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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Fluorescein dye photos of the retinal blood vessels

CPT 92235the billing code this page is about

A series of photographs of the back of the eye taken as fluorescein dye passes through the retinal blood vessels, with interpretation and report; one eye or both.

Hospitals typically charge $276 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 541 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $308. Most fall between $114 and $639 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
541
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 541 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
$71$128$276$558$824

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($71 vs $824).

How the prices are spread

$47 – $65: 12 hospitals$47$65 – $90: 38 hospitals$90 – $125: 41 hospitals$90$125 – $173: 61 hospitals$173 – $239: 59 hospitals$173$239 – $331: 63 hospitals$331 – $459: 74 hospitals$331$459 – $635: 55 hospitals$635 – $880: 61 hospitals$635$880 – $1,218: 24 hospitals$880median $276price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (488 of 541 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$47$6512
$65$9038
$90$12541
$125$17361
$173$23959
$239$33163
$331$45974
$459$63555
$635$88061
$880$1,21824

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$276
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.25×

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 $276.

Alaska: 3 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $227 across 25 hospitalsMN$227Illinois: median $278 across 27 hospitalsIL$278Wisconsin: median $166 across 36 hospitalsWI$166Michigan: median $297 across 19 hospitalsMI$297New York: median $270 across 44 hospitalsNY$270Massachusetts: median $825 across 11 hospitalsMA$825Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $111 across 16 hospitalsIA$111Indiana: median $1,218 across 18 hospitalsIN$1,218Ohio: median $268 across 19 hospitalsOH$268Pennsylvania: median $312 across 36 hospitalsPA$312New Jersey: median $340 across 17 hospitalsNJ$340Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $767 across 36 hospitalsCA$767Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $602 across 10 hospitalsCO$602Nebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $302 across 11 hospitalsMO$302Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $144 across 12 hospitalsWV$144Virginia: median $337 across 11 hospitalsVA$337Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $82 across 11 hospitalsTN$82North Carolina: 8 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 $69 across 13 hospitalsOK$69Louisiana: median $165 across 18 hospitalsLA$165Mississippi: median $188 across 11 hospitalsMS$188Alabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $194 across 13 hospitalsGA$194Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $549 across 30 hospitalsTX$549Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $276. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Indiana IN18$1,218+341%$114 – $1,646
Massachusetts MA11$825+199%$615 – $1,575
California CA36$767+178%$633 – $767
Colorado CO10$602+118%$325 – $602
Texas TX30$549+99%$239 – $664
New Jersey NJ17$340+23%$178 – $345
Virginia VA11$337+22%$337 – $744
Pennsylvania PA36$312+13%$30 – $661
Missouri MO11$302+9%$71 – $343
Michigan MI19$297+8%$125 – $654
Illinois IL27$278+1%$75 – $528
New York NY44$270−2%$84 – $680
Ohio OH19$268−3%$126 – $430
Minnesota MN25$227−18%$169 – $434
Georgia GA13$194−30%$194 – $296
Mississippi MS11$188−32%$134 – $308
Wisconsin WI36$166−40%$125 – $544
Louisiana LA18$165−40%$109 – $346
West Virginia WV12$144−48%$46 – $356
Iowa IA16$111−60%$111 – $257
Tennessee TN11$82−70%$47 – $255
Oklahoma OK13$69−75%$69 – $623
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $276.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care436$302$114 – $654
Children’s23$468$212 – $1,029
Critical access81$168$114 – $507
Ownership
For-profit35$276$105 – $571
Government71$325$172 – $559
Non-profit434$268$114 – $654
System affiliation
Part of a system451$270$114 – $654
Independent90$302$108 – $623

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$536
Median cash price$276
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

344 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $286 and the average of the middle 60% is $345; most fall between $115 and $664.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 344 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
$76$125$286$639$824

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($76 vs $824).

Of the 366 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 344 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

541 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 573 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted541
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code573

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 Angrph W/Multiframe Img I&R Uni/Bi|PROFESSIONAL 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, “Fluorescein dye photos of the retinal blood vessels (CPT 92235) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92235-fluorescein-dye-photos-of-the-retinal-blood-vessels