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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Speech-based test for exaggerated hearing loss

CPT 92577the billing code this page is about

A hearing test that presents speech to both ears at different loudness levels to check whether reported hearing loss matches the responses given.

Hospitals typically charge $303 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 466 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $318. Most fall between $50 and $773 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
466
States
48
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 466 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
$38$68$303$628$953

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $953).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $43: 50 hospitals$29$43 – $64: 47 hospitals$64 – $94: 34 hospitals$64$94 – $139: 26 hospitals$139 – $206: 27 hospitals$139$206 – $305: 33 hospitals$305 – $452: 58 hospitals$305$452 – $669: 70 hospitals$669 – $991: 61 hospitals$669$991 – $1,466: 21 hospitals$991median $303price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (427 of 466 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$4350
$43$6447
$64$9434
$94$13926
$139$20627
$206$30533
$305$45258
$452$66970
$669$99161
$991$1,46621

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$381
Median cash price$303
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.79×

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 $303.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 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 $171 across 10 hospitalsMN$171Illinois: median $192 across 23 hospitalsIL$192Wisconsin: median $86 across 14 hospitalsWI$86Michigan: median $513 across 14 hospitalsMI$513New York: median $628 across 29 hospitalsNY$628Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $41 across 18 hospitalsIA$41Indiana: median $50 across 32 hospitalsIN$50Ohio: median $404 across 31 hospitalsOH$404Pennsylvania: median $441 across 15 hospitalsPA$441New Jersey: median $587 across 15 hospitalsNJ$587Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $823 across 31 hospitalsCA$823Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $883 across 11 hospitalsAZ$883New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $289 across 10 hospitalsNC$289South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $34 across 13 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $194 across 10 hospitalsLA$194Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $743 across 10 hospitalsGA$743Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $339 across 33 hospitalsTX$339Florida: median $245 across 16 hospitalsFL$245
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $303. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$883+191%$458 – $883
California CA31$823+172%$823 – $823
Georgia GA10$743+145%$79 – $1,478
New York NY29$628+107%$112 – $628
New Jersey NJ15$587+94%$307 – $625
Michigan MI14$513+69%$120 – $1,183
Pennsylvania PA15$441+46%$200 – $622
Ohio OH31$404+33%$97 – $612
Texas TX33$339+12%$177 – $467
North Carolina NC10$289−5%$56 – $391
Florida FL16$245−19%$124 – $519
Louisiana LA10$194−36%$122 – $218
Illinois IL23$192−37%$41 – $555
Minnesota MN10$171−43%$171 – $224
Wisconsin WI14$86−72%$81 – $103
Indiana IN32$50−83%$38 – $68
Iowa IA18$41−87%$41 – $454
Oklahoma OK13$34−89%$34 – $393
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $303.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care367$330$54 – $727
Children’s33$451$104 – $2,601
Critical access65$79$43 – $650
Ownership
For-profit37$300$43 – $883
Government80$303$58 – $628
Non-profit348$306$50 – $823
System affiliation
Part of a system390$319$50 – $823
Independent76$272$49 – $612

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$539
Median cash price$303
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

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $254 and the average of the middle 60% is $330; most fall between $44 and $823.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 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
$34$55$254$727$941

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $941).

Of the 333 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

466 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 494 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted466
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 code494

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 Speech.

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-based test for exaggerated hearing loss (CPT 92577) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92577-speech-based-test-for-exaggerated-hearing-loss