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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Refraction to measure eyeglass prescription

CPT 92015the billing code this page is about

Measurement of the eye's focusing power to determine the lens prescription needed for glasses or contact lenses.

Hospitals typically charge $33 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 404 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $35. Most fall between $18 and $74 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
404
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 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 404 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
$13$20$33$54$108

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $108).

How the prices are spread

$10 – $13: 18 hospitals$10$13 – $17: 28 hospitals$17 – $22: 53 hospitals$17$22 – $29: 56 hospitals$29 – $38: 60 hospitals$29$38 – $50: 52 hospitals$50 – $65: 27 hospitals$50$65 – $86: 37 hospitals$86 – $113: 19 hospitals$86$113 – $148: 16 hospitals$113median $33price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (366 of 404 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$10$1318
$13$1728
$17$2253
$22$2956
$29$3860
$38$5052
$50$6527
$65$8637
$86$11319
$113$14816

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $33.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $42 across 24 hospitalsMN$42Illinois: median $33 across 17 hospitalsIL$33Wisconsin: median $39 across 33 hospitalsWI$39Michigan: median $35 across 19 hospitalsMI$35New York: median $62 across 22 hospitalsNY$62Massachusetts: median $68 across 13 hospitalsMA$68Oregon: median $38 across 13 hospitalsOR$38Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $21 across 34 hospitalsOH$21Pennsylvania: median $15 across 22 hospitalsPA$15New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $75 across 14 hospitalsCA$75Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $24 across 19 hospitalsWV$24Virginia: median $27 across 12 hospitalsVA$27Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $27 across 10 hospitalsOK$27Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $15 across 29 hospitalsTX$15Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $33. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA14$75+127%$30 – $102
Massachusetts MA13$68+106%$51 – $85
New York NY22$62+87%$22 – $166
Minnesota MN24$42+27%$35 – $54
Wisconsin WI33$39+17%$20 – $42
Oregon OR13$38+16%$16 – $38
Michigan MI19$35+6%$28 – $79
Illinois IL17$33−1%$27 – $51
Oklahoma OK10$27−17%$27 – $27
Virginia VA12$27−20%$13 – $27
West Virginia WV19$24−27%$19 – $29
Ohio OH34$21−36%$18 – $82
Texas TX29$15−55%$5 – $93
Pennsylvania PA22$15−55%$12 – $33
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $33.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care301$30$18 – $75
Children’s21$51$24 – $148
Critical access81$38$20 – $54
Ownership
For-profit27$33$18 – $75
Government66$38$21 – $86
Non-profit310$32$18 – $56
System affiliation
Part of a system330$32$18 – $54
Independent74$47$22 – $102

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$55
Median cash price$33
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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 $33 and the average of the middle 60% is $34; most fall between $18 and $67.

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
$13$20$33$54$86

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $86).

Of the 310 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 286 gave a usable cash price; 12 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

404 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 461 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted404
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code461

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.

Related procedures

Part of the Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Determination Refractive State.

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, “Refraction to measure eyeglass prescription (CPT 92015) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92015-refraction-to-measure-eyeglass-prescription