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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Play-based hearing test for young children

CPT 92582the billing code this page is about

A hearing test in which a child is taught to perform a simple play action, such as dropping a block, each time a sound is heard.

Hospitals typically charge $190 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 928 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $216. Most fall between $123 and $353 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
928
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 928 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
$82$136$190$324$459

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $459).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $73: 29 hospitals$58$73 – $92: 41 hospitals$92 – $116: 50 hospitals$92$116 – $146: 115 hospitals$146 – $184: 151 hospitals$146$184 – $232: 118 hospitals$232 – $292: 98 hospitals$232$292 – $367: 114 hospitals$367 – $462: 83 hospitals$367$462 – $581: 37 hospitals$462median $190price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (836 of 928 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$7329
$73$9241
$92$11650
$116$146115
$146$184151
$184$232118
$232$29298
$292$367114
$367$46283
$462$58137

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$190
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.45×

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 $190.

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: 7 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 $298 across 17 hospitalsWA$298Idaho: 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 $176 across 26 hospitalsMN$176Illinois: median $169 across 43 hospitalsIL$169Wisconsin: median $178 across 45 hospitalsWI$178Michigan: median $215 across 39 hospitalsMI$215New York: median $239 across 62 hospitalsNY$239Massachusetts: median $327 across 21 hospitalsMA$327Oregon: median $189 across 16 hospitalsOR$189Nevada: 3 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 $158 across 19 hospitalsIA$158Indiana: median $121 across 50 hospitalsIN$121Ohio: median $220 across 57 hospitalsOH$220Pennsylvania: median $183 across 28 hospitalsPA$183New Jersey: median $195 across 37 hospitalsNJ$195Connecticut: 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 $353 across 53 hospitalsCA$353Utah: median $313 across 10 hospitalsUT$313Colorado: median $269 across 15 hospitalsCO$269Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $146 across 18 hospitalsMO$146Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $123 across 14 hospitalsWV$123Virginia: median $146 across 10 hospitalsVA$146Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $210 across 16 hospitalsAZ$210New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $121 across 16 hospitalsKS$121Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $82 across 10 hospitalsTN$82North Carolina: median $143 across 29 hospitalsNC$143South Carolina: median $273 across 11 hospitalsSC$273Oklahoma: median $136 across 13 hospitalsOK$136Louisiana: median $99 across 19 hospitalsLA$99Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $198 across 10 hospitalsAL$198Georgia: median $250 across 29 hospitalsGA$250Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $279 across 45 hospitalsTX$279Florida: median $286 across 37 hospitalsFL$286
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $190. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA53$353+85%$140 – $469
Massachusetts MA21$327+72%$228 – $688
Utah UT10$313+65%$251 – $313
Washington WA17$298+57%$163 – $365
Florida FL37$286+50%$148 – $377
Texas TX45$279+47%$107 – $349
South Carolina SC11$273+43%$125 – $282
Colorado CO15$269+41%$142 – $424
Georgia GA29$250+31%$189 – $461
New York NY62$239+26%$150 – $400
Ohio OH57$220+15%$148 – $407
Michigan MI39$215+13%$122 – $459
Arizona AZ16$210+10%$134 – $705
Alabama AL10$198+4%$114 – $506
New Jersey NJ37$195+2%$171 – $456
Oregon OR16$189−1%$163 – $216
Pennsylvania PA28$183−4%$131 – $282
Wisconsin WI45$178−7%$161 – $331
Minnesota MN26$176−8%$161 – $212
Illinois IL43$169−11%$82 – $336
Iowa IA19$158−17%$121 – $158
Virginia VA10$146−23%$64 – $146
Missouri MO18$146−23%$135 – $258
North Carolina NC29$143−25%$123 – $230
Oklahoma OK13$136−29%$136 – $284
West Virginia WV14$123−35%$87 – $210
Indiana IN50$121−36%$75 – $238
Kansas KS16$121−36%$56 – $188
Louisiana LA19$99−48%$49 – $202
Tennessee TN10$82−57%$75 – $161
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not 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 NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not 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 $190.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care714$188$121 – $353
Children’s60$298$169 – $637
Critical access150$188$123 – $322
Ownership
For-profit57$187$88 – $414
Government135$185$126 – $365
Non-profit732$204$123 – $353
System affiliation
Part of a system770$202$123 – $353
Independent158$176$121 – $330

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$372
Median cash price$190
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

650 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $209 and the average of the middle 60% is $223; most fall between $123 and $365.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 650 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
$86$138$209$348$459

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $459).

Of the 675 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 650 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 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

928 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (23%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 966 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted928
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here11
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code966

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 Conditioning Play Audiometry.

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, “Play-based hearing test for young children (CPT 92582) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92582-play-based-hearing-test-for-young-children