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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Bronchoscopy to suction out the airways, first session

CPT 31645the billing code this page is about

Airway exam with a scope during which thick secretions or mucus plugs are suctioned from the windpipe and lung airways; this code covers the initial clearing session.

Hospitals typically charge $1,911 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,390 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,968. Most fall between $697 and $3,667 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,390
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 1,390 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
$371$827$1,911$3,169$5,156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($371 vs $5,156).

How the prices are spread

$306 – $422: 96 hospitals$306$422 – $581: 85 hospitals$581 – $801: 74 hospitals$581$801 – $1,104: 100 hospitals$1,104 – $1,522: 133 hospitals$1,104$1,522 – $2,097: 200 hospitals$2,097 – $2,890: 207 hospitals$2,097$2,890 – $3,983: 181 hospitals$3,983 – $5,488: 124 hospitals$3,983$5,488 – $7,563: 52 hospitals$5,488median $1,911price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,252 of 1,390 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$306$42296
$422$58185
$581$80174
$801$1,104100
$1,104$1,522133
$1,522$2,097200
$2,097$2,890207
$2,890$3,983181
$3,983$5,488124
$5,488$7,56352

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,818
Median cash price$1,911
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.05×

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 $1,911.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $714 across 10 hospitalsNH$714Washington: median $2,912 across 36 hospitalsWA$2,912Idaho: median $4,637 across 13 hospitalsID$4,637Montana: median $570 across 10 hospitalsMT$570North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,625 across 43 hospitalsMN$1,625Illinois: median $1,323 across 44 hospitalsIL$1,323Wisconsin: median $1,395 across 54 hospitalsWI$1,395Michigan: median $1,383 across 44 hospitalsMI$1,383New York: median $2,041 across 67 hospitalsNY$2,041Massachusetts: median $2,048 across 33 hospitalsMA$2,048Oregon: median $1,096 across 35 hospitalsOR$1,096Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $749 across 26 hospitalsIA$749Indiana: median $730 across 36 hospitalsIN$730Ohio: median $3,169 across 86 hospitalsOH$3,169Pennsylvania: median $2,294 across 65 hospitalsPA$2,294New Jersey: median $4,278 across 43 hospitalsNJ$4,278Connecticut: median $1,423 across 12 hospitalsCT$1,423Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,766 across 124 hospitalsCA$2,766Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,868 across 32 hospitalsCO$1,868Nebraska: median $838 across 17 hospitalsNE$838Missouri: median $1,223 across 43 hospitalsMO$1,223Kentucky: median $1,556 across 17 hospitalsKY$1,556West Virginia: median $429 across 18 hospitalsWV$429Virginia: median $1,939 across 27 hospitalsVA$1,939Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $1,209 across 10 hospitalsNM$1,209Kansas: median $459 across 20 hospitalsKS$459Arkansas: median $725 across 15 hospitalsAR$725Tennessee: median $394 across 14 hospitalsTN$394North Carolina: median $1,416 across 33 hospitalsNC$1,416South Carolina: median $4,065 across 29 hospitalsSC$4,065Oklahoma: median $910 across 22 hospitalsOK$910Louisiana: median $927 across 22 hospitalsLA$927Mississippi: median $1,041 across 19 hospitalsMS$1,041Alabama: median $1,588 across 14 hospitalsAL$1,588Georgia: median $1,755 across 59 hospitalsGA$1,755Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,616 across 71 hospitalsTX$1,616Florida: median $2,927 across 55 hospitalsFL$2,927
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,911. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID13$4,637+143%$1,780 – $4,755
New Jersey NJ43$4,278+124%$1,910 – $5,855
South Carolina SC29$4,065+113%$2,171 – $4,065
Ohio OH86$3,169+66%$2,340 – $5,768
Florida FL55$2,927+53%$1,591 – $3,389
Washington WA36$2,912+52%$1,105 – $3,877
California CA124$2,766+45%$1,467 – $6,032
Pennsylvania PA65$2,294+20%$825 – $3,245
Massachusetts MA33$2,048+7%$882 – $4,886
New York NY67$2,041+7%$538 – $4,595
Virginia VA27$1,939+1%$1,245 – $3,331
Colorado CO32$1,868−2%$1,125 – $2,679
Georgia GA59$1,755−8%$922 – $3,216
Minnesota MN43$1,625−15%$1,134 – $1,826
Texas TX71$1,616−15%$1,035 – $3,092
Alabama AL14$1,588−17%$738 – $7,409
Kentucky KY17$1,556−19%$343 – $6,924
Connecticut CT12$1,423−26%$760 – $2,782
North Carolina NC33$1,416−26%$798 – $1,795
Wisconsin WI54$1,395−27%$1,383 – $2,242
Michigan MI44$1,383−28%$568 – $2,447
Illinois IL44$1,323−31%$477 – $2,877
Missouri MO43$1,223−36%$420 – $2,167
New Mexico NM10$1,209−37%$644 – $1,803
Oregon OR35$1,096−43%$500 – $4,163
Mississippi MS19$1,041−46%$411 – $2,144
Louisiana LA22$927−52%$627 – $2,113
Oklahoma OK22$910−52%$324 – $2,233
Nebraska NE17$838−56%$545 – $948
Iowa IA26$749−61%$638 – $3,053
Indiana IN36$730−62%$456 – $4,046
Arkansas AR15$725−62%$251 – $1,284
New Hampshire NH10$714−63%$183 – $1,422
Montana MT10$570−70%$161 – $2,124
Kansas KS20$459−76%$340 – $1,630
West Virginia WV18$429−78%$153 – $1,543
Tennessee TN14$394−79%$293 – $1,939
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $1,911.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,165$2,041$798 – $3,880
Children’s26$2,156$539 – $4,124
Critical access193$1,134$375 – $2,417
Ownership
For-profit128$1,801$765 – $4,039
Government194$1,666$482 – $2,864
Non-profit1,062$2,014$706 – $3,880
System affiliation
Part of a system1,170$2,041$824 – $3,863
Independent220$1,146$378 – $2,954

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,474
Median cash price$1,911
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

1,013 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,936 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,998; most fall between $714 and $3,389.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,013 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
$371$910$1,936$3,120$4,800

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($371 vs $4,800).

Of the 1,078 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,013 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 38 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,390 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,485 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,390
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) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code1,485

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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Bronchoscopy W/Ther Aspir Trachbrncl Tree 1st.

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, “Bronchoscopy to suction out the airways, first session (CPT 31645) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31645-bronchoscopy-to-suction-out-the-airways-first-session