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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Bronchoscopy with airway valve placement, first lobe

CPT 31647the billing code this page is about

Airway exam with a scope during which a balloon is used to assess air leak and a one-way valve is placed to block a lung segment; covers the first lung lobe treated.

Hospitals typically charge $5,357 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 541 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,587. Most fall between $2,075 and $9,376 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
541
States
46
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 541 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
$534$2,534$5,357$8,792$12,994

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($534 vs $12,994).

How the prices are spread

$367 – $540: 35 hospitals$367$540 – $796: 12 hospitals$796 – $1,173: 22 hospitals$796$1,173 – $1,728: 7 hospitals$1,728 – $2,546: 44 hospitals$1,728$2,546 – $3,751: 55 hospitals$3,751 – $5,528: 80 hospitals$3,751$5,528 – $8,144: 90 hospitals$8,144 – $12,000: 108 hospitals$8,144$12,000 – $17,682: 38 hospitals$12,000median $5,357price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (491 of 541 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$367$54035
$540$79612
$796$1,17322
$1,173$1,7287
$1,728$2,54644
$2,546$3,75155
$3,751$5,52880
$5,528$8,14490
$8,144$12,000108
$12,000$17,68238

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,210
Median cash price$5,357
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.74×

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 $5,357.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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: median $13,317 across 11 hospitalsWA$13,317Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,534 across 23 hospitalsIL$2,534Wisconsin: median $974 across 22 hospitalsWI$974Michigan: median $7,000 across 13 hospitalsMI$7,000New York: median $8,192 across 23 hospitalsNY$8,192Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $382 across 11 hospitalsOR$382Nevada: 2 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 $534 across 20 hospitalsIA$534Indiana: median $2,279 across 14 hospitalsIN$2,279Ohio: median $4,290 across 29 hospitalsOH$4,290Pennsylvania: median $8,338 across 26 hospitalsPA$8,338New Jersey: median $7,662 across 34 hospitalsNJ$7,662Connecticut: 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 $5,057 across 16 hospitalsCO$5,057Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $4,348 across 12 hospitalsMO$4,348Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $11,249 across 14 hospitalsSC$11,249Oklahoma: median $337 across 16 hospitalsOK$337Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,682 across 36 hospitalsGA$5,682Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,097 across 28 hospitalsTX$4,097Florida: median $3,200 across 28 hospitalsFL$3,200
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,357. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Washington WA11$13,317+149%$8,447 – $13,938
South Carolina SC14$11,249+110%$5,357 – $11,249
Pennsylvania PA26$8,338+56%$4,536 – $11,703
New York NY23$8,192+53%$7,210 – $8,810
New Jersey NJ34$7,662+43%$5,339 – $9,237
Michigan MI13$7,000+31%$974 – $9,704
California CA52$6,718+25%$5,002 – $8,792
Georgia GA36$5,682+6%$2,551 – $12,196
Colorado CO16$5,057−6%$5,057 – $7,722
Missouri MO12$4,348−19%$2,920 – $14,596
Ohio OH29$4,290−20%$4,095 – $15,418
Texas TX28$4,097−24%$3,219 – $5,166
Florida FL28$3,200−40%$2,285 – $10,908
Illinois IL23$2,534−53%$831 – $5,521
Indiana IN14$2,279−57%$1,977 – $3,242
Wisconsin WI22$974−82%$974 – $9,376
Iowa IA20$534−90%$534 – $4,707
Oregon OR11$382−93%$367 – $382
Oklahoma OK16$337−94%$337 – $6,914
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $5,357.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care470$5,636$2,279 – $9,237
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access60$3,959$974 – $10,624
Ownership
For-profit42$3,200$2,182 – $8,887
Government67$5,053$2,182 – $8,404
Non-profit429$5,636$1,977 – $9,376
System affiliation
Part of a system478$5,365$2,279 – $9,376
Independent63$4,796$565 – $8,120

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,887
Median cash price$5,357
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

406 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,697 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,065; most fall between $1,279 and $9,866.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 406 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
$527$2,182$4,697$8,792$13,173

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($527 vs $13,173).

Of the 460 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 406 gave a usable cash price; 39 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

541 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 620 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted541
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code620

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Brnchsc Occlusion&Insert Bronch Valve Init 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, “Bronchoscopy with airway valve placement, first lobe (CPT 31647) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31647-bronchoscopy-with-airway-valve-placement-first-lobe