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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Needle muscle test of the eye muscles

CPT 92265the billing code this page is about

Electrical recording from one or more of the muscles that move the eye using a fine needle, with interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $108 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 322 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $124. Most fall between $67 and $220 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
322
States
42
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 322 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
$51$67$108$201$256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($51 vs $256).

How the prices are spread

$33 – $43: 7 hospitals$33$43 – $55: 14 hospitals$55 – $72: 72 hospitals$55$72 – $93: 42 hospitals$93 – $121: 15 hospitals$93$121 – $156: 21 hospitals$156 – $203: 55 hospitals$156$203 – $263: 48 hospitals$263 – $342: 8 hospitals$263$342 – $443: 9 hospitals$342median $108price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (291 of 322 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$33$437
$43$5514
$55$7272
$72$9342
$93$12115
$121$15621
$156$20355
$203$26348
$263$3428
$342$4439

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$108
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.78×

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 $108.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $85 across 10 hospitalsMN$85Illinois: median $80 across 11 hospitalsIL$80Wisconsin: median $194 across 14 hospitalsWI$194Michigan: median $139 across 32 hospitalsMI$139New 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 $80 across 12 hospitalsIA$80Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $60 across 27 hospitalsPA$60New Jersey: median $68 across 16 hospitalsNJ$68Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $256 across 43 hospitalsCA$256Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 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: 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: 6 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 $67 across 12 hospitalsOK$67Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $67 across 22 hospitalsTX$67Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $108. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA43$256+138%$216 – $256
Wisconsin WI14$194+80%$194 – $194
Michigan MI32$139+29%$81 – $157
Minnesota MN10$85−21%$71 – $85
Iowa IA12$80−26%$80 – $80
Illinois IL11$80−26%$32 – $108
New York NY22$70−35%$70 – $192
New Jersey NJ16$68−37%$66 – $246
Texas TX22$67−38%$67 – $134
Oklahoma OK12$67−38%$67 – $67
Pennsylvania PA27$60−44%$29 – $395
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $108.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care281$100$67 – $225
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access31$157$67 – $194
Ownership
For-profit30$89$52 – $263
Government38$72$56 – $162
Non-profit254$123$67 – $225
System affiliation
Part of a system278$115$67 – $224
Independent44$87$58 – $204

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$241
Median cash price$108
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

215 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $157 and the average of the middle 60% is $143; most fall between $67 and $250.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 215 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
$58$67$157$216$270

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($58 vs $270).

Of the 231 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 215 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 3 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

322 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 334 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted322
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code334

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 PR Eye Muscle Evaluation.

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, “Needle muscle test of the eye muscles (CPT 92265) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92265-needle-muscle-test-of-the-eye-muscles