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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Contact lens fitting for both eyes

CPT 92310the billing code this page is about

Prescribing and fitting corneal contact lenses for both eyes in a patient who still has the natural lens, including the initial instruction in lens use.

Hospitals typically charge $74 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 214 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $83. Most fall between $39 and $173 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
214
States
39
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 214 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$42$74$136$224

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $224).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $26: 14 hospitals$20$26 – $34: 10 hospitals$34 – $44: 26 hospitals$34$44 – $59: 18 hospitals$59 – $77: 31 hospitals$59$77 – $101: 27 hospitals$101 – $133: 11 hospitals$101$133 – $176: 26 hospitals$176 – $231: 22 hospitals$176$231 – $304: 11 hospitals$231median $74price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (196 of 214 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2614
$26$3410
$34$4426
$44$5918
$59$7731
$77$10127
$101$13311
$133$17626
$176$23122
$231$30411

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $74.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 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 $73 across 21 hospitalsMN$73Illinois: median $54 across 16 hospitalsIL$54Wisconsin: median $212 across 23 hospitalsWI$212Michigan: median $136 across 15 hospitalsMI$136New York: median $108 across 15 hospitalsNY$108Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $224 across 11 hospitalsOH$224Pennsylvania: median $39 across 16 hospitalsPA$39New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $136 across 10 hospitalsOK$136Louisiana: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $74. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH11$224+204%$27 – $304
Wisconsin WI23$212+187%$73 – $212
Michigan MI15$136+84%$60 – $173
Oklahoma OK10$136+84%$136 – $136
New York NY15$108+46%$22 – $304
Minnesota MN21$73−1%$68 – $80
Illinois IL16$54−27%$29 – $86
Pennsylvania PA16$39−48%$30 – $85
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $74.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care161$73$37 – $150
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$80$68 – $212
Ownership
For-profit13fewer than 20 hospitals
Government30$50$28 – $143
Non-profit170$73$40 – $168
System affiliation
Part of a system166$73$40 – $136
Independent48$98$28 – $224

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$143
Median cash price$74
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

150 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $81 and the average of the middle 60% is $91; most fall between $40 and $186.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 150 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
$22$46$81$142$212

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $212).

Of the 165 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 150 gave a usable cash price; 11 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

214 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 251 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted214
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code251

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 5, 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 Rx&Fitg C-Lens Supvj Crnl Lens Ou Xcpt Aphk.

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, “Contact lens fitting for both eyes (CPT 92310) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92310-contact-lens-fitting-for-both-eyes