# Exercise stress test in GA

Billing code `93015`. Prices for this code at 12 hospitals in GA, 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/exercise-stress-test

Cardiovascular stress test using maximal or submaximal treadmill or bicycle exercise, continuous electrocardiographic monitoring, and/or pharmacological stress; with supervision, interpretation and re 

**Read this before comparing:** This code is the complete test: exercise, monitoring, supervision and the clinician's interpretation, billed as one. Many hospitals instead publish only the tracing component (CPT 93017), which looks cheaper because it covers less -- the two are not comparable prices. See [Cardiac stress test](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/cardiac-stress-test) (code 93017).

## 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 physician fee; 2 publish a facility charge; 3 publish both, mixed together; 6 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $67 |
| Typical | $181 |
| Dearest tenth | $789 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 12-fold difference for the same billing code -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $66 | $66 | not mentioned | not published | $66 | $99 | 13 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $66 | $74 | not published | $66 | $311 | 27 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $66 | $84 | not published | $66 | $311 | 30 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $126 | $71 | not published | $71 | $181 | 38 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | $79 | not mentioned | $79 | not published | $76 | $311 | 18 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $90 | $90 | not mentioned | not published | $90 | $90 | 1 |
| Washington County Regional Medical Center | SANDERSVILLE | not rated | $181 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $129 | $90 | $424 | 18 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $372 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $372 | $104 | $372 | 22 |
| Athur M Blank Hospital | ATLANTA | not rated | $754 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,100 | $470 | $1,100 | 28 |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite | ATLANTA | not rated | $754 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,100 | $460 | $1,100 | 28 |
| Effingham Health System | SPRINGFIELD | not rated | $793 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $1,841 | $758 | $2,691 | 78 |
| Candler County Hospital | METTER | not rated | $826 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $331 | $1,832 | 29 |

## 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 1 of the 5 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 4 it is higher.

## 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 2025-11-19 to 2026-05-14; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.