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Procedure price report · Diagnostic physical, occupational, and speech therapy

Training and setup for a non-speaking communication device

CPT 92606the billing code this page is about

Therapy session covering programming, adjusting and teaching use of a communication aid that does not produce speech.

Hospitals typically charge $186 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 811 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $185. Most fall between $97 and $284 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
811
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 811 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
$66$106$186$259$420

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($66 vs $420).

How the prices are spread

$47 – $61: 29 hospitals$47$61 – $77: 47 hospitals$77 – $98: 60 hospitals$77$98 – $126: 84 hospitals$126 – $160: 75 hospitals$126$160 – $204: 129 hospitals$204 – $260: 145 hospitals$204$260 – $332: 89 hospitals$332 – $423: 35 hospitals$332$423 – $540: 38 hospitals$423median $186price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (731 of 811 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$47$6129
$61$7747
$77$9860
$98$12684
$126$16075
$160$204129
$204$260145
$260$33289
$332$42335
$423$54038

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $186.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $121 across 14 hospitalsME$121Vermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $165 across 20 hospitalsWA$165Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $229 across 39 hospitalsMN$229Illinois: median $172 across 34 hospitalsIL$172Wisconsin: median $255 across 38 hospitalsWI$255Michigan: median $127 across 10 hospitalsMI$127New York: median $193 across 33 hospitalsNY$193Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $224 across 17 hospitalsOR$224Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $186 across 20 hospitalsIA$186Indiana: median $115 across 41 hospitalsIN$115Ohio: median $175 across 20 hospitalsOH$175Pennsylvania: median $67 across 26 hospitalsPA$67New Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 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 $276 across 53 hospitalsCA$276Utah: median $107 across 12 hospitalsUT$107Colorado: median $98 across 35 hospitalsCO$98Nebraska: median $225 across 14 hospitalsNE$225Missouri: median $183 across 16 hospitalsMO$183Kentucky: median $130 across 15 hospitalsKY$130West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $189 across 19 hospitalsVA$189Maryland: median $164 across 24 hospitalsMD$164Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $184 across 20 hospitalsAZ$184New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $222 across 12 hospitalsKS$222Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $79 across 18 hospitalsTN$79North Carolina: median $227 across 18 hospitalsNC$227South Carolina: median $251 across 14 hospitalsSC$251Oklahoma: median $137 across 16 hospitalsOK$137Louisiana: median $105 across 11 hospitalsLA$105Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $113 across 27 hospitalsGA$113Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $180 across 42 hospitalsTX$180Florida: median $213 across 32 hospitalsFL$213
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $186. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA53$276+48%$97 – $414
Wisconsin WI38$255+37%$246 – $259
South Carolina SC14$251+34%$111 – $267
Minnesota MN39$229+23%$190 – $251
North Carolina NC18$227+22%$142 – $269
Nebraska NE14$225+21%$183 – $369
Oregon OR17$224+20%$183 – $266
Kansas KS12$222+19%$69 – $538
Florida FL32$213+14%$129 – $428
New York NY33$193+4%$83 – $316
Virginia VA19$189+2%$42 – $518
Iowa IA20$1860%$186 – $237
Arizona AZ20$184−1%$63 – $690
Missouri MO16$183−2%$98 – $440
Texas TX42$180−4%$58 – $239
Ohio OH20$175−6%$89 – $274
Illinois IL34$172−8%$76 – $330
Washington WA20$165−11%$156 – $300
Maryland MD24$164−12%$120 – $223
Oklahoma OK16$137−27%$137 – $194
Kentucky KY15$130−30%$103 – $159
Michigan MI10$127−32%$107 – $259
Maine ME14$121−35%$50 – $413
Indiana IN41$115−38%$79 – $187
Georgia GA27$113−39%$106 – $415
Utah UT12$107−42%$107 – $107
Louisiana LA11$105−44%$73 – $133
Colorado CO35$98−47%$76 – $243
Tennessee TN18$79−58%$56 – $105
Pennsylvania PA26$67−64%$46 – $196
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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 $186.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care625$180$88 – $276
Children’s42$320$142 – $520
Critical access143$190$104 – $259
Ownership
For-profit76$194$95 – $643
Government117$171$106 – $251
Non-profit617$186$93 – $276
System affiliation
Part of a system665$186$97 – $276
Independent146$187$89 – $289

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$330
Median cash price$186
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

614 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $186 and the average of the middle 60% is $186; most fall between $103 and $276.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 614 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
$73$107$186$259$414

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($73 vs $414).

Of the 647 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 614 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 26 a list price only.

How complete is this

811 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 888 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted811
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded65
Hospitals that filed this code888

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 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Diagnostic physical, occupational, and speech therapy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as NON-SPEECH DEVICE SERVICE.

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, “Training and setup for a non-speaking communication device (CPT 92606) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92606-training-and-setup-for-a-non-speaking-communication-device