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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Basic balance test battery with eye-movement recording

CPT 92540the billing code this page is about

A set of four recorded eye-movement tests done together to assess dizziness: resting and gaze nystagmus, positional testing, moving-target tracking, and smooth pursuit.

Hospitals typically charge $302 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 785 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $317. Most fall between $139 and $593 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
785
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 785 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
$82$173$302$535$1,011

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $1,011).

How the prices are spread

$49 – $69: 28 hospitals$49$69 – $96: 34 hospitals$96 – $135: 56 hospitals$96$135 – $190: 91 hospitals$190 – $266: 96 hospitals$190$266 – $373: 149 hospitals$373 – $523: 89 hospitals$373$523 – $734: 77 hospitals$734 – $1,030: 49 hospitals$734$1,030 – $1,445: 47 hospitals$1,030median $302price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (716 of 785 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$49$6928
$69$9634
$96$13556
$135$19091
$190$26696
$266$373149
$373$52389
$523$73477
$734$1,03049
$1,030$1,44547

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$302
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.37×

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 $302.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $495 across 20 hospitalsMN$495Illinois: median $280 across 37 hospitalsIL$280Wisconsin: median $322 across 42 hospitalsWI$322Michigan: median $322 across 46 hospitalsMI$322New York: median $185 across 58 hospitalsNY$185Massachusetts: median $733 across 18 hospitalsMA$733Oregon: median $209 across 12 hospitalsOR$209Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $58 across 19 hospitalsIA$58Indiana: median $311 across 34 hospitalsIN$311Ohio: median $407 across 54 hospitalsOH$407Pennsylvania: median $255 across 46 hospitalsPA$255New Jersey: median $216 across 35 hospitalsNJ$216Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,445 across 41 hospitalsCA$1,445Utah: median $593 across 14 hospitalsUT$593Colorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $149 across 10 hospitalsMO$149Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $285 across 22 hospitalsVA$285Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $265 across 19 hospitalsAZ$265New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $286 across 21 hospitalsNC$286South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $44 across 13 hospitalsOK$44Louisiana: median $161 across 16 hospitalsLA$161Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $592 across 31 hospitalsGA$592Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $538 across 33 hospitalsTX$538Florida: median $509 across 19 hospitalsFL$509
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $302. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA41$1,445+379%$351 – $1,445
Massachusetts MA18$733+143%$310 – $1,151
Utah UT14$593+97%$475 – $593
Georgia GA31$592+96%$187 – $1,201
Texas TX33$538+78%$88 – $712
Florida FL19$509+69%$49 – $981
Minnesota MN20$495+64%$239 – $857
Ohio OH54$407+35%$281 – $998
Michigan MI46$322+7%$82 – $597
Wisconsin WI42$322+7%$159 – $349
Indiana IN34$311+3%$255 – $442
North Carolina NC21$286−5%$262 – $312
Virginia VA22$285−6%$174 – $325
Illinois IL37$280−7%$154 – $630
Arizona AZ19$265−12%$147 – $2,011
Pennsylvania PA46$255−15%$60 – $474
New Jersey NJ35$216−28%$173 – $418
Oregon OR12$209−31%$209 – $427
New York NY58$185−39%$130 – $371
Louisiana LA16$161−47%$114 – $308
Missouri MO10$149−51%$117 – $346
Iowa IA19$58−81%$58 – $392
Oklahoma OK13$44−85%$44 – $192
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $302.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care652$297$147 – $646
Children’s21$494$309 – $892
Critical access109$280$112 – $422
Ownership
For-profit51$311$115 – $1,196
Government95$262$145 – $391
Non-profit636$311$140 – $597
System affiliation
Part of a system679$310$140 – $625
Independent106$258$132 – $411

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$562
Median cash price$302
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

567 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $322 and the average of the middle 60% is $371; most fall between $159 and $774.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 567 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
$75$187$322$597$1,325

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $1,325).

Of the 585 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 567 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

785 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 811 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted785
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code811

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.

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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, “Basic balance test battery with eye-movement recording (CPT 92540) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92540-basic-balance-test-battery-with-eye-movement-recording