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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Limited visual field test

CPT 92081the billing code this page is about

A basic test of side and central vision in one or both eyes, with interpretation and a report; the simplest of the three visual field test levels.

Hospitals typically charge $73 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 547 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $85. Most fall between $37 and $167 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
547
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 547 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
$24$46$73$146$223

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $223).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $20: 19 hospitals$15$20 – $27: 33 hospitals$27 – $36: 27 hospitals$27$36 – $48: 45 hospitals$48 – $65: 65 hospitals$48$65 – $86: 97 hospitals$86 – $115: 52 hospitals$86$115 – $154: 62 hospitals$154 – $206: 44 hospitals$154$206 – $275: 51 hospitals$206median $73price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (495 of 547 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$2019
$20$2733
$27$3627
$36$4845
$48$6565
$65$8697
$86$11552
$115$15462
$154$20644
$206$27551

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$73
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $73.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $72 across 21 hospitalsMN$72Illinois: median $70 across 23 hospitalsIL$70Wisconsin: median $56 across 45 hospitalsWI$56Michigan: median $78 across 24 hospitalsMI$78New York: median $74 across 41 hospitalsNY$74Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $48 across 14 hospitalsOR$48Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $39 across 15 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $97 across 27 hospitalsOH$97Pennsylvania: median $92 across 28 hospitalsPA$92New Jersey: median $70 across 23 hospitalsNJ$70Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $183 across 58 hospitalsCA$183Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $69 across 12 hospitalsMO$69Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $56 across 20 hospitalsWV$56Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $27 across 12 hospitalsOK$27Louisiana: median $40 across 22 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $73 across 11 hospitalsGA$73Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $170 across 24 hospitalsTX$170Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $73. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA58$183+150%$118 – $223
Texas TX24$170+132%$47 – $183
Ohio OH27$97+32%$62 – $145
Pennsylvania PA28$92+26%$10 – $265
Michigan MI24$78+7%$52 – $142
New York NY41$740%$70 – $212
Georgia GA11$730%$73 – $73
Minnesota MN21$72−2%$72 – $235
Illinois IL23$70−5%$29 – $102
New Jersey NJ23$70−5%$65 – $3,113
Missouri MO12$69−5%$26 – $77
Wisconsin WI45$56−24%$52 – $142
West Virginia WV20$56−24%$18 – $126
Oregon OR14$48−34%$11 – $63
Louisiana LA22$40−46%$24 – $91
Iowa IA15$39−47%$39 – $56
Oklahoma OK12$27−64%$27 – $27
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $73.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care431$73$39 – $176
Children’s20$76$27 – $211
Critical access95$68$36 – $114
Ownership
For-profit37$85$37 – $183
Government82$72$42 – $153
Non-profit427$72$37 – $170
System affiliation
Part of a system442$72$39 – $165
Independent105$78$36 – $183

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$132
Median cash price$73
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

335 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $77 and the average of the middle 60% is $91; most fall between $39 and $179.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 335 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
$27$46$77$153$223

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $223).

Of the 353 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 335 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

547 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 570 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted547
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code570

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 Limited Visual Field Xm Uni/Bi I&R|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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Limited visual field test (CPT 92081) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92081-limited-visual-field-test