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Rectal sensation, tone and stretch test with balloon

CPT 91120the billing code this page is about

A balloon is inflated in the rectum in graded steps to measure sensation, muscle tone and how much the rectum stretches; this code was used before newer versions replaced it.

Hospitals typically charge $396 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 419 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $446. Most fall between $147 and $860 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
419
States
46
Filings dated
Aug 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 419 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
$76$193$396$719$1,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $1,311).

How the prices are spread

$48 – $69: 21 hospitals$48$69 – $99: 19 hospitals$99 – $142: 24 hospitals$99$142 – $204: 32 hospitals$204 – $293: 35 hospitals$204$293 – $421: 70 hospitals$421 – $605: 55 hospitals$421$605 – $869: 70 hospitals$869 – $1,249: 32 hospitals$869$1,249 – $1,793: 24 hospitals$1,249median $396price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (382 of 419 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$48$6921
$69$9919
$99$14224
$142$20432
$204$29335
$293$42170
$421$60555
$605$86970
$869$1,24932
$1,249$1,79324

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $396.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $310 across 20 hospitalsIL$310Wisconsin: median $1,832 across 15 hospitalsWI$1,832Michigan: median $54 across 21 hospitalsMI$54New York: median $369 across 22 hospitalsNY$369Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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 $112 across 16 hospitalsIA$112Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $560 across 10 hospitalsOH$560Pennsylvania: median $110 across 25 hospitalsPA$110New Jersey: median $375 across 30 hospitalsNJ$375Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $390 across 20 hospitalsCA$390Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $644 across 13 hospitalsNC$644South Carolina: median $450 across 17 hospitalsSC$450Oklahoma: median $95 across 12 hospitalsOK$95Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $165 across 10 hospitalsMS$165Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $747 across 19 hospitalsGA$747Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $651 across 45 hospitalsTX$651Florida: median $508 across 16 hospitalsFL$508
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $396. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI15$1,832+362%$383 – $1,929
Georgia GA19$747+89%$323 – $1,042
Texas TX45$651+64%$521 – $651
North Carolina NC13$644+63%$315 – $644
Ohio OH10$560+41%$122 – $719
Florida FL16$508+28%$361 – $1,384
South Carolina SC17$450+14%$223 – $450
California CA20$390−2%$156 – $4,411
New Jersey NJ30$375−5%$340 – $833
New York NY22$369−7%$369 – $914
Illinois IL20$310−22%$48 – $860
Mississippi MS10$165−58%$153 – $216
Iowa IA16$112−72%$112 – $234
Pennsylvania PA25$110−72%$31 – $514
Oklahoma OK12$95−76%$95 – $95
Michigan MI21$54−86%$54 – $101
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $396.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care377$389$156 – $820
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access29$445$76 – $1,033
Ownership
For-profit42$323$156 – $651
Government62$369$273 – $644
Non-profit314$415$112 – $870
System affiliation
Part of a system365$415$125 – $851
Independent54$369$156 – $958

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$827
Median cash price$396
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

286 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $456 and the average of the middle 60% is $472; most fall between $150 and $851.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 286 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
$95$205$456$719$1,384

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $1,384).

Of the 301 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 286 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

419 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 440 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted419
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code440

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rectal Sesation Tone & Compliance Test|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, “Rectal sensation, tone and stretch test with balloon (CPT 91120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-91120-rectal-sensation-tone-and-stretch-test-with-balloon