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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx

Swallowing or feeding therapy session

CPT 92526the billing code this page is about

Treatment for difficulty swallowing or for oral feeding problems; this code bills one therapy session, not a full course of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $203 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,313 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $208. Most fall between $115 and $336 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,313
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 3,313 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
$86$127$203$300$442

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $442).

How the prices are spread

$64 – $79: 78 hospitals$64$79 – $98: 222 hospitals$98 – $122: 314 hospitals$98$122 – $151: 326 hospitals$151 – $188: 389 hospitals$151$188 – $233: 504 hospitals$233 – $289: 381 hospitals$233$289 – $358: 362 hospitals$358 – $445: 250 hospitals$358$445 – $552: 159 hospitals$445median $203price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,985 of 3,313 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$64$7978
$79$98222
$98$122314
$122$151326
$151$188389
$188$233504
$233$289381
$289$358362
$358$445250
$445$552159

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $203.

Alaska: median $378 across 18 hospitalsAK$378Maine: median $164 across 27 hospitalsME$164Vermont: median $238 across 14 hospitalsVT$238New Hampshire: median $197 across 23 hospitalsNH$197Washington: median $226 across 65 hospitalsWA$226Idaho: median $209 across 24 hospitalsID$209Montana: median $214 across 27 hospitalsMT$214North Dakota: median $283 across 24 hospitalsND$283Minnesota: median $224 across 103 hospitalsMN$224Illinois: median $231 across 131 hospitalsIL$231Wisconsin: median $255 across 101 hospitalsWI$255Michigan: median $201 across 96 hospitalsMI$201New York: median $193 across 113 hospitalsNY$193Massachusetts: median $292 across 50 hospitalsMA$292Oregon: median $254 across 54 hospitalsOR$254Nevada: median $176 across 19 hospitalsNV$176Wyoming: median $189 across 13 hospitalsWY$189South Dakota: median $293 across 39 hospitalsSD$293Iowa: median $199 across 93 hospitalsIA$199Indiana: median $131 across 92 hospitalsIN$131Ohio: median $214 across 140 hospitalsOH$214Pennsylvania: median $223 across 123 hospitalsPA$223New Jersey: median $107 across 45 hospitalsNJ$107Connecticut: median $350 across 21 hospitalsCT$350Rhode Island: median $283 across 10 hospitalsRI$283California: median $291 across 190 hospitalsCA$291Utah: median $289 across 39 hospitalsUT$289Colorado: median $235 across 72 hospitalsCO$235Nebraska: median $264 across 82 hospitalsNE$264Missouri: median $130 across 82 hospitalsMO$130Kentucky: median $177 across 70 hospitalsKY$177West Virginia: median $143 across 39 hospitalsWV$143Virginia: median $184 across 71 hospitalsVA$184Maryland: median $238 across 41 hospitalsMD$238Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $156 across 50 hospitalsAZ$156New Mexico: median $215 across 30 hospitalsNM$215Kansas: median $130 across 88 hospitalsKS$130Arkansas: median $124 across 31 hospitalsAR$124Tennessee: median $121 across 79 hospitalsTN$121North Carolina: median $168 across 95 hospitalsNC$168South Carolina: median $211 across 52 hospitalsSC$211Oklahoma: median $111 across 67 hospitalsOK$111Louisiana: median $117 across 52 hospitalsLA$117Mississippi: median $120 across 58 hospitalsMS$120Alabama: median $125 across 41 hospitalsAL$125Georgia: median $141 across 107 hospitalsGA$141Hawaii: median $256 across 18 hospitalsHI$256Texas: median $185 across 225 hospitalsTX$185Florida: median $369 across 162 hospitalsFL$369
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $203. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK18$378+87%$149 – $637
Florida FL162$369+82%$162 – $641
Connecticut CT21$350+73%$181 – $408
South Dakota SD39$293+44%$252 – $376
Massachusetts MA50$292+44%$201 – $375
California CA190$291+44%$144 – $508
Utah UT39$289+42%$204 – $366
North Dakota ND24$283+40%$248 – $343
Rhode Island RI10$283+39%$111 – $490
Nebraska NE82$264+30%$190 – $333
Hawaii HI18$256+26%$221 – $346
Wisconsin WI101$255+26%$169 – $359
Oregon OR54$254+25%$146 – $350
Vermont VT14$238+18%$137 – $302
Maryland MD41$238+17%$167 – $297
Colorado CO72$235+16%$145 – $305
Illinois IL131$231+14%$101 – $348
Washington WA65$226+12%$154 – $330
Minnesota MN103$224+11%$171 – $284
Pennsylvania PA123$223+10%$113 – $425
New Mexico NM30$215+6%$130 – $279
Montana MT27$214+5%$151 – $247
Ohio OH140$214+5%$128 – $416
South Carolina SC52$211+4%$135 – $300
Idaho ID24$209+3%$167 – $301
Michigan MI96$201−1%$122 – $272
Iowa IA93$199−2%$152 – $264
New Hampshire NH23$197−3%$85 – $358
New York NY113$193−5%$94 – $329
Wyoming WY13$189−7%$121 – $217
Texas TX225$185−9%$116 – $332
Virginia VA71$184−9%$120 – $271
Kentucky KY70$177−13%$106 – $266
Nevada NV19$176−13%$84 – $435
North Carolina NC95$168−17%$116 – $224
Maine ME27$164−19%$76 – $269
Arizona AZ50$156−23%$53 – $398
West Virginia WV39$143−30%$109 – $232
Georgia GA107$141−31%$108 – $263
Indiana IN92$131−35%$66 – $227
Kansas KS88$130−36%$92 – $210
Missouri MO82$130−36%$102 – $229
Alabama AL41$125−38%$77 – $234
Arkansas AR31$124−39%$72 – $178
Tennessee TN79$121−41%$82 – $217
Mississippi MS58$120−41%$64 – $181
Louisiana LA52$117−42%$71 – $207
Oklahoma OK67$111−45%$87 – $176
New Jersey NJ45$107−47%$102 – $372
Delaware DE7not 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 $203.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,323$200$111 – $347
Children’s73$249$138 – $511
Critical access907$209$121 – $312
Ownership
For-profit453$236$120 – $531
Government613$189$107 – $291
Non-profit2,237$205$116 – $321
System affiliation
Part of a system2,699$209$116 – $344
Independent614$185$107 – $302

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$342
Median cash price$203
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

2,271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $209 and the average of the middle 60% is $210; most fall between $118 and $321.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,271 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
$89$130$209$298$416

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $416).

Of the 2,401 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,271 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 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,313 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (84%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,500 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,313
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
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 — excluded139
Hospitals that filed this code3,500

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 Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Tx Swallowing Dysfunction&/Oral Funcj Feeding.

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, “Swallowing or feeding therapy session (CPT 92526) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92526-swallowing-or-feeding-therapy-session