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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Bronchoscopy with airway heat treatment, two or more lobes

CPT 31661the billing code this page is about

Airway exam with a scope during which heat energy is applied to airway walls in two or more lung lobes in the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $6,085 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 432 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,712. Most fall between $2,386 and $8,377 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
432
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 432 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
$530$2,521$6,085$8,152$12,207

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($530 vs $12,207).

How the prices are spread

$356 – $527: 18 hospitals$356$527 – $778: 18 hospitals$778 – $1,150: 5 hospitals$778$1,150 – $1,700: 4 hospitals$1,700 – $2,513: 40 hospitals$1,700$2,513 – $3,715: 48 hospitals$3,715 – $5,490: 37 hospitals$3,715$5,490 – $8,115: 132 hospitals$8,115 – $11,995: 70 hospitals$8,115$11,995 – $17,730: 26 hospitals$11,995median $6,085price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (398 of 432 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$356$52718
$527$77818
$778$1,1505
$1,150$1,7004
$1,700$2,51340
$2,513$3,71548
$3,715$5,49037
$5,490$8,115132
$8,115$11,99570
$11,995$17,73026

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,210
Median cash price$6,085
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $6,085.

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: 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: median $3,232 across 10 hospitalsWA$3,232Idaho: 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 $6,535 across 22 hospitalsIL$6,535Wisconsin: median $7,475 across 12 hospitalsWI$7,475Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $8,192 across 20 hospitalsNY$8,192Massachusetts: median $21,494 across 10 hospitalsMA$21,494Oregon: median $356 across 10 hospitalsOR$356Nevada: 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 $530 across 17 hospitalsIA$530Indiana: median $2,399 across 15 hospitalsIN$2,399Ohio: median $7,766 across 29 hospitalsOH$7,766Pennsylvania: median $8,338 across 24 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 $5,998 across 34 hospitalsCA$5,998Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $6,624 across 20 hospitalsCO$6,624Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 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: 3 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 $330 across 13 hospitalsOK$330Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 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 $2,521 across 23 hospitalsTX$2,521Florida: median $8,014 across 25 hospitalsFL$8,014
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,085. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA10$21,494+253%$6,709 – $21,494
Pennsylvania PA24$8,338+37%$7,215 – $16,991
New York NY20$8,192+35%$3,710 – $8,192
Florida FL25$8,014+32%$3,296 – $10,214
Ohio OH29$7,766+28%$5,536 – $13,203
New Jersey NJ25$7,565+24%$4,881 – $8,152
Wisconsin WI12$7,475+23%$6,085 – $7,475
Colorado CO20$6,624+9%$5,723 – $7,161
Illinois IL22$6,535+7%$1,080 – $6,739
California CA34$5,998−1%$2,987 – $6,039
Washington WA10$3,232−47%$3,232 – $4,187
Texas TX23$2,521−59%$2,386 – $4,211
Indiana IN15$2,399−61%$2,069 – $3,393
Iowa IA17$530−91%$530 – $2,279
Oregon OR10$356−94%$356 – $374
Oklahoma OK13$330−95%$330 – $7,167
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not 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
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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
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
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 $6,085.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care385$6,298$2,386 – $8,429
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access43$3,760$1,080 – $7,869
Ownership
For-profit41$6,855$2,495 – $9,793
Government56$4,737$2,386 – $8,192
Non-profit335$6,039$2,299 – $8,355
System affiliation
Part of a system387$6,192$2,386 – $8,377
Independent45$4,381$610 – $7,915

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,335
Median cash price$6,085
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

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,403 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,094; most fall between $1,493 and $8,887.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 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
$356$2,299$5,403$8,014$13,203

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($356 vs $13,203).

Of the 360 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 36 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

432 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 502 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted432
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
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 code502

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 Bronchoscopic Thermoplasty 2/> Lobes.

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, two or more lobes (CPT 31661) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31661-bronchoscopy-with-airway-heat-treatment-two-or-more-lobes