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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Hearing threshold test with tones through headphones

CPT 92552the billing code this page is about

Measures the softest tone the patient can hear at each pitch using sound delivered through headphones (air conduction) only.

Hospitals typically charge $107 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,374 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $110. Most fall between $53 and $190 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,374
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 1,374 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$59$107$170$308

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $308).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $32: 52 hospitals$24$32 – $42: 71 hospitals$42 – $56: 132 hospitals$42$56 – $75: 171 hospitals$75 – $99: 155 hospitals$75$99 – $132: 193 hospitals$132 – $176: 218 hospitals$132$176 – $234: 118 hospitals$234 – $312: 69 hospitals$234$312 – $415: 73 hospitals$312median $107price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,252 of 1,374 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$3252
$32$4271
$42$56132
$56$75171
$75$99155
$99$132193
$132$176218
$176$234118
$234$31269
$312$41573

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$107
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.78×

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 $107.

Alaska: median $132 across 12 hospitalsAK$132Maine: median $59 across 13 hospitalsME$59Vermont: median $67 across 11 hospitalsVT$67New Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $134 across 37 hospitalsWA$134Idaho: median $95 across 11 hospitalsID$95Montana: median $68 across 12 hospitalsMT$68North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $96 across 47 hospitalsMN$96Illinois: median $71 across 62 hospitalsIL$71Wisconsin: median $102 across 62 hospitalsWI$102Michigan: median $136 across 55 hospitalsMI$136New York: median $153 across 57 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $175 across 29 hospitalsMA$175Oregon: median $96 across 33 hospitalsOR$96Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $147 across 10 hospitalsSD$147Iowa: median $71 across 33 hospitalsIA$71Indiana: median $83 across 59 hospitalsIN$83Ohio: median $107 across 77 hospitalsOH$107Pennsylvania: median $151 across 57 hospitalsPA$151New Jersey: median $152 across 41 hospitalsNJ$152Connecticut: median $122 across 10 hospitalsCT$122Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $150 across 92 hospitalsCA$150Utah: median $116 across 13 hospitalsUT$116Colorado: median $93 across 22 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $74 across 22 hospitalsNE$74Missouri: median $70 across 30 hospitalsMO$70Kentucky: median $59 across 23 hospitalsKY$59West Virginia: median $120 across 23 hospitalsWV$120Virginia: median $103 across 25 hospitalsVA$103Maryland: median $216 across 11 hospitalsMD$216Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $163 across 19 hospitalsAZ$163New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $51 across 26 hospitalsKS$51Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $42 across 18 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $73 across 36 hospitalsNC$73South Carolina: median $209 across 22 hospitalsSC$209Oklahoma: median $60 across 15 hospitalsOK$60Louisiana: median $56 across 22 hospitalsLA$56Mississippi: median $76 across 12 hospitalsMS$76Alabama: median $157 across 10 hospitalsAL$157Georgia: median $81 across 33 hospitalsGA$81Hawaii: median $222 across 14 hospitalsHI$222Texas: median $116 across 51 hospitalsTX$116Florida: median $129 across 59 hospitalsFL$129
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $107. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Hawaii HI14$222+108%$103 – $308
Maryland MD11$216+103%$80 – $322
South Carolina SC22$209+97%$101 – $209
Massachusetts MA29$175+64%$122 – $329
Arizona AZ19$163+53%$50 – $354
Alabama AL10$157+47%$45 – $256
New York NY57$153+43%$51 – $279
New Jersey NJ41$152+43%$95 – $228
Pennsylvania PA57$151+42%$117 – $218
California CA92$150+41%$83 – $198
South Dakota SD10$147+38%$34 – $167
Michigan MI55$136+27%$51 – $207
Washington WA37$134+26%$57 – $162
Alaska AK12$132+24%$89 – $245
Florida FL59$129+21%$53 – $246
Connecticut CT10$122+15%$104 – $170
West Virginia WV23$120+12%$41 – $146
Texas TX51$116+9%$49 – $159
Utah UT13$116+9%$93 – $116
Ohio OH77$1070%$72 – $253
Virginia VA25$103−4%$43 – $138
Wisconsin WI62$102−4%$55 – $149
Oregon OR33$96−10%$73 – $304
Minnesota MN47$96−10%$65 – $127
Idaho ID11$95−11%$64 – $341
Colorado CO22$93−13%$70 – $177
Indiana IN59$83−22%$38 – $190
Georgia GA33$81−24%$59 – $215
Mississippi MS12$76−29%$42 – $154
Nebraska NE22$74−31%$56 – $108
North Carolina NC36$73−31%$61 – $104
Iowa IA33$71−33%$40 – $130
Illinois IL62$71−33%$45 – $155
Missouri MO30$70−35%$43 – $136
Montana MT12$68−37%$52 – $120
Vermont VT11$67−37%$52 – $92
Oklahoma OK15$60−44%$60 – $104
Maine ME13$59−45%$46 – $137
Kentucky KY23$59−45%$32 – $434
Louisiana LA22$56−47%$37 – $118
Kansas KS26$51−52%$30 – $94
Tennessee TN18$42−61%$16 – $131
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $107.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care991$116$55 – $203
Children’s61$160$101 – $455
Critical access315$79$46 – $149
Ownership
For-profit86$82$38 – $230
Government237$81$48 – $153
Non-profit1,044$116$55 – $201
System affiliation
Part of a system1,118$110$55 – $193
Independent256$83$47 – $184

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$175
Median cash price$107
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

955 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $110 and the average of the middle 60% is $116; most fall between $55 and $209.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 955 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
$38$61$110$176$329

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $329).

Of the 1,006 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 955 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,374 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,453 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,374
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code1,453

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 Pure Tone Audiometry Air Only.

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, “Hearing threshold test with tones through headphones (CPT 92552) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92552-hearing-threshold-test-with-tones-through-headphones