Doctor visits and therapy CPT 93017 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Stress test (hospital charge) cost in Kalispell, MT — inpatient

In Kalispell, MT, 2 hospitals list a cash price for exercise stress test, tracing only, the hospital charge as an inpatient: from $286.00 to $619.45, with a median of $452.73. The lowest listed price is at Logan Health - Whitefish — $166.73 less than the median here. Across Montana, the median is $475.17 at 14 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 93017, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$286.00Logan Health - Whitefish

Median$452.73half of hospitals charge less

Highest$619.45in this market

Difference2.2×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 $286.00Highest $747.99

Hospitals, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	Insurers pay	Off list
Logan Health - Whitefish lowest Whitefish, MT · (406) 863-3550 ECHO TEE COMPLETE W/CONTRAST+13 more lines at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file	$286.00	$440.00	—	35%
Logan Health Medical Center Kalispell, MT · (406) 752-5111 TRANSTHORACIC ECHO W/ CONTRAST+13 more lines at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file	$619.45	$953.00	—	35%
Logan Health - Whitefish Whitefish, MT · (406) 863-3550 TREADMILL/PHARMOCOLOGIC STRESS File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file	$734.34	$1,129.75	—	35%
Logan Health Medical Center Kalispell, MT · (406) 752-5111 TREADMILL/PHARMOCOLOGIC STRESS File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file	$747.99	$1,150.75	—	35%

Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.

Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More

List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More

Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More

Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.

Inpatient: lowest $286.00, median $452.73, highest $619.45 — a 2.2× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $452.73 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

What it is

This code is the hospital's part of an exercise stress test, the treadmill test with a running EKG, without the doctor's supervision and report. Clinics bill the whole test under 93015.

What the price covers

The price covers the test and recording. The doctor's supervision and report are billed separately, and imaging such as a nuclear scan (78452) or stress echo (93351) is extra.

2 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 93017 ($832.50). 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.

Hospital	Cash price	File
Logan Health Medical Center Kalispell, MTCARDIOVASCULAR STRESS TEST	$50.05	file
Logan Health - Whitefish Whitefish, MTCARDIOVASCULAR STRESS TEST	$60.78	file

File Link to the hospital's own price file.