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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Bronchoscopy with airway stent revision

CPT 31638the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed into the airways to adjust or reposition a windpipe or bronchial stent that was placed at an earlier session.

Hospitals typically charge $5,525 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 470 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,608. Most fall between $1,076 and $9,094 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
470
States
48
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 470 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
$496$2,175$5,525$8,810$11,249

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($496 vs $11,249).

How the prices are spread

$406 – $581: 38 hospitals$406$581 – $831: 24 hospitals$831 – $1,188: 12 hospitals$831$1,188 – $1,700: 14 hospitals$1,700 – $2,430: 17 hospitals$1,700$2,430 – $3,476: 26 hospitals$3,476 – $4,971: 50 hospitals$3,476$4,971 – $7,108: 95 hospitals$7,108 – $10,165: 105 hospitals$7,108$10,165 – $14,537: 45 hospitals$10,165median $5,525price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (426 of 470 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$406$58138
$581$83124
$831$1,18812
$1,188$1,70014
$1,700$2,43017
$2,430$3,47626
$3,476$4,97150
$4,971$7,10895
$7,108$10,165105
$10,165$14,53745

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,210
Median cash price$5,525
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.77×

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 $5,525.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $423 across 25 hospitalsIL$423Wisconsin: median $9,185 across 10 hospitalsWI$9,185Michigan: median $7,000 across 10 hospitalsMI$7,000New York: median $8,192 across 21 hospitalsNY$8,192Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $630 across 18 hospitalsIA$630Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,290 across 36 hospitalsOH$4,290Pennsylvania: median $8,117 across 26 hospitalsPA$8,117New Jersey: median $6,311 across 24 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,718 across 52 hospitalsCA$6,718Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $4,479 across 20 hospitalsCO$4,479Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $11,249 across 17 hospitalsSC$11,249Oklahoma: median $517 across 14 hospitalsOK$517Louisiana: median $2,268 across 13 hospitalsLA$2,268Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $13,052 across 16 hospitalsGA$13,052Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,924 across 20 hospitalsTX$5,924Florida: median $9,108 across 29 hospitalsFL$9,108
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,525. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA16$13,052+136%$8,887 – $13,052
South Carolina SC17$11,249+104%$5,357 – $11,249
Wisconsin WI10$9,185+66%$7,995 – $9,185
Florida FL29$9,108+65%$1,532 – $14,537
New York NY21$8,192+48%$680 – $8,192
Pennsylvania PA26$8,117+47%$4,104 – $10,750
Michigan MI10$7,000+27%$496 – $9,704
California CA52$6,718+22%$4,406 – $9,094
New Jersey NJ24$6,311+14%$4,627 – $7,669
Texas TX20$5,924+7%$5,092 – $7,054
Colorado CO20$4,479−19%$3,783 – $5,057
Ohio OH36$4,290−22%$2,636 – $7,308
Louisiana LA13$2,268−59%$1,182 – $5,185
Iowa IA18$630−89%$630 – $3,244
Oklahoma OK14$517−91%$517 – $8,223
Illinois IL25$423−92%$380 – $2,543
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not 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
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $5,525.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care412$5,924$1,269 – $9,094
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$4,104$506 – $9,185
Ownership
For-profit39$5,057$517 – $9,108
Government66$5,924$1,532 – $8,887
Non-profit361$5,741$1,182 – $9,094
System affiliation
Part of a system406$5,924$1,532 – $9,094
Independent64$3,223$568 – $7,896

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,120
Median cash price$5,525
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

345 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,057 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,875; most fall between $630 and $9,094.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 345 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
$466$984$5,057$8,338$11,356

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($466 vs $11,356).

Of the 377 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 345 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

470 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 525 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted470
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code525

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Brnchsc Revj Tracheal/Brncl Stent Ins Prev Sess.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Bronchoscopy with airway stent revision (CPT 31638) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31638-bronchoscopy-with-airway-stent-revision