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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Computerized scan of the retina

CPT 92134the billing code this page is about

Imaging of the retina at the back of the eye, with interpretation and a report; covers one or both eyes. The hospital label mentions retinal photography, which is billed differently.

Hospitals typically charge $83 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 653 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $101. Most fall between $41 and $186 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
653
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 653 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$47$83$177$222

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $222).

How the prices are spread

$25 – $33: 52 hospitals$25$33 – $43: 62 hospitals$43 – $56: 44 hospitals$43$56 – $73: 93 hospitals$73 – $95: 75 hospitals$73$95 – $124: 58 hospitals$124 – $162: 45 hospitals$124$162 – $211: 123 hospitals$211 – $276: 19 hospitals$211$276 – $360: 24 hospitals$276median $83price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (595 of 653 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$25$3352
$33$4362
$43$5644
$56$7393
$73$9575
$95$12458
$124$16245
$162$211123
$211$27619
$276$36024

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$83
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.38×

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 $83.

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 $110 across 11 hospitalsWA$110Idaho: 7 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 $115 across 24 hospitalsMN$115Illinois: median $90 across 27 hospitalsIL$90Wisconsin: median $48 across 43 hospitalsWI$48Michigan: median $81 across 22 hospitalsMI$81New York: median $70 across 52 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: median $167 across 10 hospitalsMA$167Oregon: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $30 across 16 hospitalsIA$30Indiana: median $124 across 18 hospitalsIN$124Ohio: median $105 across 44 hospitalsOH$105Pennsylvania: median $84 across 35 hospitalsPA$84New Jersey: median $70 across 17 hospitalsNJ$70Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $186 across 59 hospitalsCA$186Utah: 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 $43 across 10 hospitalsMO$43Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $79 across 16 hospitalsWV$79Virginia: median $93 across 19 hospitalsVA$93Maryland: 8 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $19 across 10 hospitalsTN$19North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $33 across 12 hospitalsSC$33Oklahoma: median $25 across 12 hospitalsOK$25Louisiana: median $77 across 20 hospitalsLA$77Mississippi: 6 hospitals 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 16 hospitalsGA$80Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $166 across 43 hospitalsTX$166Florida: median $65 across 10 hospitalsFL$65
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $83. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Colorado CO12$360+332%$83 – $360
California CA59$186+123%$75 – $187
Massachusetts MA10$167+101%$145 – $582
Texas TX43$166+100%$73 – $192
Indiana IN18$124+49%$93 – $176
Minnesota MN24$115+39%$59 – $231
Washington WA11$110+32%$54 – $173
Ohio OH44$105+26%$61 – $177
Virginia VA19$93+12%$39 – $119
Illinois IL27$90+9%$32 – $179
Pennsylvania PA35$84+1%$12 – $188
Michigan MI22$81−3%$38 – $210
Georgia GA16$80−4%$80 – $179
West Virginia WV16$79−5%$31 – $182
Louisiana LA20$77−8%$53 – $106
New York NY52$70−16%$61 – $192
New Jersey NJ17$70−16%$66 – $73
Florida FL10$65−22%$62 – $92
Wisconsin WI43$48−42%$38 – $52
Missouri MO10$43−48%$32 – $77
South Carolina SC12$33−60%$33 – $137
Iowa IA16$30−63%$30 – $78
Oklahoma OK12$25−70%$25 – $25
Tennessee TN10$19−77%$17 – $57
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not 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
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 $83.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care530$89$43 – $186
Children’s25$151$78 – $314
Critical access97$62$32 – $163
Ownership
For-profit44$85$35 – $192
Government90$77$48 – $157
Non-profit518$86$39 – $186
System affiliation
Part of a system553$83$39 – $186
Independent100$84$47 – $194

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$177
Median cash price$83
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

461 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $98 and the average of the middle 60% is $109; most fall between $39 and $187.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 461 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
$31$45$98$186$231

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $231).

Of the 486 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 461 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 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

653 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 692 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted653
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 code692

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 Retina|TECHNICAL 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Computerized scan of the retina (CPT 92134) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92134-computerized-scan-of-the-retina