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Procedure price report · Diagnostic bronchoscopy and biopsy of bronchus

Lung biopsy through a scope, each additional lobe

CPT 31632the billing code this page is about

An add-on charge for taking lung tissue through the airway wall in one more lobe beyond the first; it is billed once per extra lobe alongside the main bronchoscopy.

Hospitals typically charge $1,034 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 908 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,117. Most fall between $250 and $2,179 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
908
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 908 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
$117$430$1,034$1,862$4,350

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $4,350).

How the prices are spread

$89 – $144: 81 hospitals$89$144 – $235: 54 hospitals$235 – $381: 29 hospitals$235$381 – $618: 86 hospitals$618 – $1,003: 147 hospitals$618$1,003 – $1,628: 194 hospitals$1,628 – $2,643: 142 hospitals$1,628$2,643 – $4,290: 41 hospitals$4,290 – $6,963: 34 hospitals$4,290$6,963 – $11,303: 12 hospitals$6,963median $1,034price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (820 of 908 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$89$14481
$144$23554
$235$38129
$381$61886
$618$1,003147
$1,003$1,628194
$1,628$2,643142
$2,643$4,29041
$4,290$6,96334
$6,963$11,30312

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,034.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $966 across 22 hospitalsWA$966Idaho: median $12,380 across 10 hospitalsID$12,380Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,122 across 25 hospitalsMN$1,122Illinois: median $707 across 38 hospitalsIL$707Wisconsin: median $773 across 40 hospitalsWI$773Michigan: median $398 across 32 hospitalsMI$398New York: median $1,549 across 40 hospitalsNY$1,549Massachusetts: median $2,004 across 16 hospitalsMA$2,004Oregon: median $122 across 17 hospitalsOR$122Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $161 across 23 hospitalsIA$161Indiana: median $303 across 16 hospitalsIN$303Ohio: median $1,738 across 63 hospitalsOH$1,738Pennsylvania: median $1,139 across 37 hospitalsPA$1,139New Jersey: median $4,350 across 27 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,568 across 82 hospitalsCA$1,568Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $788 across 26 hospitalsCO$788Nebraska: median $619 across 13 hospitalsNE$619Missouri: median $1,032 across 29 hospitalsMO$1,032Kentucky: median $586 across 12 hospitalsKY$586West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,194 across 15 hospitalsVA$1,194Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $714 across 10 hospitalsAR$714Tennessee: median $1,861 across 17 hospitalsTN$1,861North Carolina: median $779 across 17 hospitalsNC$779South Carolina: median $1,163 across 16 hospitalsSC$1,163Oklahoma: median $89 across 19 hospitalsOK$89Louisiana: median $839 across 23 hospitalsLA$839Mississippi: median $600 across 17 hospitalsMS$600Alabama: median $1,265 across 10 hospitalsAL$1,265Georgia: median $1,469 across 40 hospitalsGA$1,469Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,179 across 42 hospitalsTX$2,179Florida: median $1,604 across 38 hospitalsFL$1,604
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,034. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$12,380+1097%$1,334 – $12,380
New Jersey NJ27$4,350+321%$2,088 – $5,855
Texas TX42$2,179+111%$628 – $2,310
Massachusetts MA16$2,004+94%$278 – $3,898
Tennessee TN17$1,861+80%$130 – $2,675
Ohio OH63$1,738+68%$770 – $1,957
Florida FL38$1,604+55%$924 – $3,389
California CA82$1,568+52%$783 – $1,782
New York NY40$1,549+50%$114 – $4,595
Georgia GA40$1,469+42%$282 – $2,237
Alabama AL10$1,265+22%$183 – $1,744
Virginia VA15$1,194+15%$876 – $1,252
South Carolina SC16$1,163+12%$703 – $1,163
Pennsylvania PA37$1,139+10%$862 – $2,220
Minnesota MN25$1,122+8%$608 – $1,473
Missouri MO29$1,0320%$137 – $5,647
Washington WA22$966−7%$150 – $1,242
Louisiana LA23$839−19%$296 – $1,032
Colorado CO26$788−24%$430 – $863
North Carolina NC17$779−25%$405 – $1,491
Wisconsin WI40$773−25%$398 – $1,621
Arkansas AR10$714−31%$161 – $1,865
Illinois IL38$707−32%$161 – $1,985
Nebraska NE13$619−40%$133 – $1,161
Mississippi MS17$600−42%$489 – $1,201
Kentucky KY12$586−43%$85 – $2,069
Michigan MI32$398−61%$75 – $617
Indiana IN16$303−71%$108 – $18,005
Iowa IA23$161−84%$161 – $677
Oregon OR17$122−88%$117 – $865
Oklahoma OK19$89−91%$89 – $981
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,034.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care782$1,078$300 – $2,195
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access107$617$135 – $1,678
Ownership
For-profit75$1,316$228 – $3,184
Government116$968$155 – $2,195
Non-profit713$1,032$282 – $2,069
System affiliation
Part of a system771$1,145$398 – $2,220
Independent137$485$113 – $1,628

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,906
Median cash price$1,034
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

684 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $975 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,015; most fall between $205 and $1,872.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 684 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
$108$398$975$1,628$2,310

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($108 vs $2,310).

Of the 751 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 684 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

908 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,046 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted908
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here65
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded70
Hospitals that filed this code1,046

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 W/Transbronchial Lung Bx Each Lobe.

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 biopsy through a scope, each additional lobe (CPT 31632) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31632-lung-biopsy-through-a-scope-each-additional-lobe