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Procedure price report · Diagnostic bronchoscopy and biopsy of bronchus

Lung airway scope exam with airway biopsy, one or more sites

CPT 31625the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed into the airways and tissue samples are taken from the airway wall at one or several locations; the single price covers all sites sampled.

Hospitals typically charge $1,975 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,448 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,996. Most fall between $784 and $3,847 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,448
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,448 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$438$955$1,975$3,313$5,229

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($438 vs $5,229).

How the prices are spread

$329 – $452: 80 hospitals$329$452 – $622: 54 hospitals$622 – $855: 127 hospitals$622$855 – $1,176: 118 hospitals$1,176 – $1,617: 151 hospitals$1,176$1,617 – $2,224: 249 hospitals$2,224 – $3,059: 203 hospitals$2,224$3,059 – $4,207: 146 hospitals$4,207 – $5,786: 131 hospitals$4,207$5,786 – $7,957: 46 hospitals$5,786median $1,975price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,305 of 1,448 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$329$45280
$452$62254
$622$855127
$855$1,176118
$1,176$1,617151
$1,617$2,224249
$2,224$3,059203
$3,059$4,207146
$4,207$5,786131
$5,786$7,95746

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,818
Median cash price$1,975
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.09×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,975.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $894 across 10 hospitalsNH$894Washington: median $1,741 across 40 hospitalsWA$1,741Idaho: median $3,023 across 13 hospitalsID$3,023Montana: median $635 across 11 hospitalsMT$635North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,627 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,627Illinois: median $1,271 across 47 hospitalsIL$1,271Wisconsin: median $2,029 across 53 hospitalsWI$2,029Michigan: median $791 across 39 hospitalsMI$791New York: median $2,113 across 69 hospitalsNY$2,113Massachusetts: median $2,675 across 34 hospitalsMA$2,675Oregon: median $665 across 23 hospitalsOR$665Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $850 across 30 hospitalsIA$850Indiana: median $1,049 across 38 hospitalsIN$1,049Ohio: median $3,531 across 86 hospitalsOH$3,531Pennsylvania: median $2,168 across 82 hospitalsPA$2,168New Jersey: median $3,786 across 43 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: median $2,420 across 13 hospitalsCT$2,420Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,632 across 115 hospitalsCA$2,632Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,868 across 28 hospitalsCO$1,868Nebraska: median $903 across 22 hospitalsNE$903Missouri: median $1,563 across 39 hospitalsMO$1,563Kentucky: median $1,688 across 23 hospitalsKY$1,688West Virginia: median $379 across 19 hospitalsWV$379Virginia: median $2,033 across 45 hospitalsVA$2,033Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $1,435 across 11 hospitalsNM$1,435Kansas: median $1,198 across 22 hospitalsKS$1,198Arkansas: median $1,117 across 12 hospitalsAR$1,117Tennessee: median $987 across 30 hospitalsTN$987North Carolina: median $1,660 across 21 hospitalsNC$1,660South Carolina: median $2,243 across 23 hospitalsSC$2,243Oklahoma: median $1,568 across 28 hospitalsOK$1,568Louisiana: median $998 across 34 hospitalsLA$998Mississippi: median $1,857 across 26 hospitalsMS$1,857Alabama: median $1,800 across 17 hospitalsAL$1,800Georgia: median $1,776 across 46 hospitalsGA$1,776Hawaii: median $925 across 10 hospitalsHI$925Texas: median $1,640 across 76 hospitalsTX$1,640Florida: median $3,033 across 62 hospitalsFL$3,033
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,975. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ43$3,786+92%$2,031 – $5,419
Ohio OH86$3,531+79%$1,878 – $6,378
Florida FL62$3,033+54%$1,591 – $4,138
Idaho ID13$3,023+53%$773 – $4,755
Massachusetts MA34$2,675+35%$1,447 – $5,173
California CA115$2,632+33%$1,405 – $5,433
Connecticut CT13$2,420+23%$805 – $5,715
South Carolina SC23$2,243+14%$2,171 – $2,451
Pennsylvania PA82$2,168+10%$1,555 – $3,445
New York NY69$2,113+7%$538 – $4,595
Virginia VA45$2,033+3%$1,710 – $2,179
Wisconsin WI53$2,029+3%$1,457 – $2,423
Colorado CO28$1,868−5%$1,213 – $2,525
Mississippi MS26$1,857−6%$987 – $2,750
Alabama AL17$1,800−9%$949 – $4,553
Georgia GA46$1,776−10%$1,526 – $3,216
Washington WA40$1,741−12%$628 – $2,912
Kentucky KY23$1,688−15%$378 – $6,924
North Carolina NC21$1,660−16%$1,369 – $2,300
Texas TX76$1,640−17%$1,035 – $2,998
Minnesota MN37$1,627−18%$599 – $2,194
Oklahoma OK28$1,568−21%$418 – $2,501
Missouri MO39$1,563−21%$509 – $3,313
New Mexico NM11$1,435−27%$723 – $4,204
Illinois IL47$1,271−36%$783 – $3,069
Kansas KS22$1,198−39%$441 – $1,676
Arkansas AR12$1,117−43%$577 – $1,587
Indiana IN38$1,049−47%$674 – $8,973
Louisiana LA34$998−49%$778 – $2,272
Tennessee TN30$987−50%$710 – $1,861
Hawaii HI10$925−53%$439 – $1,755
Nebraska NE22$903−54%$607 – $1,708
New Hampshire NH10$894−55%$196 – $1,050
Iowa IA30$850−57%$693 – $2,513
Michigan MI39$791−60%$534 – $2,447
Oregon OR23$665−66%$628 – $2,120
Montana MT11$635−68%$233 – $1,550
West Virginia WV19$379−81%$162 – $2,352
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $1,975.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,218$2,041$925 – $4,138
Children’s22$1,446$595 – $2,912
Critical access202$1,055$409 – $2,300
Ownership
For-profit159$2,225$1,133 – $5,079
Government200$1,591$534 – $3,077
Non-profit1,083$2,007$791 – $3,877
System affiliation
Part of a system1,188$2,041$903 – $3,986
Independent260$1,381$436 – $3,099

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,696
Median cash price$1,975
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

997 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,886 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,944; most fall between $768 and $3,531.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 997 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$418$984$1,886$3,033$4,458

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($418 vs $4,458).

Of the 1,063 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 997 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,448 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,557 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,448
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here57
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded44
Hospitals that filed this code1,557

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Diagnostic bronchoscopy and biopsy of bronchus family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Bronchoscopy Bronchial/Endobrncl Bx 1+ Sites.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Lung airway scope exam with airway biopsy, one or more sites (CPT 31625) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31625-lung-airway-scope-exam-with-airway-biopsy-one-or-more-sites