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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Contact lens fitting for keratoconus, first fitting

CPT 92072the billing code this page is about

The initial fitting and follow-up adjustment of specialty contact lenses for an eye with keratoconus, a cone-shaped distortion of the cornea; billed per eye.

Hospitals typically charge $127 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 266 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $164. Most fall between $74 and $351 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
266
States
35
Filings dated
Dec 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 266 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$89$127$270$448

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $448).

How the prices are spread

$43 – $55: 10 hospitals$43$55 – $70: 30 hospitals$70 – $89: 12 hospitals$70$89 – $112: 32 hospitals$112 – $142: 47 hospitals$112$142 – $180: 17 hospitals$180 – $228: 19 hospitals$180$228 – $289: 25 hospitals$289 – $367: 12 hospitals$289$367 – $465: 37 hospitals$367median $127price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (241 of 266 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$43$5510
$55$7030
$70$8912
$89$11232
$112$14247
$142$18017
$180$22819
$228$28925
$289$36712
$367$46537

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $127.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $444 across 13 hospitalsMN$444Illinois: median $125 across 16 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: median $105 across 21 hospitalsWI$105Michigan: median $105 across 10 hospitalsMI$105New York: median $122 across 10 hospitalsNY$122Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 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 $270 across 13 hospitalsIA$270Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $59 across 11 hospitalsPA$59New Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $448 across 23 hospitalsCA$448Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $94 across 11 hospitalsWV$94Virginia: median $127 across 11 hospitalsVA$127Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $155 across 10 hospitalsOK$155Louisiana: median $62 across 10 hospitalsLA$62Mississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $57 across 20 hospitalsTX$57Florida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $127. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA23$448+253%$448 – $448
Minnesota MN13$444+250%$131 – $444
Iowa IA13$270+113%$270 – $270
Oklahoma OK10$155+22%$155 – $155
Virginia VA11$1270%$22 – $127
Illinois IL16$125−2%$45 – $452
New York NY10$122−4%$111 – $420
Wisconsin WI21$105−17%$105 – $351
Michigan MI10$105−17%$91 – $182
West Virginia WV11$94−26%$86 – $133
Louisiana LA10$62−51%$43 – $89
Pennsylvania PA11$59−53%$55 – $67
Texas TX20$57−55%$57 – $91
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $127.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care209$127$62 – $338
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$125$86 – $358
Ownership
For-profit13fewer than 20 hospitals
Government38$103$45 – $256
Non-profit215$138$74 – $358
System affiliation
Part of a system224$130$74 – $358
Independent42$114$55 – $269

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$269
Median cash price$127
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

181 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $142 and the average of the middle 60% is $174; most fall between $91 and $371.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 181 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$105$142$270$448

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $448).

Of the 198 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 181 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 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

266 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 281 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted266
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here11
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code281

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 Fitting Contact Lens for Mgmt of Keratoconus 1st.

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, “Contact lens fitting for keratoconus, first fitting (CPT 92072) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92072-contact-lens-fitting-for-keratoconus-first-fitting