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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Filtered speech hearing test

CPT 92571the billing code this page is about

A listening test using speech that has had some frequencies removed, used to assess how the brain processes distorted speech.

Hospitals typically charge $65 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 284 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $73. Most fall between $44 and $121 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
284
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 284 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$46$65$113$186

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $186).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $30: 7 hospitals$24$30 – $38: 14 hospitals$38 – $48: 45 hospitals$38$48 – $60: 49 hospitals$60 – $75: 23 hospitals$60$75 – $95: 30 hospitals$95 – $119: 45 hospitals$95$119 – $150: 25 hospitals$150 – $188: 4 hospitals$150$188 – $237: 15 hospitals$188median $65price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (257 of 284 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$307
$30$3814
$38$4845
$48$6049
$60$7523
$75$9530
$95$11945
$119$15025
$150$1884
$188$23715

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$65
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.70×

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 $65.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $26 across 12 hospitalsIL$26Wisconsin: median $76 across 14 hospitalsWI$76Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $46 across 28 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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 $57 across 16 hospitalsIA$57Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $237 across 13 hospitalsOH$237Pennsylvania: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $46 across 18 hospitalsNJ$46Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $113 across 36 hospitalsCA$113Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 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 $48 across 12 hospitalsOK$48Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $126 across 18 hospitalsTX$126Florida: median $83 across 14 hospitalsFL$83
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $65. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH13$237+265%$134 – $237
Texas TX18$126+93%$108 – $126
California CA36$113+73%$99 – $113
Florida FL14$83+28%$38 – $133
Wisconsin WI14$76+17%$76 – $76
Iowa IA16$57−13%$57 – $57
Oklahoma OK12$48−26%$48 – $48
New York NY28$46−29%$46 – $239
New Jersey NJ18$46−29%$43 – $53
Illinois IL12$26−60%$24 – $67
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $65.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care240$65$45 – $118
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access32$64$36 – $76
Ownership
For-profit24$64$24 – $132
Government41$46$38 – $87
Non-profit218$75$46 – $122
System affiliation
Part of a system248$69$46 – $126
Independent36$54$39 – $89

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$132
Median cash price$65
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

202 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $76 and the average of the middle 60% is $84; most fall between $48 and $126.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 202 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
$37$49$76$113$211

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $211).

Of the 210 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 202 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

284 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 297 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted284
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code297

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 FILTERED SPEECH 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, “Filtered speech hearing test (CPT 92571) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92571-filtered-speech-hearing-test