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Limited hearing nerve and brainstem response test

CPT 92586the billing code this page is about

A shortened version of the hearing nerve response test, often used as a newborn or screening check rather than a full evaluation.

Hospitals typically charge $265 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 184 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $227. Most fall between $95 and $399 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
184
States
33
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 184 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
$74$105$265$323$662

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $662).

How the prices are spread

$53 – $72: 9 hospitals$53$72 – $98: 19 hospitals$98 – $134: 29 hospitals$98$134 – $183: 15 hospitals$183 – $250: 7 hospitals$183$250 – $341: 54 hospitals$341 – $465: 9 hospitals$341$465 – $635: 13 hospitals$635 – $867: 9 hospitals$635$867 – $1,184: 3 hospitals$867median $265price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (167 of 184 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$53$729
$72$9819
$98$13429
$134$18315
$183$2507
$250$34154
$341$4659
$465$63513
$635$8679
$867$1,1843

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $265.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $254 across 11 hospitalsIL$254Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $154 across 10 hospitalsNY$154Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $596 across 11 hospitalsPA$596New Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $382 across 14 hospitalsCA$382Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $105 across 10 hospitalsOK$105Louisiana: median $114 across 11 hospitalsLA$114Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $294 across 33 hospitalsTX$294Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $265. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA11$596+125%$291 – $596
California CA14$382+44%$115 – $662
Texas TX33$294+11%$294 – $323
Illinois IL11$254−4%$74 – $399
New York NY10$154−42%$39 – $384
Louisiana LA11$114−57%$62 – $265
Oklahoma OK10$105−60%$105 – $105
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $265.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care152$272$100 – $527
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$148$77 – $323
Ownership
For-profit22$122$74 – $294
Government28$148$94 – $319
Non-profit134$281$105 – $537
System affiliation
Part of a system157$272$100 – $469
Independent27$224$95 – $294

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$393
Median cash price$265
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

141 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $288 and the average of the middle 60% is $237; most fall between $99 and $444.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 141 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
$74$105$288$323$741

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($74 vs $741).

Of the 157 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 141 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

184 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 206 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted184
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) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code206

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 5, 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Auditory Evoked Potential, Limited.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Limited hearing nerve and brainstem response test (CPT 92586) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92586-limited-hearing-nerve-and-brainstem-response-test