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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Tone decay hearing test

CPT 92563the billing code this page is about

Measures whether a steady tone seems to fade away while it is still playing, which helps assess the hearing nerve.

Hospitals typically charge $64 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 415 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $65. Most fall between $36 and $103 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
415
States
47
Filings dated
Dec 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 415 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
$25$42$64$98$144

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $144).

How the prices are spread

$22 – $27: 33 hospitals$22$27 – $34: 16 hospitals$34 – $41: 31 hospitals$34$41 – $51: 69 hospitals$51 – $62: 34 hospitals$51$62 – $76: 51 hospitals$76 – $94: 51 hospitals$76$94 – $115: 52 hospitals$115 – $141: 16 hospitals$115$141 – $173: 23 hospitals$141median $64price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (376 of 415 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$22$2733
$27$3416
$34$4131
$41$5169
$51$6234
$62$7651
$76$9451
$94$11552
$115$14116
$141$17323

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$64
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.67×

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 $64.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $34 across 20 hospitalsIL$34Wisconsin: median $80 across 26 hospitalsWI$80Michigan: median $51 across 14 hospitalsMI$51New York: median $46 across 34 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $65 across 17 hospitalsIA$65Indiana: median $23 across 10 hospitalsIN$23Ohio: median $64 across 15 hospitalsOH$64Pennsylvania: median $44 across 20 hospitalsPA$44New Jersey: median $43 across 17 hospitalsNJ$43Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $113 across 40 hospitalsCA$113Utah: 2 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $22 across 13 hospitalsTN$22North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $55 across 13 hospitalsOK$55Louisiana: median $30 across 14 hospitalsLA$30Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $152 across 16 hospitalsGA$152Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $90 across 23 hospitalsTX$90Florida: median $64 across 14 hospitalsFL$64
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $64. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA16$152+139%$135 – $152
California CA40$113+77%$99 – $113
Texas TX23$90+42%$61 – $90
Wisconsin WI26$80+26%$80 – $154
Iowa IA17$65+2%$46 – $65
Florida FL14$640%$36 – $105
Ohio OH15$640%$42 – $102
Oklahoma OK13$55−14%$55 – $75
Michigan MI14$51−19%$47 – $80
New York NY34$46−27%$44 – $94
Pennsylvania PA20$44−31%$38 – $72
New Jersey NJ17$43−32%$43 – $51
Illinois IL20$34−47%$23 – $67
Louisiana LA14$30−54%$14 – $52
Indiana IN10$23−64%$23 – $38
Tennessee TN13$22−65%$13 – $33
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $64.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care344$59$36 – $102
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access61$78$38 – $94
Ownership
For-profit36$49$25 – $101
Government56$51$36 – $94
Non-profit323$65$38 – $113
System affiliation
Part of a system345$65$36 – $113
Independent70$56$36 – $89

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$119
Median cash price$64
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

276 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $73 and the average of the middle 60% is $77; most fall between $43 and $113.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 276 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
$23$47$73$113$152

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $152).

Of the 290 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 276 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

415 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 436 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted415
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code436

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 Tone Decay Test.

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, “Tone decay hearing test (CPT 92563) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92563-tone-decay-hearing-test