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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Eye exam for a new patient, intermediate level

CPT 92002the billing code this page is about

An eye examination for a patient new to the practice that includes a history, external and internal eye evaluation, and starting a treatment plan.

Hospitals typically charge $140 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 643 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $137. Most fall between $70 and $223 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
643
States
47
Filings dated
Nov 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 643 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
$57$77$140$195$321

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $321).

How the prices are spread

$42 – $53: 21 hospitals$42$53 – $67: 63 hospitals$67 – $85: 61 hospitals$67$85 – $108: 51 hospitals$108 – $136: 73 hospitals$108$136 – $172: 144 hospitals$172 – $218: 66 hospitals$172$218 – $276: 43 hospitals$276 – $349: 28 hospitals$276$349 – $441: 31 hospitals$349median $140price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (581 of 643 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$42$5321
$53$6763
$67$8561
$85$10851
$108$13673
$136$172144
$172$21866
$218$27643
$276$34928
$349$44131

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$140
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

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 $140.

Alaska: median $236 across 10 hospitalsAK$236Maine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $186 across 19 hospitalsWA$186Idaho: 5 hospitals 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 $167 across 17 hospitalsMN$167Illinois: median $132 across 28 hospitalsIL$132Wisconsin: median $114 across 36 hospitalsWI$114Michigan: median $114 across 17 hospitalsMI$114New York: median $158 across 46 hospitalsNY$158Massachusetts: median $194 across 11 hospitalsMA$194Oregon: median $221 across 16 hospitalsOR$221Nevada: 3 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 $174 across 22 hospitalsIA$174Indiana: median $54 across 20 hospitalsIN$54Ohio: median $181 across 44 hospitalsOH$181Pennsylvania: median $73 across 25 hospitalsPA$73New Jersey: median $143 across 19 hospitalsNJ$143Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $140 across 67 hospitalsCA$140Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $79 across 10 hospitalsMO$79Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $71 across 10 hospitalsVA$71Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $66 across 13 hospitalsTN$66North Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $76 across 14 hospitalsOK$76Louisiana: median $97 across 21 hospitalsLA$97Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $162 across 16 hospitalsGA$162Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $146 across 43 hospitalsTX$146Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $140. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK10$236+68%$170 – $269
Oregon OR16$221+58%$153 – $242
Massachusetts MA11$194+39%$78 – $321
Washington WA19$186+33%$114 – $261
Ohio OH44$181+29%$137 – $385
Iowa IA22$174+25%$100 – $174
Minnesota MN17$167+19%$89 – $195
Georgia GA16$162+16%$93 – $162
New York NY46$158+13%$132 – $473
Texas TX43$146+5%$143 – $172
New Jersey NJ19$143+2%$19 – $172
California CA67$1400%$88 – $292
Illinois IL28$132−6%$65 – $214
Michigan MI17$114−19%$50 – $183
Wisconsin WI36$114−19%$63 – $118
Louisiana LA21$97−31%$46 – $130
Missouri MO10$79−43%$49 – $122
Oklahoma OK14$76−46%$76 – $202
Pennsylvania PA25$73−48%$29 – $132
Virginia VA10$71−50%$57 – $85
Tennessee TN13$66−53%$58 – $123
Indiana IN20$54−61%$46 – $70
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not 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 $140.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care499$140$69 – $233
Children’s24$130$82 – $185
Critical access120$132$72 – $211
Ownership
For-profit40$137$65 – $198
Government98$153$82 – $209
Non-profit505$140$70 – $228
System affiliation
Part of a system524$140$68 – $223
Independent119$150$82 – $230

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$218
Median cash price$140
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

418 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $140 and the average of the middle 60% is $140; most fall between $73 and $238.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 418 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
$63$82$140$209$385

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($63 vs $385).

Of the 443 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 418 gave a usable cash price; 15 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

643 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 681 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted643
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
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 code681

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 Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Oph Svcs Medical Xm&Eval Intermediate New Pt.

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, “Eye exam for a new patient, intermediate level (CPT 92002) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92002-eye-exam-for-a-new-patient-intermediate-level