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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Remote retinal photos screened for eye disease

CPT 92227the billing code this page is about

Photographs of the back of the eye taken locally and reviewed remotely by trained staff to check for signs of retinal disease, with a report; one or both eyes.

Hospitals typically charge $58 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 351 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $29 and $142 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
351
States
37
Filings dated
May 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 351 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
$23$30$58$101$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $181).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $18: 7 hospitals$14$18 – $24: 16 hospitals$24 – $32: 66 hospitals$24$32 – $43: 41 hospitals$43 – $57: 28 hospitals$43$57 – $76: 54 hospitals$76 – $101: 36 hospitals$76$101 – $135: 13 hospitals$135 – $179: 38 hospitals$135$179 – $239: 24 hospitals$179median $58price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (323 of 351 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$187
$18$2416
$24$3266
$32$4341
$43$5728
$57$7654
$76$10136
$101$13513
$135$17938
$179$23924

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$58
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $58.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $20 across 10 hospitalsIL$20Wisconsin: median $34 across 15 hospitalsWI$34Michigan: median $81 across 19 hospitalsMI$81New York: median $70 across 22 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $32 across 13 hospitalsIA$32Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $70 across 13 hospitalsPA$70New Jersey: median $66 across 15 hospitalsNJ$66Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $142 across 41 hospitalsCA$142Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $30 across 22 hospitalsWV$30Virginia: median $38 across 23 hospitalsVA$38Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $25 across 18 hospitalsTN$25North Carolina: 4 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 $28 across 12 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: median $29 across 13 hospitalsLA$29Mississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $76 across 14 hospitalsGA$76Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $57 across 34 hospitalsTX$57Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $58. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA41$142+146%$142 – $152
Michigan MI19$81+41%$29 – $94
Georgia GA14$76+32%$58 – $76
New York NY22$70+22%$42 – $70
Pennsylvania PA13$70+21%$41 – $85
New Jersey NJ15$66+14%$65 – $76
Texas TX34$57−1%$51 – $197
Virginia VA23$38−35%$25 – $81
Wisconsin WI15$34−40%$34 – $34
Iowa IA13$32−44%$32 – $32
West Virginia WV22$30−49%$30 – $45
Louisiana LA13$29−49%$18 – $47
Oklahoma OK12$28−51%$28 – $28
Tennessee TN18$25−57%$19 – $25
Illinois IL10$20−65%$12 – $34
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $58.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care303$63$30 – $142
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access44$34$25 – $95
Ownership
For-profit29$51$28 – $106
Government51$57$28 – $76
Non-profit271$62$30 – $142
System affiliation
Part of a system311$62$30 – $142
Independent40$42$27 – $78

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$111
Median cash price$58
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

244 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $75; most fall between $28 and $152.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 244 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
$25$32$62$142$197

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $197).

Of the 256 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 244 gave a usable cash price; 3 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

351 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 361 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted351
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code361

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 IMG RTA DETCJ/MNTR DS STAFF.

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, “Remote retinal photos screened for eye disease (CPT 92227) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92227-remote-retinal-photos-screened-for-eye-disease