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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Retinal photos with automatic computer analysis

CPT 92229the billing code this page is about

Photographs of the back of the eye taken in the office and analyzed immediately by software that screens for retinal disease; covers one or both eyes.

Hospitals typically charge $86 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 254 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $99. Most fall between $67 and $147 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
254
States
36
Filings dated
Mar 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 254 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$67$86$147$180

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $180).

How the prices are spread

$43 – $51: 7 hospitals$43$51 – $61: 18 hospitals$61 – $73: 65 hospitals$61$73 – $87: 27 hospitals$87 – $103: 7 hospitals$87$103 – $123: 28 hospitals$123 – $147: 41 hospitals$123$147 – $175: 13 hospitals$175 – $209: 15 hospitals$175$209 – $249: 9 hospitals$209median $86price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (230 of 254 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$43$517
$51$6118
$61$7365
$73$8727
$87$1037
$103$12328
$123$14741
$147$17513
$175$20915
$209$2499

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$86
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

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 $86.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $106 across 10 hospitalsIL$106Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $81 across 10 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $120 across 13 hospitalsIA$120Indiana: median $178 across 13 hospitalsIN$178Ohio: median $71 across 15 hospitalsOH$71Pennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $66 across 11 hospitalsNJ$66Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $147 across 38 hospitalsCA$147Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $57 across 19 hospitalsWV$57Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $67 across 29 hospitalsTX$67Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $86. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN13$178+107%$154 – $240
California CA38$147+71%$137 – $147
Iowa IA13$120+40%$120 – $120
Illinois IL10$106+24%$54 – $180
Michigan MI10$81−5%$72 – $166
Ohio OH15$71−17%$71 – $71
New York NY22$70−18%$70 – $76
Texas TX29$67−22%$67 – $86
New Jersey NJ11$66−23%$66 – $70
West Virginia WV19$57−33%$30 – $68
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $86.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care222$85$67 – $147
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access29$112$57 – $195
Ownership
For-profit20$80$67 – $170
Government29$70$49 – $178
Non-profit205$91$67 – $147
System affiliation
Part of a system225$86$67 – $147
Independent29$88$60 – $178

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$150
Median cash price$86
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

156 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $112 and the average of the middle 60% is $105; most fall between $67 and $147.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 156 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
$59$67$112$147$180

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($59 vs $180).

Of the 162 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 156 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

254 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 259 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted254
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 code259

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 DETC/MNTR DS POC ALY.

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, “Retinal photos with automatic computer analysis (CPT 92229) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92229-retinal-photos-with-automatic-computer-analysis