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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx

Ear, nose and throat exam under general anesthesia

CPT 92502the billing code this page is about

Examination of the ear, nose and throat while the patient is asleep under general anesthesia, used when an awake exam is not possible or complete.

Hospitals typically charge $494 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 549 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $509. Most fall between $179 and $1,423 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
549
States
47
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 549 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
$124$210$494$878$2,252

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($124 vs $2,252).

How the prices are spread

$92 – $132: 34 hospitals$92$132 – $189: 65 hospitals$189 – $270: 70 hospitals$189$270 – $386: 49 hospitals$386 – $552: 52 hospitals$386$552 – $790: 93 hospitals$790 – $1,130: 36 hospitals$790$1,130 – $1,615: 45 hospitals$1,615 – $2,310: 28 hospitals$1,615$2,310 – $3,303: 23 hospitals$2,310median $494price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (495 of 549 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$92$13234
$132$18965
$189$27070
$270$38649
$386$55252
$552$79093
$790$1,13036
$1,130$1,61545
$1,615$2,31028
$2,310$3,30323

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$551
Median cash price$494
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $494.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $491 across 27 hospitalsMN$491Illinois: median $161 across 16 hospitalsIL$161Wisconsin: median $714 across 39 hospitalsWI$714Michigan: median $213 across 33 hospitalsMI$213New York: median $603 across 34 hospitalsNY$603Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $194 across 14 hospitalsOR$194Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $210 across 25 hospitalsIA$210Indiana: median $92 across 10 hospitalsIN$92Ohio: median $579 across 28 hospitalsOH$579Pennsylvania: median $229 across 27 hospitalsPA$229New Jersey: median $564 across 14 hospitalsNJ$564Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,450 across 49 hospitalsCA$1,450Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $150 across 13 hospitalsMO$150Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $377 across 10 hospitalsTN$377North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $790 across 13 hospitalsSC$790Oklahoma: median $179 across 14 hospitalsOK$179Louisiana: median $773 across 11 hospitalsLA$773Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $851 across 32 hospitalsTX$851Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $494. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA49$1,450+194%$576 – $2,252
Texas TX32$851+72%$774 – $2,220
South Carolina SC13$790+60%$630 – $790
Louisiana LA11$773+57%$255 – $4,011
Wisconsin WI39$714+44%$494 – $727
New York NY34$603+22%$270 – $673
Ohio OH28$579+17%$236 – $1,513
New Jersey NJ14$564+14%$557 – $1,472
Minnesota MN27$491−1%$230 – $610
Tennessee TN10$377−24%$89 – $1,203
Pennsylvania PA27$229−54%$61 – $791
Michigan MI33$213−57%$213 – $742
Iowa IA25$210−57%$210 – $285
Oregon OR14$194−61%$174 – $253
Oklahoma OK14$179−64%$179 – $1,038
Illinois IL16$161−67%$92 – $278
Missouri MO13$150−70%$133 – $1,013
Indiana IN10$92−81%$75 – $105
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $494.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care410$494$179 – $1,423
Children’s35$1,704$284 – $2,727
Critical access102$274$175 – $714
Ownership
For-profit59$778$185 – $2,545
Government81$278$161 – $716
Non-profit407$494$179 – $1,169
System affiliation
Part of a system438$494$179 – $1,431
Independent111$280$161 – $1,133

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$604
Median cash price$494
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

333 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $373 and the average of the middle 60% is $478; most fall between $174 and $1,423.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 333 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
$112$180$373$851$1,875

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($112 vs $1,875).

Of the 353 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 333 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

549 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 589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted549
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code589

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 Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Ear and Throat Examination.

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, “Ear, nose and throat exam under general anesthesia (CPT 92502) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92502-ear-nose-and-throat-exam-under-general-anesthesia