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Esophagus muscle pressure study

CPT 91010the billing code this page is about

A thin tube passed through the nose measures the squeezing pressures and muscle coordination of the esophagus and its valves during swallowing.

Hospitals typically charge $1,044 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,632 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,096. Most fall between $458 and $2,072 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,632
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 1,632 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
$267$530$1,044$1,830$3,166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($267 vs $3,166).

How the prices are spread

$140 – $197: 29 hospitals$140$197 – $276: 56 hospitals$276 – $388: 93 hospitals$276$388 – $545: 159 hospitals$545 – $765: 206 hospitals$545$765 – $1,074: 227 hospitals$1,074 – $1,508: 253 hospitals$1,074$1,508 – $2,117: 206 hospitals$2,117 – $2,971: 134 hospitals$2,117$2,971 – $4,172: 107 hospitals$2,971median $1,044price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,470 of 1,632 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$140$19729
$197$27656
$276$38893
$388$545159
$545$765206
$765$1,074227
$1,074$1,508253
$1,508$2,117206
$2,117$2,971134
$2,971$4,172107

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$381
Median cash price$1,044
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.7×

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 $1,044.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $1,050 across 11 hospitalsNH$1,050Washington: median $654 across 32 hospitalsWA$654Idaho: median $1,475 across 13 hospitalsID$1,475Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $633 across 40 hospitalsMN$633Illinois: median $901 across 53 hospitalsIL$901Wisconsin: median $853 across 63 hospitalsWI$853Michigan: median $290 across 45 hospitalsMI$290New York: median $628 across 56 hospitalsNY$628Massachusetts: median $1,483 across 30 hospitalsMA$1,483Oregon: median $1,308 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,308Nevada: median $1,550 across 10 hospitalsNV$1,550Wyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,489 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,489Iowa: median $766 across 28 hospitalsIA$766Indiana: median $1,054 across 48 hospitalsIN$1,054Ohio: median $1,333 across 90 hospitalsOH$1,333Pennsylvania: median $931 across 71 hospitalsPA$931New Jersey: median $625 across 49 hospitalsNJ$625Connecticut: median $1,267 across 12 hospitalsCT$1,267Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,925 across 110 hospitalsCA$1,925Utah: median $1,830 across 28 hospitalsUT$1,830Colorado: median $1,456 across 35 hospitalsCO$1,456Nebraska: median $1,129 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,129Missouri: median $1,279 across 41 hospitalsMO$1,279Kentucky: median $922 across 39 hospitalsKY$922West Virginia: median $538 across 14 hospitalsWV$538Virginia: median $554 across 36 hospitalsVA$554Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $570 across 39 hospitalsAZ$570New Mexico: median $1,045 across 11 hospitalsNM$1,045Kansas: median $503 across 22 hospitalsKS$503Arkansas: median $643 across 15 hospitalsAR$643Tennessee: median $504 across 39 hospitalsTN$504North Carolina: median $1,035 across 42 hospitalsNC$1,035South Carolina: median $1,583 across 33 hospitalsSC$1,583Oklahoma: median $844 across 20 hospitalsOK$844Louisiana: median $420 across 28 hospitalsLA$420Mississippi: median $413 across 21 hospitalsMS$413Alabama: median $559 across 25 hospitalsAL$559Georgia: median $1,513 across 56 hospitalsGA$1,513Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,257 across 133 hospitalsTX$1,257Florida: median $1,900 across 88 hospitalsFL$1,900
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,044. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA110$1,925+84%$1,045 – $3,629
Florida FL88$1,900+82%$1,205 – $2,567
Utah UT28$1,830+75%$1,627 – $2,034
South Carolina SC33$1,583+52%$967 – $2,072
Nevada NV10$1,550+48%$222 – $2,503
Georgia GA56$1,513+45%$1,127 – $2,586
South Dakota SD10$1,489+43%$524 – $1,489
Massachusetts MA30$1,483+42%$630 – $2,371
Idaho ID13$1,475+41%$475 – $1,475
Colorado CO35$1,456+39%$586 – $1,961
Ohio OH90$1,333+28%$644 – $2,358
Oregon OR18$1,308+25%$115 – $2,164
Missouri MO41$1,279+23%$512 – $1,515
Connecticut CT12$1,267+21%$1,116 – $2,999
Texas TX133$1,257+20%$771 – $2,878
Nebraska NE15$1,129+8%$293 – $1,278
Indiana IN48$1,054+1%$644 – $2,227
New Hampshire NH11$1,050+1%$81 – $3,058
New Mexico NM11$1,0450%$611 – $1,658
North Carolina NC42$1,035−1%$758 – $1,465
Pennsylvania PA71$931−11%$421 – $3,051
Kentucky KY39$922−12%$479 – $3,166
Illinois IL53$901−14%$300 – $2,394
Wisconsin WI63$853−18%$198 – $1,459
Oklahoma OK20$844−19%$373 – $1,367
Iowa IA28$766−27%$308 – $1,643
Washington WA32$654−37%$596 – $1,826
Arkansas AR15$643−38%$267 – $1,274
Minnesota MN40$633−39%$314 – $956
New York NY56$628−40%$342 – $2,380
New Jersey NJ49$625−40%$432 – $1,661
Arizona AZ39$570−45%$371 – $3,960
Alabama AL25$559−46%$278 – $1,011
Virginia VA36$554−47%$399 – $1,137
West Virginia WV14$538−49%$347 – $1,170
Tennessee TN39$504−52%$227 – $609
Kansas KS22$503−52%$249 – $1,279
Louisiana LA28$420−60%$279 – $788
Mississippi MS21$413−60%$279 – $768
Michigan MI45$290−72%$66 – $880
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $1,044.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,385$1,055$475 – $2,133
Children’s47$1,830$598 – $2,894
Critical access192$727$198 – $1,489
Ownership
For-profit231$1,333$546 – $3,326
Government205$807$371 – $1,603
Non-profit1,188$1,044$443 – $2,006
System affiliation
Part of a system1,424$1,063$467 – $2,164
Independent208$764$396 – $1,588

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,009
Median cash price$1,044
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

1,165 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,129 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,151; most fall between $478 and $2,034.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,165 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
$251$557$1,129$1,830$2,943

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($251 vs $2,943).

Of the 1,234 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,165 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 43 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,632 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (41%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,741 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,632
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded51
Hospitals that filed this code1,741

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other gastrointestinal diagnostic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Esophageal Motility Study W/Interp&Rpt|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, “Esophagus muscle pressure study (CPT 91010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-91010-esophagus-muscle-pressure-study