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

Bronchoscopy to remove an airway valve, first lobe

CPT 31648the billing code this page is about

Airway exam with a scope during which a previously placed one-way airway valve is taken out; covers removal in the first lung lobe.

Hospitals typically charge $3,701 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 582 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,524. Most fall between $935 and $5,672 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
582
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 582 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
$443$1,700$3,701$5,138$8,256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($443 vs $8,256).

How the prices are spread

$320 – $452: 31 hospitals$320$452 – $636: 27 hospitals$636 – $897: 12 hospitals$636$897 – $1,264: 27 hospitals$1,264 – $1,781: 25 hospitals$1,264$1,781 – $2,511: 56 hospitals$2,511 – $3,538: 66 hospitals$2,511$3,538 – $4,986: 140 hospitals$4,986 – $7,027: 98 hospitals$4,986$7,027 – $9,904: 43 hospitals$7,027median $3,701price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (525 of 582 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$320$45231
$452$63627
$636$89712
$897$1,26427
$1,264$1,78125
$1,781$2,51156
$2,511$3,53866
$3,538$4,986140
$4,986$7,02798
$7,027$9,90443

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,809
Median cash price$3,701
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

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 $3,701.

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 $5,998 across 12 hospitalsWA$5,998Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,941 across 24 hospitalsIL$2,941Wisconsin: median $931 across 22 hospitalsWI$931Michigan: median $242 across 24 hospitalsMI$242New York: median $4,363 across 24 hospitalsNY$4,363Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $366 across 13 hospitalsOR$366Nevada: 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 $507 across 19 hospitalsIA$507Indiana: median $2,293 across 15 hospitalsIN$2,293Ohio: median $3,887 across 41 hospitalsOH$3,887Pennsylvania: median $5,379 across 26 hospitalsPA$5,379New Jersey: median $4,881 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 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 $5,138 across 54 hospitalsCA$5,138Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,285 across 16 hospitalsCO$3,285Nebraska: median $2,214 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,214Missouri: median $4,196 across 12 hospitalsMO$4,196Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 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 $4,133 across 15 hospitalsSC$4,133Oklahoma: median $325 across 15 hospitalsOK$325Louisiana: median $1,723 across 10 hospitalsLA$1,723Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,417 across 32 hospitalsGA$3,417Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,849 across 29 hospitalsTX$3,849Florida: median $3,099 across 29 hospitalsFL$3,099
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,701. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Washington WA12$5,998+62%$4,718 – $8,256
Pennsylvania PA26$5,379+45%$4,239 – $6,233
California CA54$5,138+39%$3,328 – $8,747
New Jersey NJ33$4,881+32%$4,081 – $5,855
New York NY24$4,363+18%$3,537 – $4,654
Missouri MO12$4,196+13%$3,044 – $6,549
South Carolina SC15$4,133+12%$2,171 – $4,133
Ohio OH41$3,887+5%$3,456 – $5,280
Texas TX29$3,849+4%$1,902 – $5,076
Georgia GA32$3,417−8%$2,048 – $6,582
Colorado CO16$3,285−11%$3,285 – $4,109
Florida FL29$3,099−16%$2,417 – $6,700
Illinois IL24$2,941−21%$506 – $6,395
Indiana IN15$2,293−38%$1,977 – $3,243
Nebraska NE10$2,214−40%$499 – $2,580
Louisiana LA10$1,723−53%$1,184 – $2,730
Wisconsin WI22$931−75%$931 – $3,930
Iowa IA19$507−86%$507 – $2,214
Oregon OR13$366−90%$351 – $2,398
Oklahoma OK15$325−91%$325 – $3,682
Michigan MI24$242−93%$193 – $4,358
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not 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
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $3,701.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care509$3,811$1,027 – $5,672
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access61$3,359$931 – $5,732
Ownership
For-profit44$2,280$931 – $4,832
Government60$3,222$935 – $4,718
Non-profit475$3,930$931 – $5,774
System affiliation
Part of a system517$3,930$1,343 – $5,774
Independent65$2,587$454 – $4,824

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,197
Median cash price$3,701
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

420 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,601 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,411; most fall between $931 and $5,774.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 420 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
$443$1,343$3,601$5,166$8,747

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($443 vs $8,747).

Of the 463 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 420 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

582 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 647 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted582
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code647

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Brnchsc Removal Bronchial Valve Initial.

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 remove an airway valve, first lobe (CPT 31648) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31648-bronchoscopy-to-remove-an-airway-valve-first-lobe