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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Eye exam of retinal vessels using fluorescein dye

CPT 92230the billing code this page is about

Direct viewing of the retinal blood vessels after fluorescein dye is given, with a written interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $252 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 301 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $322. Most fall between $86 and $593 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
301
States
44
Filings dated
Dec 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 301 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
$56$98$252$580$857

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $857).

How the prices are spread

$38 – $53: 11 hospitals$38$53 – $74: 31 hospitals$74 – $103: 23 hospitals$74$103 – $145: 30 hospitals$145 – $202: 22 hospitals$145$202 – $283: 23 hospitals$283 – $396: 23 hospitals$283$396 – $553: 24 hospitals$553 – $774: 67 hospitals$553$774 – $1,082: 19 hospitals$774median $252price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (273 of 301 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$38$5311
$53$7431
$74$10323
$103$14530
$145$20222
$202$28323
$283$39623
$396$55324
$553$77467
$774$1,08219

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$381
Median cash price$252
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.66×

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 $252.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $759 across 11 hospitalsMN$759Illinois: median $56 across 10 hospitalsIL$56Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $122 across 23 hospitalsMI$122New York: median $466 across 30 hospitalsNY$466Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $242 across 13 hospitalsIA$242Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $21 across 13 hospitalsPA$21New Jersey: median $587 across 10 hospitalsNJ$587Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $577 across 25 hospitalsCA$577Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $593 across 10 hospitalsVA$593Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $57 across 14 hospitalsOK$57Louisiana: median $190 across 12 hospitalsLA$190Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $389 across 21 hospitalsTX$389Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $252. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN11$759+201%$578 – $759
Virginia VA10$593+135%$593 – $593
New Jersey NJ10$587+133%$580 – $588
California CA25$577+128%$577 – $577
New York NY30$466+85%$185 – $628
Texas TX21$389+54%$389 – $389
Iowa IA13$242−4%$242 – $242
Louisiana LA12$190−25%$160 – $416
Michigan MI23$122−52%$98 – $259
Oklahoma OK14$57−78%$57 – $801
Illinois IL10$56−78%$56 – $142
Pennsylvania PA13$21−92%$19 – $159
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $252.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care242$389$89 – $593
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$122$76 – $647
Ownership
For-profit25$341$56 – $538
Government44$205$94 – $628
Non-profit232$259$88 – $593
System affiliation
Part of a system246$252$83 – $593
Independent55$220$91 – $712

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$359
Median cash price$252
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

171 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $297 and the average of the middle 60% is $343; most fall between $83 and $593.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 171 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$98$297$577$944

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $944).

Of the 191 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 171 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 3 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

301 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 322 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted301
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code322

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 Fluorescein Angioscopy Interpretation & Report.

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, “Eye exam of retinal vessels using fluorescein dye (CPT 92230) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92230-eye-exam-of-retinal-vessels-using-fluorescein-dye