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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Computerized scan of the optic nerve

CPT 92133the billing code this page is about

Imaging of the optic nerve and surrounding nerve fiber layer, often used in glaucoma care, with interpretation and a report; covers one or both eyes.

Hospitals typically charge $81 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 636 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $104. Most fall between $42 and $193 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
636
States
49
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 636 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
$29$48$81$177$283

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $283).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $23: 10 hospitals$17$23 – $31: 52 hospitals$31 – $42: 38 hospitals$31$42 – $58: 52 hospitals$58 – $80: 133 hospitals$58$80 – $109: 50 hospitals$109 – $150: 70 hospitals$109$150 – $205: 96 hospitals$205 – $281: 40 hospitals$205$281 – $385: 34 hospitals$281median $81price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (575 of 636 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2310
$23$3152
$31$4238
$42$5852
$58$80133
$80$10950
$109$15070
$150$20596
$205$28140
$281$38534

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$81
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.34×

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 $81.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 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: median $72 across 10 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $136 across 26 hospitalsMN$136Illinois: median $70 across 28 hospitalsIL$70Wisconsin: median $59 across 41 hospitalsWI$59Michigan: median $81 across 22 hospitalsMI$81New York: median $70 across 51 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: median $182 across 12 hospitalsMA$182Oregon: median $9 across 10 hospitalsOR$9Nevada: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $30 across 16 hospitalsIA$30Indiana: median $413 across 18 hospitalsIN$413Ohio: median $131 across 44 hospitalsOH$131Pennsylvania: median $85 across 38 hospitalsPA$85New Jersey: median $66 across 17 hospitalsNJ$66Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $193 across 57 hospitalsCA$193Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $360 across 12 hospitalsCO$360Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $38 across 10 hospitalsMO$38Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $78 across 15 hospitalsWV$78Virginia: median $93 across 19 hospitalsVA$93Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 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 $36 across 11 hospitalsSC$36Oklahoma: median $25 across 12 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $64 across 18 hospitalsLA$64Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $80 across 10 hospitalsGA$80Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $166 across 43 hospitalsTX$166Florida: median $64 across 10 hospitalsFL$64
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $81. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN18$413+413%$148 – $558
Colorado CO12$360+347%$77 – $360
California CA57$193+139%$122 – $193
Massachusetts MA12$182+126%$145 – $332
Texas TX43$166+106%$122 – $207
Minnesota MN26$136+68%$79 – $145
Ohio OH44$131+62%$45 – $177
Virginia VA19$93+16%$85 – $119
Pennsylvania PA38$85+6%$12 – $360
Michigan MI22$81+1%$46 – $210
Georgia GA10$80−1%$80 – $80
West Virginia WV15$78−3%$18 – $162
Washington WA10$72−11%$45 – $160
New York NY51$70−13%$60 – $192
Illinois IL28$70−13%$18 – $170
New Jersey NJ17$66−18%$44 – $70
Florida FL10$64−20%$54 – $88
Louisiana LA18$64−20%$49 – $122
Wisconsin WI41$59−27%$48 – $74
Missouri MO10$38−53%$29 – $77
South Carolina SC11$36−56%$15 – $137
Iowa IA16$30−63%$30 – $77
Oklahoma OK12$25−70%$25 – $25
Oregon OR10$9−89%$9 – $45
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $81.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care521$81$42 – $193
Children’s25$167$79 – $225
Critical access89$68$30 – $141
Ownership
For-profit45$131$34 – $207
Government86$77$48 – $160
Non-profit504$81$40 – $193
System affiliation
Part of a system542$80$40 – $193
Independent94$81$50 – $209

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$169
Median cash price$81
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

438 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $98 and the average of the middle 60% is $112; most fall between $43 and $193.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 438 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
$30$46$98$187$283

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $283).

Of the 465 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 438 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 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

636 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 675 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted636
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code675

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 Cptrized Oph Dx Img Pst Segment Uni/Bi Optic Nrv.

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, “Computerized scan of the optic nerve (CPT 92133) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92133-computerized-scan-of-the-optic-nerve