, 2026
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Outpatient: lowest $87.26, median $133.17, highest $179.08 — a 2.1× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $133.17. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

What it is

This code is the EKG recording itself, without the doctor's interpretation. It is the code hospitals use for their part of an EKG, while the doctor bills the reading separately (93010). Clinics bill the whole test under 93000.

What the price covers

The price covers recording the tracing. The doctor's interpretation is billed separately.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 93005 ($190.40). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

Logan Health Medical Center Kalispell, MTEKG; TRACING $13.00 file