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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Eye-movement check for dizziness, including gaze

CPT 92531the billing code this page is about

Bedside observation of involuntary eye movements, including while looking in different directions, without electronic recording.

Hospitals typically charge $53 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 125 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $111. Most fall between $26 and $326 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
125
States
22
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 125 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$29$53$220$681

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $681).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $29: 40 hospitals$20$29 – $41: 2 hospitals$41 – $58: 23 hospitals$41$58 – $82: 2 hospitals$82 – $117: 2 hospitals$82$117 – $166: 7 hospitals$166 – $237: 15 hospitals$166$237 – $337: 14 hospitals$337 – $479: 1 hospitals$337$479 – $681: 12 hospitals$479median $53price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (118 of 125 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2940
$29$412
$41$5823
$58$822
$82$1172
$117$1667
$166$23715
$237$33714
$337$4791
$479$68112

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $53.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $26 across 13 hospitalsMI$26New York: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $53 across 12 hospitalsIA$53Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: median $220 across 29 hospitalsOH$220Pennsylvania: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $29 across 33 hospitalsCA$29Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $53. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH29$220+316%$177 – $681
Iowa IA12$530%$53 – $53
California CA33$29−46%$29 – $326
Michigan MI13$26−51%$26 – $26
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $53.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care115$53$28 – $326
Critical access8fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit4fewer than 20 hospitals
Government9fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit110$53$28 – $326
System affiliation
Part of a system107$53$29 – $326
Independent18fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$138
Median cash price$53
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

107 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $54 and the average of the middle 60% is $125; most fall between $29 and $326.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 107 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
$28$29$54$326$681

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($28 vs $681).

Of the 110 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 107 gave a usable cash price; 0 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

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

What the 152 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted125
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code152

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 SPONTANEOUS NYSTAGMUS STUDY.

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, “Eye-movement check for dizziness, including gaze (CPT 92531) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92531-eye-movement-check-for-dizziness-including-gaze