# Cardiac stress test in Columbus, GA

Billing code `93017`. Prices for this code at 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Columbus, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/columbus/cardiac-stress-test

HC CARDIAC STRESS TST,TRACING ONLY

**Read this before comparing:** This price is for the tracing only -- the technical recording of the test (CPT 93017), without the clinician's supervision or their reading of the result, which are billed separately. It is a component of a stress test, not the whole test, which is why it can look cheaper than prices published under the complete-test code. See [Exercise stress test](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/exercise-stress-test) (code 93015).

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 1 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $196 |
| Typical | $491 |
| Highest reported | $1,899 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS (~0 mi) | 3/5 | $196 | $196 | not mentioned | not published | $45 | $473 | 8 |
| Medical Center Barbour | EUFAULA, AL (32.3 mi) | not rated | $299 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $398 | $184 | $676 | 15 |
| The East Alabama Healthcare Authority | OPELIKA, AL (28.9 mi) | 3/5 | see split | $507 | $32 | $338 | $32 | $701 | 170 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 5/5 | $1,885 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $838 | $325 | $2,374 | 16 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 2/5 | $1,899 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $838 | $404 | $2,374 | 17 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 3 of the 4 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 1 it is higher.

2 of these 5 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Medical Center Barbour, The East Alabama Healthcare Authority.

## Others in heart & vascular

- [EKG (electrocardiogram), tracing only](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/ekg-electrocardiogram-tracing-only) -- 112 hospitals, typically $105
- [Vein ultrasound, one arm or leg](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/vein-ultrasound-one-arm-or-leg) -- 112 hospitals, typically $251
- [Neck artery ultrasound (carotid), both sides](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neck-artery-ultrasound-carotid-both-sides) -- 111 hospitals, typically $401
- [Vein ultrasound, both arms or both legs](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/vein-ultrasound-both-arms-or-both-legs) -- 111 hospitals, typically $401
- [Echocardiogram with Doppler](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/echocardiogram-with-doppler) -- 109 hospitals, typically $875
- [Abdominal, pelvic or scrotal artery ultrasound](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/abdominal-pelvic-or-scrotal-artery-ultrasound) -- 105 hospitals, typically $434
- [Artery ultrasound, arms and legs](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/artery-ultrasound-arms-and-legs) -- 100 hospitals, typically $302
- [Follow-up heart ultrasound (echocardiogram)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/follow-up-heart-ultrasound-echocardiogram) -- 98 hospitals, typically $350

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-04-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.