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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx

Bedside swallowing evaluation

CPT 92610the billing code this page is about

Clinical examination of how well a patient swallows using the mouth and throat, done without imaging equipment.

Hospitals typically charge $265 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,350 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $272. Most fall between $142 and $443 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,350
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 3,350 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
$96$165$265$395$612

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($96 vs $612).

How the prices are spread

$77 – $97: 178 hospitals$77$97 – $122: 197 hospitals$122 – $154: 223 hospitals$122$154 – $195: 341 hospitals$195 – $246: 415 hospitals$195$246 – $310: 473 hospitals$310 – $391: 514 hospitals$310$391 – $493: 315 hospitals$493 – $623: 215 hospitals$493$623 – $786: 149 hospitals$623median $265price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,020 of 3,350 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$77$97178
$97$122197
$122$154223
$154$195341
$195$246415
$246$310473
$310$391514
$391$493315
$493$623215
$623$786149

By state

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

Alaska: median $551 across 19 hospitalsAK$551Maine: median $192 across 28 hospitalsME$192Vermont: median $319 across 14 hospitalsVT$319New Hampshire: median $206 across 24 hospitalsNH$206Washington: median $290 across 73 hospitalsWA$290Idaho: median $233 across 23 hospitalsID$233Montana: median $293 across 28 hospitalsMT$293North Dakota: median $320 across 28 hospitalsND$320Minnesota: median $305 across 106 hospitalsMN$305Illinois: median $310 across 133 hospitalsIL$310Wisconsin: median $338 across 103 hospitalsWI$338Michigan: median $270 across 98 hospitalsMI$270New York: median $267 across 112 hospitalsNY$267Massachusetts: median $436 across 53 hospitalsMA$436Oregon: median $295 across 54 hospitalsOR$295Nevada: median $266 across 20 hospitalsNV$266Wyoming: median $241 across 15 hospitalsWY$241South Dakota: median $380 across 42 hospitalsSD$380Iowa: median $283 across 93 hospitalsIA$283Indiana: median $200 across 94 hospitalsIN$200Ohio: median $270 across 141 hospitalsOH$270Pennsylvania: median $325 across 123 hospitalsPA$325New Jersey: median $91 across 44 hospitalsNJ$91Connecticut: median $350 across 23 hospitalsCT$350Rhode Island: median $193 across 10 hospitalsRI$193California: median $330 across 190 hospitalsCA$330Utah: median $458 across 39 hospitalsUT$458Colorado: median $310 across 71 hospitalsCO$310Nebraska: median $311 across 83 hospitalsNE$311Missouri: median $170 across 82 hospitalsMO$170Kentucky: median $258 across 70 hospitalsKY$258West Virginia: median $192 across 40 hospitalsWV$192Virginia: median $245 across 73 hospitalsVA$245Maryland: median $239 across 41 hospitalsMD$239Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $205 across 53 hospitalsAZ$205New Mexico: median $312 across 29 hospitalsNM$312Kansas: median $198 across 89 hospitalsKS$198Arkansas: median $116 across 31 hospitalsAR$116Tennessee: median $131 across 82 hospitalsTN$131North Carolina: median $217 across 95 hospitalsNC$217South Carolina: median $288 across 49 hospitalsSC$288Oklahoma: median $149 across 67 hospitalsOK$149Louisiana: median $142 across 52 hospitalsLA$142Mississippi: median $135 across 57 hospitalsMS$135Alabama: median $146 across 40 hospitalsAL$146Georgia: median $209 across 106 hospitalsGA$209Hawaii: median $311 across 20 hospitalsHI$311Texas: median $286 across 225 hospitalsTX$286Florida: median $463 across 158 hospitalsFL$463
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
Alaska AK19$551+108%$327 – $771
Florida FL158$463+75%$236 – $925
Utah UT39$458+73%$264 – $574
Massachusetts MA53$436+65%$288 – $588
South Dakota SD42$380+43%$299 – $464
Connecticut CT23$350+32%$263 – $390
Wisconsin WI103$338+27%$184 – $447
California CA190$330+25%$206 – $764
Pennsylvania PA123$325+23%$75 – $533
North Dakota ND28$320+21%$258 – $398
Vermont VT14$319+20%$224 – $479
New Mexico NM29$312+18%$203 – $459
Nebraska NE83$311+17%$197 – $389
Hawaii HI20$311+17%$197 – $367
Illinois IL133$310+17%$112 – $465
Colorado CO71$310+17%$184 – $375
Minnesota MN106$305+15%$184 – $395
Oregon OR54$295+11%$232 – $395
Montana MT28$293+11%$215 – $375
Washington WA73$290+9%$196 – $405
South Carolina SC49$288+9%$180 – $332
Texas TX225$286+8%$126 – $479
Iowa IA93$283+7%$182 – $345
Michigan MI98$270+2%$87 – $351
Ohio OH141$270+2%$202 – $371
New York NY112$267+1%$104 – $514
Nevada NV20$2660%$136 – $457
Kentucky KY70$258−3%$176 – $537
Virginia VA73$245−8%$160 – $344
Wyoming WY15$241−9%$135 – $304
Maryland MD41$239−10%$185 – $326
Idaho ID23$233−12%$184 – $301
North Carolina NC95$217−18%$154 – $260
Georgia GA106$209−21%$117 – $448
New Hampshire NH24$206−22%$112 – $671
Arizona AZ53$205−23%$92 – $560
Indiana IN94$200−25%$116 – $310
Kansas KS89$198−25%$143 – $287
Rhode Island RI10$193−27%$112 – $618
Maine ME28$192−28%$106 – $385
West Virginia WV40$192−28%$147 – $289
Missouri MO82$170−36%$108 – $325
Oklahoma OK67$149−44%$88 – $218
Alabama AL40$146−45%$100 – $278
Louisiana LA52$142−46%$82 – $230
Mississippi MS57$135−49%$108 – $252
Tennessee TN82$131−51%$82 – $301
Arkansas AR31$116−56%$87 – $203
New Jersey NJ44$91−65%$84 – $377
Delaware DE7not 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 care2,333$259$128 – $457
Children’s72$355$152 – $627
Critical access935$278$164 – $410
Ownership
For-profit458$337$161 – $775
Government625$245$135 – $370
Non-profit2,257$266$138 – $426
System affiliation
Part of a system2,734$271$140 – $454
Independent616$241$145 – $383

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$438
Median cash price$265
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

2,305 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $270 and the average of the middle 60% is $276; most fall between $151 and $425.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,305 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
$105$177$270$388$574

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $574).

Of the 2,439 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,305 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 107 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,350 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (85%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,541 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,350
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded137
Hospitals that filed this code3,541

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 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 Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC 92610 Brief Clinical Swallow Eval.

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, “Bedside swallowing evaluation (CPT 92610) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92610-bedside-swallowing-evaluation