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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Speech hearing threshold test

CPT 92555the billing code this page is about

Measures the softest level at which the patient can just repeat or recognize spoken words.

Hospitals typically charge $72 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,018 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $77. Most fall between $41 and $130 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,018
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,018 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
$31$46$72$112$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $184).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $26: 23 hospitals$20$26 – $34: 59 hospitals$34 – $44: 88 hospitals$34$44 – $56: 145 hospitals$56 – $72: 146 hospitals$56$72 – $93: 133 hospitals$93 – $119: 132 hospitals$93$119 – $153: 83 hospitals$153 – $197: 73 hospitals$153$197 – $254: 38 hospitals$197median $72price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (920 of 1,018 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2623
$26$3459
$34$4488
$44$56145
$56$72146
$72$93133
$93$119132
$119$15383
$153$19773
$197$25438

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$72
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.19×

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 $72.

Alaska: 6 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 $105 across 19 hospitalsWA$105Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $61 across 35 hospitalsMN$61Illinois: median $64 across 43 hospitalsIL$64Wisconsin: median $62 across 49 hospitalsWI$62Michigan: median $81 across 49 hospitalsMI$81New York: median $90 across 59 hospitalsNY$90Massachusetts: median $149 across 22 hospitalsMA$149Oregon: median $69 across 19 hospitalsOR$69Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $54 across 28 hospitalsIA$54Indiana: median $48 across 47 hospitalsIN$48Ohio: median $104 across 55 hospitalsOH$104Pennsylvania: median $85 across 44 hospitalsPA$85New Jersey: median $66 across 42 hospitalsNJ$66Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $83 across 62 hospitalsCA$83Utah: median $115 across 11 hospitalsUT$115Colorado: median $70 across 16 hospitalsCO$70Nebraska: median $57 across 14 hospitalsNE$57Missouri: median $55 across 22 hospitalsMO$55Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $33 across 17 hospitalsWV$33Virginia: median $22 across 13 hospitalsVA$22Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $177 across 16 hospitalsAZ$177New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $55 across 18 hospitalsKS$55Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $35 across 11 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $61 across 31 hospitalsNC$61South Carolina: median $101 across 11 hospitalsSC$101Oklahoma: median $46 across 13 hospitalsOK$46Louisiana: median $37 across 19 hospitalsLA$37Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $130 across 30 hospitalsGA$130Hawaii: median $134 across 10 hospitalsHI$134Texas: median $94 across 43 hospitalsTX$94Florida: median $91 across 37 hospitalsFL$91
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $72. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ16$177+146%$59 – $235
Massachusetts MA22$149+107%$74 – $194
Hawaii HI10$134+86%$52 – $142
Georgia GA30$130+81%$47 – $194
Utah UT11$115+60%$102 – $161
Washington WA19$105+46%$44 – $112
Ohio OH55$104+45%$57 – $155
South Carolina SC11$101+40%$34 – $105
Texas TX43$94+30%$36 – $107
Florida FL37$91+27%$36 – $194
New York NY59$90+25%$60 – $107
Pennsylvania PA44$85+18%$60 – $149
California CA62$83+15%$80 – $109
Michigan MI49$81+13%$40 – $142
Colorado CO16$70−3%$59 – $165
Oregon OR19$69−4%$45 – $246
New Jersey NJ42$66−9%$49 – $212
Illinois IL43$64−11%$31 – $128
Wisconsin WI49$62−14%$35 – $120
Minnesota MN35$61−15%$55 – $84
North Carolina NC31$61−15%$50 – $85
Nebraska NE14$57−21%$36 – $114
Kansas KS18$55−24%$18 – $77
Missouri MO22$55−24%$41 – $65
Iowa IA28$54−26%$38 – $59
Indiana IN47$48−33%$31 – $104
Oklahoma OK13$46−37%$46 – $106
Louisiana LA19$37−48%$14 – $92
Tennessee TN11$35−51%$27 – $74
West Virginia WV17$33−55%$29 – $53
Virginia VA13$22−70%$18 – $92
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not 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 $72.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care782$70$42 – $130
Children’s61$105$70 – $258
Critical access172$64$40 – $120
Ownership
For-profit70$75$30 – $170
Government142$64$40 – $126
Non-profit803$77$43 – $130
System affiliation
Part of a system855$75$41 – $134
Independent163$64$43 – $115

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$133
Median cash price$72
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

709 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $81 and the average of the middle 60% is $82; most fall between $41 and $144.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 709 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
$32$47$81$129$185

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $185).

Of the 734 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 709 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,018 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,056 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,018
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code1,056

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 Speech Audiometry Threshold.

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, “Speech hearing threshold test (CPT 92555) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92555-speech-hearing-threshold-test