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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Computerized balance test on a moving platform

CPT 92548the billing code this page is about

A balance assessment in which the patient stands on a movable platform with a movable visual surround while sensors measure sway under six different sensory conditions.

Hospitals typically charge $190 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 410 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $224. Most fall between $84 and $467 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
410
States
42
Filings dated
Jun 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 410 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
$45$100$190$375$610

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($45 vs $610).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $38: 15 hospitals$27$38 – $53: 10 hospitals$53 – $75: 22 hospitals$53$75 – $107: 41 hospitals$107 – $151: 43 hospitals$107$151 – $213: 60 hospitals$213 – $301: 54 hospitals$213$301 – $425: 55 hospitals$425 – $601: 46 hospitals$425$601 – $849: 27 hospitals$601median $190price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (373 of 410 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$3815
$38$5310
$53$7522
$75$10741
$107$15143
$151$21360
$213$30154
$301$42555
$425$60146
$601$84927

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$190
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.40×

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 $190.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $399 across 10 hospitalsWA$399Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $370 across 21 hospitalsMN$370Illinois: median $84 across 16 hospitalsIL$84Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $354 across 15 hospitalsMI$354New York: median $153 across 28 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $84 across 15 hospitalsIA$84Indiana: median $147 across 19 hospitalsIN$147Ohio: median $276 across 16 hospitalsOH$276Pennsylvania: median $24 across 16 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: median $143 across 27 hospitalsNJ$143Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $498 across 43 hospitalsCA$498Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $228 across 19 hospitalsVA$228Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $838 across 15 hospitalsAZ$838New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $44 across 10 hospitalsTN$44North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $67 across 12 hospitalsOK$67Louisiana: median $75 across 10 hospitalsLA$75Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $349 across 15 hospitalsGA$349Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $499 across 21 hospitalsTX$499Florida: median $256 across 11 hospitalsFL$256
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $190. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ15$838+341%$163 – $838
Texas TX21$499+163%$201 – $610
California CA43$498+162%$158 – $498
Washington WA10$399+110%$311 – $399
Minnesota MN21$370+95%$315 – $849
Michigan MI15$354+86%$150 – $354
Georgia GA15$349+84%$336 – $507
Ohio OH16$276+45%$218 – $375
Florida FL11$256+35%$211 – $482
Virginia VA19$228+20%$84 – $252
New York NY28$153−20%$136 – $243
Indiana IN19$147−23%$128 – $240
New Jersey NJ27$143−25%$111 – $172
Iowa IA15$84−56%$84 – $128
Illinois IL16$84−56%$24 – $238
Louisiana LA10$75−60%$45 – $284
Oklahoma OK12$67−65%$67 – $67
Tennessee TN10$44−77%$30 – $242
Pennsylvania PA16$24−87%$20 – $255
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $190.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care358$190$84 – $482
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$122$28 – $354
Ownership
For-profit31$276$34 – $610
Government41$153$84 – $267
Non-profit335$213$84 – $482
System affiliation
Part of a system362$204$80 – $483
Independent48$172$112 – $304

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$420
Median cash price$190
Cash as a share of list, median hospital58%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 42%. 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

289 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $243 and the average of the middle 60% is $269; most fall between $84 and $498.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 289 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
$53$96$243$489$815

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($53 vs $815).

Of the 302 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 289 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

410 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 432 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted410
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code432

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 Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Hp 92548 Cdp-Sot 6 Conditions W/Interpretation & Report.

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, “Computerized balance test on a moving platform (CPT 92548) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92548-computerized-balance-test-on-a-moving-platform