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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Evaluation of voice quality and resonance

CPT 92524the billing code this page is about

A listening-based evaluation of the voice, judging qualities such as pitch, loudness, hoarseness, and nasal resonance.

Hospitals typically charge $256 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,039 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $265. Most fall between $143 and $422 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,039
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 3,039 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
$109$161$256$388$576

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $576).

How the prices are spread

$82 – $102: 113 hospitals$82$102 – $128: 181 hospitals$128 – $160: 311 hospitals$128$160 – $201: 301 hospitals$201 – $251: 420 hospitals$201$251 – $314: 434 hospitals$314 – $393: 401 hospitals$314$393 – $492: 297 hospitals$492 – $615: 176 hospitals$492$615 – $769: 111 hospitals$615median $256price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,745 of 3,039 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$82$102113
$102$128181
$128$160311
$160$201301
$201$251420
$251$314434
$314$393401
$393$492297
$492$615176
$615$769111

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $256.

Alaska: median $534 across 18 hospitalsAK$534Maine: median $144 across 28 hospitalsME$144Vermont: median $320 across 13 hospitalsVT$320New Hampshire: median $251 across 23 hospitalsNH$251Washington: median $277 across 58 hospitalsWA$277Idaho: median $270 across 22 hospitalsID$270Montana: median $244 across 20 hospitalsMT$244North Dakota: median $334 across 23 hospitalsND$334Minnesota: median $283 across 96 hospitalsMN$283Illinois: median $280 across 117 hospitalsIL$280Wisconsin: median $285 across 99 hospitalsWI$285Michigan: median $225 across 91 hospitalsMI$225New York: median $261 across 104 hospitalsNY$261Massachusetts: median $450 across 45 hospitalsMA$450Oregon: median $278 across 52 hospitalsOR$278Nevada: median $273 across 17 hospitalsNV$273Wyoming: median $215 across 10 hospitalsWY$215South Dakota: median $359 across 30 hospitalsSD$359Iowa: median $233 across 85 hospitalsIA$233Indiana: median $165 across 85 hospitalsIN$165Ohio: median $259 across 140 hospitalsOH$259Pennsylvania: median $317 across 117 hospitalsPA$317New Jersey: median $141 across 43 hospitalsNJ$141Connecticut: median $450 across 19 hospitalsCT$450Rhode Island: median $314 across 10 hospitalsRI$314California: median $354 across 170 hospitalsCA$354Utah: median $454 across 33 hospitalsUT$454Colorado: median $273 across 66 hospitalsCO$273Nebraska: median $284 across 76 hospitalsNE$284Missouri: median $159 across 79 hospitalsMO$159Kentucky: median $246 across 58 hospitalsKY$246West Virginia: median $239 across 32 hospitalsWV$239Virginia: median $306 across 68 hospitalsVA$306Maryland: median $259 across 39 hospitalsMD$259Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $157 across 48 hospitalsAZ$157New Mexico: median $327 across 27 hospitalsNM$327Kansas: median $177 across 76 hospitalsKS$177Arkansas: median $171 across 28 hospitalsAR$171Tennessee: median $121 across 67 hospitalsTN$121North Carolina: median $207 across 93 hospitalsNC$207South Carolina: median $339 across 52 hospitalsSC$339Oklahoma: median $179 across 55 hospitalsOK$179Louisiana: median $157 across 49 hospitalsLA$157Mississippi: median $104 across 50 hospitalsMS$104Alabama: median $176 across 37 hospitalsAL$176Georgia: median $213 across 99 hospitalsGA$213Hawaii: median $312 across 18 hospitalsHI$312Texas: median $351 across 190 hospitalsTX$351Florida: median $300 across 158 hospitalsFL$300
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $256. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK18$534+109%$271 – $726
Utah UT33$454+77%$219 – $567
Connecticut CT19$450+76%$196 – $547
Massachusetts MA45$450+76%$321 – $592
South Dakota SD30$359+40%$265 – $464
California CA170$354+38%$225 – $722
Texas TX190$351+37%$206 – $436
South Carolina SC52$339+32%$215 – $362
North Dakota ND23$334+30%$230 – $443
New Mexico NM27$327+28%$185 – $490
Vermont VT13$320+25%$191 – $391
Pennsylvania PA117$317+24%$136 – $435
Rhode Island RI10$314+23%$168 – $559
Hawaii HI18$312+22%$220 – $395
Virginia VA68$306+20%$182 – $410
Florida FL158$300+17%$138 – $861
Wisconsin WI99$285+11%$210 – $428
Nebraska NE76$284+11%$192 – $365
Minnesota MN96$283+11%$229 – $381
Illinois IL117$280+9%$164 – $527
Oregon OR52$278+8%$188 – $395
Washington WA58$277+8%$149 – $389
Colorado CO66$273+7%$153 – $379
Nevada NV17$273+7%$139 – $493
Idaho ID22$270+5%$204 – $314
New York NY104$261+2%$121 – $416
Maryland MD39$259+1%$198 – $353
Ohio OH140$259+1%$147 – $354
New Hampshire NH23$251−2%$128 – $576
Kentucky KY58$246−4%$157 – $438
Montana MT20$244−5%$175 – $318
West Virginia WV32$239−7%$141 – $400
Iowa IA85$233−9%$158 – $298
Michigan MI91$225−12%$133 – $367
Wyoming WY10$215−16%$115 – $279
Georgia GA99$213−17%$145 – $286
North Carolina NC93$207−19%$155 – $321
Oklahoma OK55$179−30%$77 – $231
Kansas KS76$177−31%$123 – $360
Alabama AL37$176−31%$104 – $244
Arkansas AR28$171−33%$57 – $240
Indiana IN85$165−36%$119 – $236
Missouri MO79$159−38%$124 – $316
Arizona AZ48$157−39%$106 – $594
Louisiana LA49$157−39%$86 – $263
Maine ME28$144−44%$93 – $337
New Jersey NJ43$141−45%$120 – $410
Tennessee TN67$121−53%$72 – $271
Mississippi MS50$104−59%$72 – $188
Delaware DE6not 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 $256.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,159$254$138 – $442
Children’s70$285$160 – $554
Critical access800$263$160 – $390
Ownership
For-profit375$314$160 – $875
Government547$231$138 – $342
Non-profit2,107$260$143 – $413
System affiliation
Part of a system2,485$262$144 – $433
Independent554$234$143 – $366

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$426
Median cash price$256
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

2,101 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $262 and the average of the middle 60% is $270; most fall between $147 and $413.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,101 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
$110$167$262$384$545

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($110 vs $545).

Of the 2,223 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,101 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 97 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,039 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,210 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,039
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded125
Hospitals that filed this code3,210

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 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 Behavioral & Qualit Analysis Voice and Resonance.

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, “Evaluation of voice quality and resonance (CPT 92524) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92524-evaluation-of-voice-quality-and-resonance