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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Video X-ray swallowing and speech study of the throat

CPT 70371the billing code this page is about

A recorded moving X-ray evaluation of throat function during swallowing and speech, performed with a speech specialist.

Hospitals typically charge $413 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 709 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $461. Most fall between $209 and $900 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
709
States
46
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 709 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
$117$253$413$753$1,156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $1,156).

How the prices are spread

$79 – $109: 28 hospitals$79$109 – $149: 30 hospitals$149 – $204: 46 hospitals$149$204 – $280: 73 hospitals$280 – $384: 113 hospitals$280$384 – $527: 98 hospitals$527 – $722: 92 hospitals$527$722 – $989: 72 hospitals$989 – $1,356: 64 hospitals$989$1,356 – $1,859: 23 hospitals$1,356median $413price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (639 of 709 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$79$10928
$109$14930
$149$20446
$204$28073
$280$384113
$384$52798
$527$72292
$722$98972
$989$1,35664
$1,356$1,85923

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$244
Median cash price$413
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.70×

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 $413.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $465 across 20 hospitalsWA$465Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $278 across 24 hospitalsIL$278Wisconsin: median $507 across 15 hospitalsWI$507Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $286 across 36 hospitalsNY$286Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $104 across 14 hospitalsIA$104Indiana: median $433 across 18 hospitalsIN$433Ohio: median $1,069 across 20 hospitalsOH$1,069Pennsylvania: median $282 across 47 hospitalsPA$282New Jersey: median $276 across 23 hospitalsNJ$276Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $948 across 92 hospitalsCA$948Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $826 across 21 hospitalsCO$826Nebraska: median $241 across 12 hospitalsNE$241Missouri: median $326 across 13 hospitalsMO$326Kentucky: median $505 across 16 hospitalsKY$505West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $388 across 11 hospitalsVA$388Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $211 across 17 hospitalsAZ$211New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $163 across 10 hospitalsTN$163North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $343 across 19 hospitalsSC$343Oklahoma: median $176 across 23 hospitalsOK$176Louisiana: median $123 across 15 hospitalsLA$123Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $598 across 16 hospitalsGA$598Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $410 across 81 hospitalsTX$410Florida: median $728 across 41 hospitalsFL$728
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $413. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH20$1,069+158%$326 – $1,077
California CA92$948+129%$370 – $1,537
Colorado CO21$826+100%$759 – $3,928
Florida FL41$728+76%$361 – $1,014
Georgia GA16$598+45%$293 – $598
Wisconsin WI15$507+23%$507 – $552
Kentucky KY16$505+22%$132 – $505
Washington WA20$465+12%$383 – $699
Indiana IN18$433+5%$324 – $585
Texas TX81$410−1%$238 – $762
Virginia VA11$388−6%$340 – $460
South Carolina SC19$343−17%$258 – $343
Missouri MO13$326−21%$278 – $571
New York NY36$286−31%$275 – $657
Pennsylvania PA47$282−32%$67 – $801
Illinois IL24$278−33%$71 – $898
New Jersey NJ23$276−33%$264 – $740
Nebraska NE12$241−42%$196 – $471
Arizona AZ17$211−49%$176 – $447
Oklahoma OK23$176−57%$69 – $493
Tennessee TN10$163−60%$49 – $695
Louisiana LA15$123−70%$82 – $166
Iowa IA14$104−75%$104 – $241
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $413.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care581$410$199 – $900
Children’s44$440$322 – $1,081
Critical access82$477$256 – $786
Ownership
For-profit114$527$251 – $1,642
Government73$293$181 – $598
Non-profit520$410$208 – $900
System affiliation
Part of a system624$435$211 – $917
Independent85$344$195 – $799

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$811
Median cash price$413
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

502 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $507 and the average of the middle 60% is $523; most fall between $232 and $929.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 502 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
$123$278$507$820$1,081

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($123 vs $1,081).

Of the 556 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 502 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 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

709 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 780 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted709
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code780

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 Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cplx Dynamic Pharyngeal&Sp Eval C/V Rec|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “Video X-ray swallowing and speech study of the throat (CPT 70371) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-70371-video-x-ray-swallowing-and-speech-study-of-the-throat