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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Eardrum pressure test with reflex threshold measurement

CPT 92550the billing code this page is about

A combined middle-ear test that measures how the eardrum moves under changing air pressure and the softest sound level that triggers the ear's protective muscle reflex.

Hospitals typically charge $142 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 924 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $151. Most fall between $57 and $285 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
924
States
50
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 924 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
$36$73$142$244$407

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $407).

How the prices are spread

$28 – $37: 50 hospitals$28$37 – $49: 42 hospitals$49 – $66: 79 hospitals$49$66 – $89: 66 hospitals$89 – $118: 90 hospitals$89$118 – $159: 127 hospitals$159 – $212: 147 hospitals$159$212 – $284: 92 hospitals$284 – $381: 74 hospitals$284$381 – $510: 78 hospitals$381median $142price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (845 of 924 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$28$3750
$37$4942
$49$6679
$66$8966
$89$11890
$118$159127
$159$212147
$212$28492
$284$38174
$381$51078

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$142
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.64×

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 $142.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $149 across 12 hospitalsWA$149Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $141 across 26 hospitalsMN$141Illinois: median $117 across 50 hospitalsIL$117Wisconsin: median $120 across 46 hospitalsWI$120Michigan: median $122 across 38 hospitalsMI$122New York: median $185 across 59 hospitalsNY$185Massachusetts: median $211 across 17 hospitalsMA$211Oregon: median $51 across 20 hospitalsOR$51Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 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 $50 across 19 hospitalsIA$50Indiana: median $81 across 47 hospitalsIN$81Ohio: median $220 across 55 hospitalsOH$220Pennsylvania: median $212 across 40 hospitalsPA$212New Jersey: median $184 across 36 hospitalsNJ$184Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $276 across 68 hospitalsCA$276Utah: median $157 across 10 hospitalsUT$157Colorado: median $110 across 10 hospitalsCO$110Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $124 across 19 hospitalsMO$124Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $205 across 12 hospitalsWV$205Virginia: median $50 across 13 hospitalsVA$50Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $436 across 14 hospitalsAZ$436New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $54 across 16 hospitalsTN$54North Carolina: median $113 across 31 hospitalsNC$113South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $35 across 13 hospitalsOK$35Louisiana: median $70 across 17 hospitalsLA$70Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $208 across 13 hospitalsAL$208Georgia: median $185 across 30 hospitalsGA$185Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $169 across 34 hospitalsTX$169Florida: median $251 across 38 hospitalsFL$251
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $142. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ14$436+207%$98 – $436
California CA68$276+94%$169 – $510
Florida FL38$251+77%$105 – $324
Ohio OH55$220+55%$141 – $407
Pennsylvania PA40$212+49%$130 – $255
Massachusetts MA17$211+48%$186 – $314
Alabama AL13$208+46%$121 – $220
West Virginia WV12$205+44%$159 – $444
New York NY59$185+30%$82 – $349
Georgia GA30$185+30%$122 – $313
New Jersey NJ36$184+30%$111 – $361
Texas TX34$169+19%$113 – $227
Utah UT10$157+11%$71 – $177
Washington WA12$149+5%$29 – $278
Minnesota MN26$141−1%$52 – $145
Missouri MO19$124−13%$36 – $219
Michigan MI38$122−14%$103 – $227
Wisconsin WI46$120−16%$43 – $126
Illinois IL50$117−18%$50 – $209
North Carolina NC31$113−21%$88 – $166
Colorado CO10$110−22%$110 – $231
Indiana IN47$81−43%$52 – $254
Louisiana LA17$70−51%$45 – $152
Tennessee TN16$54−62%$15 – $100
Oregon OR20$51−64%$40 – $242
Virginia VA13$50−65%$15 – $136
Iowa IA19$50−65%$50 – $121
Oklahoma OK13$35−75%$35 – $106
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $142.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care725$157$61 – $297
Children’s48$173$115 – $313
Critical access146$110$45 – $188
Ownership
For-profit56$155$51 – $406
Government137$140$65 – $220
Non-profit726$143$55 – $286
System affiliation
Part of a system779$142$56 – $285
Independent145$157$60 – $279

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$238
Median cash price$142
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

651 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $145 and the average of the middle 60% is $156; most fall between $54 and $299.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 651 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
$35$71$145$255$435

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $435).

Of the 679 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 651 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

924 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 966 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted924
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code966

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 Tympanometry and Reflex Threshold Measurements.

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, “Eardrum pressure test with reflex threshold measurement (CPT 92550) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92550-eardrum-pressure-test-with-reflex-threshold-measurement