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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Stenger test using tones

CPT 92565the billing code this page is about

A test that plays tones to both ears at different levels to check whether reported hearing loss in one ear is consistent with the responses given.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 699 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $69. Most fall between $35 and $110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
699
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 699 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$40$68$105$166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $166).

How the prices are spread

$19 – $25: 41 hospitals$19$25 – $32: 38 hospitals$32 – $41: 81 hospitals$32$41 – $53: 68 hospitals$53 – $68: 93 hospitals$53$68 – $88: 111 hospitals$88 – $113: 96 hospitals$88$113 – $145: 33 hospitals$145 – $186: 50 hospitals$145$186 – $239: 20 hospitals$186median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (631 of 699 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$19$2541
$25$3238
$32$4181
$41$5368
$53$6893
$68$88111
$88$11396
$113$14533
$145$18650
$186$23920

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$68
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $68.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $48 across 13 hospitalsWA$48Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $62 across 28 hospitalsMN$62Illinois: median $48 across 34 hospitalsIL$48Wisconsin: median $68 across 39 hospitalsWI$68Michigan: median $40 across 26 hospitalsMI$40New York: median $70 across 40 hospitalsNY$70Massachusetts: median $94 across 16 hospitalsMA$94Oregon: median $69 across 15 hospitalsOR$69Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $39 across 21 hospitalsIA$39Indiana: median $33 across 36 hospitalsIN$33Ohio: median $109 across 32 hospitalsOH$109Pennsylvania: median $85 across 31 hospitalsPA$85New Jersey: median $68 across 24 hospitalsNJ$68Connecticut: 5 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 $78 across 55 hospitalsCA$78Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $59 across 12 hospitalsMO$59Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 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 $354 across 14 hospitalsAZ$354New Mexico: 2 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 $27 across 10 hospitalsTN$27North Carolina: median $68 across 14 hospitalsNC$68South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $33 across 13 hospitalsOK$33Louisiana: median $30 across 16 hospitalsLA$30Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $106 across 20 hospitalsGA$106Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $98 across 35 hospitalsTX$98Florida: median $80 across 25 hospitalsFL$80
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $68. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ14$354+422%$56 – $354
Ohio OH32$109+60%$61 – $162
Georgia GA20$106+56%$48 – $239
Texas TX35$98+45%$48 – $135
Massachusetts MA16$94+39%$52 – $180
Pennsylvania PA31$85+26%$67 – $127
Florida FL25$80+18%$35 – $91
California CA55$78+15%$75 – $109
New York NY40$70+4%$47 – $118
Oregon OR15$69+2%$40 – $154
Wisconsin WI39$68+1%$40 – $86
New Jersey NJ24$680%$65 – $171
North Carolina NC14$680%$30 – $88
Minnesota MN28$62−9%$61 – $67
Missouri MO12$59−13%$51 – $90
Illinois IL34$48−29%$26 – $149
Washington WA13$48−29%$29 – $194
Michigan MI26$40−42%$28 – $81
Iowa IA21$39−42%$39 – $65
Oklahoma OK13$33−51%$33 – $106
Indiana IN36$33−52%$20 – $56
Louisiana LA16$30−56%$13 – $74
Tennessee TN10$27−61%$17 – $33
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $68.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care540$68$33 – $109
Children’s52$126$53 – $261
Critical access105$52$35 – $91
Ownership
For-profit55$72$25 – $143
Government102$61$31 – $104
Non-profit540$68$38 – $110
System affiliation
Part of a system582$70$35 – $109
Independent117$59$37 – $110

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$118
Median cash price$68
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

491 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $70 and the average of the middle 60% is $71; most fall between $35 and $126.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 491 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
$24$40$70$108$166

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $166).

Of the 514 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 491 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 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

699 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 721 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted699
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
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 code721

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 Stenger Test Pure Tone.

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, “Stenger test using tones (CPT 92565) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92565-stenger-test-using-tones