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Procedure price report · Other gastrointestinal diagnostic procedures

Breath test for hydrogen or methane

CPT 91065the billing code this page is about

Breath samples are collected after drinking a sugar solution to check for lactose intolerance, bacterial overgrowth, or similar digestive problems.

Hospitals typically charge $338 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 808 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $364. Most fall between $156 and $669 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
808
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 808 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
$81$183$338$590$1,131

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($81 vs $1,131).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $52: 9 hospitals$35$52 – $77: 21 hospitals$77 – $114: 47 hospitals$77$114 – $169: 60 hospitals$169 – $250: 133 hospitals$169$250 – $370: 112 hospitals$370 – $548: 139 hospitals$370$548 – $812: 131 hospitals$812 – $1,202: 42 hospitals$812$1,202 – $1,781: 43 hospitals$1,202median $338price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (737 of 808 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$529
$52$7721
$77$11447
$114$16960
$169$250133
$250$370112
$370$548139
$548$812131
$812$1,20242
$1,202$1,78143

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$338
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.53×

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 $338.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $220 across 14 hospitalsWA$220Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $95 across 20 hospitalsMN$95Illinois: median $420 across 42 hospitalsIL$420Wisconsin: median $344 across 40 hospitalsWI$344Michigan: median $296 across 45 hospitalsMI$296New York: median $198 across 41 hospitalsNY$198Massachusetts: median $539 across 17 hospitalsMA$539Oregon: median $17 across 10 hospitalsOR$17Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $39 across 22 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: median $502 across 24 hospitalsIN$502Ohio: median $468 across 48 hospitalsOH$468Pennsylvania: median $249 across 33 hospitalsPA$249New Jersey: median $184 across 22 hospitalsNJ$184Connecticut: median $374 across 11 hospitalsCT$374Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $717 across 55 hospitalsCA$717Utah: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $686 across 23 hospitalsCO$686Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $340 across 18 hospitalsMO$340Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $463 across 16 hospitalsVA$463Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $69 across 14 hospitalsTN$69North Carolina: median $255 across 22 hospitalsNC$255South Carolina: median $321 across 10 hospitalsSC$321Oklahoma: median $20 across 16 hospitalsOK$20Louisiana: median $135 across 16 hospitalsLA$135Mississippi: median $186 across 11 hospitalsMS$186Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $669 across 25 hospitalsGA$669Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $627 across 57 hospitalsTX$627Florida: median $738 across 40 hospitalsFL$738
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $338. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL40$738+118%$148 – $1,312
California CA55$717+112%$168 – $1,781
Colorado CO23$686+103%$278 – $1,906
Georgia GA25$669+98%$460 – $2,567
Texas TX57$627+85%$548 – $826
Massachusetts MA17$539+59%$413 – $759
Indiana IN24$502+48%$91 – $636
Ohio OH48$468+38%$226 – $603
Virginia VA16$463+37%$69 – $518
Illinois IL42$420+24%$272 – $465
Connecticut CT11$374+10%$325 – $410
Wisconsin WI40$344+2%$268 – $608
Missouri MO18$3400%$230 – $606
South Carolina SC10$321−5%$235 – $522
Michigan MI45$296−12%$91 – $462
North Carolina NC22$255−25%$143 – $255
Pennsylvania PA33$249−26%$198 – $337
Washington WA14$220−35%$220 – $443
New York NY41$198−42%$185 – $381
Mississippi MS11$186−45%$158 – $200
New Jersey NJ22$184−46%$173 – $209
Louisiana LA16$135−60%$87 – $364
Minnesota MN20$95−72%$81 – $442
Tennessee TN14$69−79%$69 – $225
Iowa IA22$39−88%$26 – $416
Oklahoma OK16$20−94%$20 – $413
Oregon OR10$17−95%$17 – $219
Utah UT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $338.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care665$365$160 – $669
Children’s40$398$156 – $1,150
Critical access100$268$107 – $569
Ownership
For-profit64$520$222 – $686
Government111$255$148 – $624
Non-profit630$351$156 – $657
System affiliation
Part of a system704$366$165 – $675
Independent104$226$143 – $535

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$551
Median cash price$338
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

593 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $413 and the average of the middle 60% is $410; most fall between $182 and $686.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 593 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
$91$209$413$627$1,221

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($91 vs $1,221).

Of the 654 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 593 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

808 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 891 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted808
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here58
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 — excluded25
Hospitals that filed this code891

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 Breath Hydrogen/Methane Test.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Breath test for hydrogen or methane (CPT 91065) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-91065-breath-test-for-hydrogen-or-methane