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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Bronchoscopy with airway heat treatment for asthma, one lobe

CPT 31660the billing code this page is about

Airway exam with a scope during which heat energy is applied to the airway walls to reduce muscle tissue; this code covers treatment of a single lung lobe.

Hospitals typically charge $6,187 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 439 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,578. Most fall between $2,229 and $8,625 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
439
States
47
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 439 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
$500$2,328$6,187$8,192$10,908

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($500 vs $10,908).

How the prices are spread

$336 – $497: 18 hospitals$336$497 – $736: 19 hospitals$736 – $1,090: 4 hospitals$736$1,090 – $1,614: 6 hospitals$1,614 – $2,390: 47 hospitals$1,614$2,390 – $3,537: 41 hospitals$3,537 – $5,237: 31 hospitals$3,537$5,237 – $7,753: 119 hospitals$7,753 – $11,477: 96 hospitals$7,753$11,477 – $16,991: 22 hospitals$11,477median $6,187price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (403 of 439 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$336$49718
$497$73619
$736$1,0904
$1,090$1,6146
$1,614$2,39047
$2,390$3,53741
$3,537$5,23731
$5,237$7,753119
$7,753$11,47796
$11,477$16,99122

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,210
Median cash price$6,187
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.86×

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 $6,187.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $5,431 across 16 hospitalsIL$5,431Wisconsin: median $8,625 across 12 hospitalsWI$8,625Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $8,192 across 20 hospitalsNY$8,192Massachusetts: median $12,207 across 10 hospitalsMA$12,207Oregon: median $336 across 10 hospitalsOR$336Nevada: 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 $500 across 17 hospitalsIA$500Indiana: median $2,292 across 15 hospitalsIN$2,292Ohio: median $6,792 across 30 hospitalsOH$6,792Pennsylvania: median $8,338 across 29 hospitalsPA$8,338New Jersey: median $7,565 across 25 hospitalsNJ$7,565Connecticut: 4 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 $6,300 across 35 hospitalsCA$6,300Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $5,520 across 20 hospitalsCO$5,520Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $6,624 across 12 hospitalsKY$6,624West Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: median $2,205 across 10 hospitalsVA$2,205Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $312 across 13 hospitalsOK$312Louisiana: median $2,635 across 10 hospitalsLA$2,635Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,441 across 23 hospitalsTX$2,441Florida: median $8,014 across 25 hospitalsFL$8,014
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,187. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA10$12,207+97%$6,709 – $15,766
Wisconsin WI12$8,625+39%$5,110 – $8,625
Pennsylvania PA29$8,338+35%$7,215 – $14,907
New York NY20$8,192+32%$3,710 – $8,192
Florida FL25$8,014+30%$3,269 – $8,628
New Jersey NJ25$7,565+22%$4,881 – $8,152
Ohio OH30$6,792+10%$5,536 – $7,346
Kentucky KY12$6,624+7%$5,465 – $27,796
California CA35$6,300+2%$2,987 – $6,300
Colorado CO20$5,520−11%$5,493 – $6,758
Illinois IL16$5,431−12%$761 – $9,836
Louisiana LA10$2,635−57%$1,907 – $3,214
Texas TX23$2,441−61%$2,229 – $4,211
Indiana IN15$2,292−63%$1,977 – $3,242
Virginia VA10$2,205−64%$1,343 – $3,269
Iowa IA17$500−92%$500 – $2,279
Oregon OR10$336−95%$336 – $369
Oklahoma OK13$312−95%$312 – $7,769
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $6,187.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care391$6,300$2,261 – $8,377
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access42$3,592$1,688 – $8,625
Ownership
For-profit42$6,409$2,394 – $9,793
Government56$4,040$2,118 – $8,192
Non-profit341$6,300$2,229 – $8,429
System affiliation
Part of a system394$6,300$2,229 – $8,625
Independent45$4,381$577 – $7,915

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,056
Median cash price$6,187
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

326 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,520 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,060; most fall between $1,907 and $8,338.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 326 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
$415$2,229$5,520$7,995$13,044

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($415 vs $13,044).

Of the 375 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 326 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 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

439 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 504 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted439
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
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 code504

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 5, 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 Bronchoscopic Thermoplasty One 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 heat treatment for asthma, one lobe (CPT 31660) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31660-bronchoscopy-with-airway-heat-treatment-for-asthma-one-lobe