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Heart Ultrasound From The Food Pipe, Birth Defect

Illinois rates for HCPCS 93317

The image-taking and interpretation part of an ultrasound of the heart performed with a probe passed down the food pipe, in a person born with a heart defect. Viewing the heart from directly behind it gives the detail needed to map unusual anatomy and to check the result of a repair. This covers acquiring and reporting the images when another clinician placed the probe.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Heart Ultrasound From The Food Pipe, Birth Defect cost?

$275

Typical negotiated rate. In Illinois, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $275 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $275 from a physician practice, and about $741 from a hospital or other facility.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$275$204 to $339
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$741$513 to $1,318

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $741 · 10th to 90th $380 to $2,138Professionalmedian $275 · 10th to 90th $162 to $501
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $741professional $275

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$208.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$107.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$104.71
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$2,137.96
BCBS Illinois
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$144.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$204.17
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$741.31
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$354.81
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$446.68
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$426.58
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$616.60
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$186.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$416.87
2 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$102.33
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$40.74

Where Illinois sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in Alaska than in New York. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Illinois· 22nd of 51

$275

AK $537NY $174

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.