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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Cochlear implant check and programming, age 7 and older

CPT 92603the billing code this page is about

Testing of a cochlear implant in a person age 7 or older, including setting and adjusting the processor's programming at the visit.

Hospitals typically charge $302 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 537 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $311. Most fall between $161 and $552 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
537
States
49
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 537 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
$106$176$302$471$631

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($106 vs $631).

How the prices are spread

$73 – $93: 21 hospitals$73$93 – $119: 14 hospitals$119 – $152: 35 hospitals$119$152 – $195: 68 hospitals$195 – $249: 72 hospitals$195$249 – $319: 50 hospitals$319 – $409: 79 hospitals$319$409 – $523: 53 hospitals$523 – $670: 79 hospitals$523$670 – $857: 20 hospitals$670median $302price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (491 of 537 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$73$9321
$93$11914
$119$15235
$152$19568
$195$24972
$249$31950
$319$40979
$409$52353
$523$67079
$670$85720

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$302
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $302.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 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: median $464 across 18 hospitalsMN$464Illinois: median $230 across 23 hospitalsIL$230Wisconsin: median $458 across 35 hospitalsWI$458Michigan: median $357 across 28 hospitalsMI$357New York: median $185 across 28 hospitalsNY$185Massachusetts: median $400 across 14 hospitalsMA$400Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $346 across 14 hospitalsIA$346Indiana: median $191 across 20 hospitalsIN$191Ohio: median $407 across 24 hospitalsOH$407Pennsylvania: median $152 across 27 hospitalsPA$152New Jersey: median $184 across 23 hospitalsNJ$184Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $605 across 38 hospitalsCA$605Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $234 across 10 hospitalsVA$234Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $162 across 10 hospitalsTN$162North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $232 across 13 hospitalsOK$232Louisiana: median $78 across 13 hospitalsLA$78Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $337 across 17 hospitalsGA$337Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $517 across 29 hospitalsTX$517Florida: median $245 across 25 hospitalsFL$245
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $302. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA38$605+100%$341 – $605
Texas TX29$517+71%$196 – $552
Minnesota MN18$464+54%$375 – $609
Wisconsin WI35$458+52%$199 – $458
Ohio OH24$407+35%$272 – $857
Massachusetts MA14$400+32%$294 – $528
Michigan MI28$357+18%$177 – $563
Iowa IA14$346+15%$346 – $346
Georgia GA17$337+12%$195 – $349
Florida FL25$245−19%$148 – $535
Virginia VA10$234−22%$88 – $234
Oklahoma OK13$232−23%$232 – $319
Illinois IL23$230−24%$134 – $431
Indiana IN20$191−37%$145 – $302
New York NY28$185−39%$161 – $580
New Jersey NJ23$184−39%$173 – $236
Tennessee TN10$162−46%$93 – $176
Pennsylvania PA27$152−50%$76 – $348
Louisiana LA13$78−74%$56 – $175
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $302.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care432$266$153 – $517
Children’s43$405$290 – $855
Critical access61$357$199 – $563
Ownership
For-profit38$259$165 – $501
Government73$230$141 – $380
Non-profit425$324$161 – $569
System affiliation
Part of a system463$302$161 – $558
Independent74$290$166 – $501

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$517
Median cash price$302
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

388 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $346 and the average of the middle 60% is $356; most fall between $176 and $587.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 388 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
$113$199$346$552$633

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($113 vs $633).

Of the 405 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 388 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 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

537 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 554 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted537
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code554

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 Analysis Cochlear Implt 7 Yr/> Prgrmg.

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, “Cochlear implant check and programming, age 7 and older (CPT 92603) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92603-cochlear-implant-check-and-programming-age-7-and-older