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Heart Ultrasound From The Food Pipe, Birth Defect

Kansas 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?

$427

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $427 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $398 from a physician practice, and about $550 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$398$275 to $468
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$550$550 to $575

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $550 · 10th to 90th $490 to $575Professionalmedian $398 · 10th to 90th $195 to $1,230
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $550professional $398

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
$275.42
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,801.89
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$288.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$147.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$138.04
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$575.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$426.58
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$194.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$275.42
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$489.78
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$281.84
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,230.27
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$549.54
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,096.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None (both parts)
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$501.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
26 · Professional part
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$131.83
Typical High
$169.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TC · Technical part
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$346.74
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
$95.50
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$57.54

Where Kansas 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.

Kansas· 5th of 51

$427

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.