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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Speech hearing threshold with word recognition test

CPT 92556the billing code this page is about

Measures the softest level at which speech is heard, plus how accurately the patient repeats words presented at a comfortable listening level.

Hospitals typically charge $97 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 987 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $102. Most fall between $59 and $175 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
987
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 987 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
$40$66$97$155$245

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($40 vs $245).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $35: 31 hospitals$27$35 – $45: 39 hospitals$45 – $57: 71 hospitals$45$57 – $73: 132 hospitals$73 – $93: 154 hospitals$73$93 – $118: 153 hospitals$118 – $151: 98 hospitals$118$151 – $192: 92 hospitals$192 – $245: 66 hospitals$192$245 – $312: 53 hospitals$245median $97price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (889 of 987 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$3531
$35$4539
$45$5771
$57$73132
$73$93154
$93$118153
$118$15198
$151$19292
$192$24566
$245$31253

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$97
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.60×

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 $97.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 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 $124 across 19 hospitalsWA$124Idaho: 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 $93 across 34 hospitalsMN$93Illinois: median $90 across 51 hospitalsIL$90Wisconsin: median $108 across 50 hospitalsWI$108Michigan: median $100 across 43 hospitalsMI$100New York: median $74 across 49 hospitalsNY$74Massachusetts: median $173 across 22 hospitalsMA$173Oregon: median $86 across 18 hospitalsOR$86Nevada: 2 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 $80 across 27 hospitalsIA$80Indiana: median $82 across 49 hospitalsIN$82Ohio: median $104 across 53 hospitalsOH$104Pennsylvania: median $100 across 45 hospitalsPA$100New Jersey: median $79 across 36 hospitalsNJ$79Connecticut: 8 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 $155 across 67 hospitalsCA$155Utah: median $179 across 11 hospitalsUT$179Colorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $71 across 14 hospitalsNE$71Missouri: median $65 across 22 hospitalsMO$65Kentucky: median $33 across 10 hospitalsKY$33West Virginia: median $67 across 16 hospitalsWV$67Virginia: median $92 across 11 hospitalsVA$92Maryland: 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 14 hospitalsKS$55Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $35 across 15 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $88 across 31 hospitalsNC$88South Carolina: median $101 across 12 hospitalsSC$101Oklahoma: median $71 across 13 hospitalsOK$71Louisiana: median $43 across 20 hospitalsLA$43Mississippi: 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 $173 across 27 hospitalsGA$173Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $125 across 43 hospitalsTX$125Florida: median $91 across 36 hospitalsFL$91
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $97. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT11$179+85%$143 – $179
Arizona AZ16$177+83%$72 – $245
Massachusetts MA22$173+79%$93 – $209
Georgia GA27$173+79%$89 – $336
California CA67$155+60%$89 – $200
Texas TX43$125+30%$41 – $151
Washington WA19$124+28%$55 – $168
Wisconsin WI50$108+11%$84 – $181
Ohio OH53$104+8%$87 – $155
South Carolina SC12$101+4%$51 – $107
Michigan MI43$100+4%$54 – $202
Pennsylvania PA45$100+4%$68 – $227
Minnesota MN34$93−4%$73 – $146
Virginia VA11$92−4%$29 – $133
Florida FL36$91−6%$59 – $194
Illinois IL51$90−7%$47 – $137
North Carolina NC31$88−9%$80 – $123
Oregon OR18$86−11%$69 – $300
Indiana IN49$82−15%$46 – $147
Iowa IA27$80−17%$42 – $83
New Jersey NJ36$79−18%$68 – $329
New York NY49$74−24%$62 – $207
Oklahoma OK13$71−26%$71 – $106
Nebraska NE14$71−27%$43 – $114
West Virginia WV16$67−31%$45 – $82
Missouri MO22$65−33%$42 – $112
Kansas KS14$55−43%$27 – $120
Louisiana LA20$43−56%$22 – $72
Tennessee TN15$35−64%$9 – $65
Kentucky KY10$33−65%$27 – $55
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not 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
Maine ME7not 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
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not 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
Nevada NV2not 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 $97.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care754$92$56 – $175
Children’s61$158$86 – $317
Critical access170$98$57 – $146
Ownership
For-profit61$101$43 – $190
Government144$83$52 – $158
Non-profit780$98$63 – $179
System affiliation
Part of a system831$98$61 – $179
Independent156$84$50 – $151

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$166
Median cash price$97
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

695 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $104 and the average of the middle 60% is $112; most fall between $59 and $182.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 695 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
$41$69$104$173$245

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $245).

Of the 724 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 695 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 19 a list price only.

How complete is this

987 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,020 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted987
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 code1,020

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 Speech Recognij.

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 with word recognition test (CPT 92556) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92556-speech-hearing-threshold-with-word-recognition-test