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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Complete eye exam under anesthesia

CPT 92018the billing code this page is about

A full examination of the eyes performed while the patient is under general anesthesia, used when a person cannot cooperate with an exam while awake.

Hospitals typically charge $1,985 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 441 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,789. Most fall between $257 and $3,398 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
441
States
49
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 441 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
$158$305$1,985$3,113$5,620

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 36× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $5,620).

How the prices are spread

$131 – $195: 34 hospitals$131$195 – $290: 38 hospitals$290 – $431: 33 hospitals$290$431 – $640: 16 hospitals$640 – $952: 26 hospitals$640$952 – $1,415: 14 hospitals$1,415 – $2,103: 41 hospitals$1,415$2,103 – $3,125: 110 hospitals$3,125 – $4,645: 47 hospitals$3,125$4,645 – $6,903: 39 hospitals$4,645median $1,985price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (398 of 441 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$131$19534
$195$29038
$290$43133
$431$64016
$640$95226
$952$1,41514
$1,415$2,10341
$2,103$3,125110
$3,125$4,64547
$4,645$6,90339

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,429
Median cash price$1,985
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.82×

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 $1,985.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $2,446 across 13 hospitalsMN$2,446Illinois: median $332 across 18 hospitalsIL$332Wisconsin: median $1,705 across 19 hospitalsWI$1,705Michigan: median $176 across 20 hospitalsMI$176New York: median $2,761 across 27 hospitalsNY$2,761Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $303 across 15 hospitalsIA$303Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $571 across 10 hospitalsOH$571Pennsylvania: median $134 across 16 hospitalsPA$134New Jersey: median $2,747 across 21 hospitalsNJ$2,747Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,162 across 41 hospitalsCA$2,162Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,368 across 12 hospitalsMO$2,368Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $142 across 12 hospitalsWV$142Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $5,620 across 14 hospitalsSC$5,620Oklahoma: median $229 across 12 hospitalsOK$229Louisiana: median $1,258 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,258Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,989 across 11 hospitalsGA$5,989Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,367 across 33 hospitalsTX$2,367Florida: median $3,356 across 27 hospitalsFL$3,356
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,985. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$5,989+202%$721 – $5,989
South Carolina SC14$5,620+183%$1,407 – $6,643
Florida FL27$3,356+69%$2,172 – $4,574
New York NY27$2,761+39%$507 – $2,968
New Jersey NJ21$2,747+38%$2,582 – $3,113
Minnesota MN13$2,446+23%$409 – $2,446
Missouri MO12$2,368+19%$237 – $3,398
Texas TX33$2,367+19%$1,045 – $3,476
California CA41$2,162+9%$1,586 – $2,162
Wisconsin WI19$1,705−14%$641 – $1,972
Louisiana LA11$1,258−37%$815 – $2,346
Ohio OH10$571−71%$217 – $1,767
Illinois IL18$332−83%$131 – $1,934
Iowa IA15$303−85%$303 – $303
Oklahoma OK12$229−88%$229 – $229
Michigan MI20$176−91%$142 – $3,269
West Virginia WV12$142−93%$128 – $1,115
Pennsylvania PA16$134−93%$90 – $3,430
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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
Utah UT1not 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 $1,985.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care367$2,162$303 – $3,461
Children’s24$1,258$292 – $4,319
Critical access49$446$141 – $1,710
Ownership
For-profit50$3,241$229 – $6,355
Government60$1,413$300 – $2,761
Non-profit330$1,934$235 – $3,356
System affiliation
Part of a system367$2,162$292 – $3,398
Independent74$1,407$230 – $3,430

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,045
Median cash price$1,985
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

268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,767 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,634; most fall between $229 and $3,476.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 268 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
$153$292$1,767$3,356$5,849

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 38× what the cheapest tenth charges ($153 vs $5,849).

Of the 296 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 268 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

441 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 484 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted441
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code484

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 PR Ophthalmological Exam Under General Anesthesia; Complete.

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, “Complete eye exam under anesthesia (CPT 92018) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92018-complete-eye-exam-under-anesthesia