CMS Price Transparency Data

Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound)

Facility: Sky Ridge Medical Center

Billing Code: 93306 (CPT)

The BaseRate · fair price medium confidence

A fair price for this

$783

about 1.4× the $558 Medicare rate · typically $238–$939

modeled estimate · not a bill or quote

What this hospital charges insurers

$885

About the fair price

about $102 over the fair price · 1.6× Medicare

Medicare pays $558 Fair price $783 This hospital $885 Cash price $9,716 Hospital's list price $9,716

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How this hospital compares to other CO hospitals

Highest price of the 9 CO hospitals we have prices for — worth calling around.

Cheapest $110 Priciest $885

Black dot = this hospital, among the 9 CO hospitals with a price for this procedure. Full list below.

⚠ The cash price looks unusually high next to the insurance price — it may be the full list price, not a real cash discount. Call to confirm the self-pay rate.

A fair price for a Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) is about $783 (about 1.4× the $558 Medicare rate). Sky Ridge Medical Center charges insurers about $885, or about $9,716 in cash — about the fair price. Located in Lone Tree, CO.

What each insurance company pays

Which insurers have negotiated a price with this hospital for this procedure — and which haven’t.

5 of 6 major insurers have a published price at this hospital

✓ UnitedHealthcare✓ Blue Cross Blue Shield✓ Aetna✓ Cigna✓ Kaiser Permanente Humana

Crossed out = this hospital hasn’t published a negotiated price for that insurer for this procedure. It doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t accepted — ask your insurer.

Insurance company	Price range	vs. Medicare
UnitedHealthcaremajor	$2,011 - $4,372	360%
Blue Cross Blue Shieldmajor	$7,190	1288%
Aetnamajor	$5,130	919%
Cignamajor	$2,273 - $6,218	407%
Kaiser Permanentemajor	$1,943 - $3,449	348%
Bright Health	$2,915	522%
HealthPartners	$6,801	1218%
+ 4 smaller / regional plans	$1,477 - $7,773

Excludes 3 rental-network / third-party entries (e.g. Multiplan, PHCS) — these are pricing networks, not insurers.

Self-Pay How to get the cash price

Tell the billing desk you want to be billed as self-pay — not through insurance — before your visit.
Ask for the cash / prompt-pay discount in writing, with the exact price (about 9,716), before you agree to anything.
Get it in writing that they won’t also bill your insurance, so the cash price is what you owe.
Check the CPT code on your bill matches exactly: 93306.

Insurance Before you use insurance

Call your insurance company to confirm Sky Ridge Medical Center is in-network.
Ask your insurer whether prior approval is required for CPT code 93306.
Confirm the doctor or provider is in-network too — not just the hospital building.
Check your Explanation of Benefits against the hospital’s final itemized bill.

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Other Procedures at Sky Ridge Medical Center

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Insurance negotiated median for the same procedure, sorted lowest first.