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

Swallowing study with moving X-ray recording

CPT 92611the billing code this page is about

Swallowing is filmed with continuous X-ray while the patient takes food or liquid, and the recording is reviewed and reported.

Hospitals typically charge $328 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,051 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $341. Most fall between $184 and $554 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,051
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,051 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
$126$209$328$498$776

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $776).

How the prices are spread

$100 – $128: 161 hospitals$100$128 – $164: 158 hospitals$164 – $209: 293 hospitals$164$209 – $266: 380 hospitals$266 – $340: 476 hospitals$266$340 – $434: 384 hospitals$434 – $554: 436 hospitals$434$554 – $706: 236 hospitals$706 – $902: 124 hospitals$706$902 – $1,151: 99 hospitals$902median $328price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,747 of 3,051 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$100$128161
$128$164158
$164$209293
$209$266380
$266$340476
$340$434384
$434$554436
$554$706236
$706$902124
$902$1,15199

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $328.

Alaska: median $874 across 14 hospitalsAK$874Maine: median $244 across 27 hospitalsME$244Vermont: median $307 across 12 hospitalsVT$307New Hampshire: median $397 across 21 hospitalsNH$397Washington: median $388 across 59 hospitalsWA$388Idaho: median $296 across 20 hospitalsID$296Montana: median $291 across 19 hospitalsMT$291North Dakota: median $419 across 14 hospitalsND$419Minnesota: median $308 across 85 hospitalsMN$308Illinois: median $402 across 123 hospitalsIL$402Wisconsin: median $338 across 99 hospitalsWI$338Michigan: median $295 across 91 hospitalsMI$295New York: median $288 across 109 hospitalsNY$288Massachusetts: median $459 across 54 hospitalsMA$459Oregon: median $359 across 47 hospitalsOR$359Nevada: median $441 across 19 hospitalsNV$441Wyoming: median $288 across 11 hospitalsWY$288South Dakota: median $506 across 23 hospitalsSD$506Iowa: median $306 across 79 hospitalsIA$306Indiana: median $297 across 90 hospitalsIN$297Ohio: median $376 across 138 hospitalsOH$376Pennsylvania: median $341 across 121 hospitalsPA$341New Jersey: median $114 across 43 hospitalsNJ$114Connecticut: median $379 across 22 hospitalsCT$379Rhode Island: median $207 across 10 hospitalsRI$207California: median $460 across 185 hospitalsCA$460Utah: median $483 across 39 hospitalsUT$483Colorado: median $360 across 65 hospitalsCO$360Nebraska: median $410 across 59 hospitalsNE$410Missouri: median $194 across 79 hospitalsMO$194Kentucky: median $314 across 57 hospitalsKY$314West Virginia: median $243 across 34 hospitalsWV$243Virginia: median $235 across 70 hospitalsVA$235Maryland: median $489 across 40 hospitalsMD$489Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $231 across 48 hospitalsAZ$231New Mexico: median $374 across 29 hospitalsNM$374Kansas: median $267 across 67 hospitalsKS$267Arkansas: median $177 across 31 hospitalsAR$177Tennessee: median $184 across 76 hospitalsTN$184North Carolina: median $270 across 92 hospitalsNC$270South Carolina: median $359 across 48 hospitalsSC$359Oklahoma: median $184 across 54 hospitalsOK$184Louisiana: median $205 across 50 hospitalsLA$205Mississippi: median $197 across 49 hospitalsMS$197Alabama: median $204 across 35 hospitalsAL$204Georgia: median $339 across 102 hospitalsGA$339Hawaii: median $355 across 17 hospitalsHI$355Texas: median $400 across 212 hospitalsTX$400Florida: median $666 across 156 hospitalsFL$666
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $328. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK14$874+167%$271 – $1,541
Florida FL156$666+103%$240 – $1,577
South Dakota SD23$506+55%$428 – $590
Maryland MD40$489+49%$351 – $625
Utah UT39$483+48%$295 – $605
California CA185$460+40%$282 – $893
Massachusetts MA54$459+40%$328 – $591
Nevada NV19$441+35%$174 – $648
North Dakota ND14$419+28%$302 – $486
Nebraska NE59$410+25%$295 – $544
Illinois IL123$402+23%$180 – $590
Texas TX212$400+22%$184 – $599
New Hampshire NH21$397+21%$212 – $720
Washington WA59$388+18%$206 – $546
Connecticut CT22$379+16%$284 – $419
Ohio OH138$376+15%$241 – $539
New Mexico NM29$374+14%$234 – $493
Colorado CO65$360+10%$245 – $481
Oregon OR47$359+9%$227 – $473
South Carolina SC48$359+9%$255 – $497
Hawaii HI17$355+8%$217 – $412
Pennsylvania PA121$341+4%$163 – $638
Georgia GA102$339+4%$202 – $597
Wisconsin WI99$338+3%$199 – $523
Kentucky KY57$314−4%$224 – $739
Minnesota MN85$308−6%$240 – $445
Vermont VT12$307−6%$201 – $681
Iowa IA79$306−7%$224 – $435
Indiana IN90$297−9%$201 – $382
Idaho ID20$296−10%$223 – $428
Michigan MI91$295−10%$183 – $449
Montana MT19$291−11%$237 – $440
New York NY109$288−12%$132 – $681
Wyoming WY11$288−12%$226 – $492
North Carolina NC92$270−18%$186 – $374
Kansas KS67$267−18%$168 – $449
Maine ME27$244−25%$143 – $493
West Virginia WV34$243−26%$185 – $585
Virginia VA70$235−28%$177 – $484
Arizona AZ48$231−29%$133 – $1,071
Rhode Island RI10$207−37%$154 – $416
Louisiana LA50$205−37%$142 – $379
Alabama AL35$204−38%$141 – $378
Mississippi MS49$197−40%$101 – $267
Missouri MO79$194−41%$148 – $371
Tennessee TN76$184−44%$99 – $429
Oklahoma OK54$184−44%$119 – $278
Arkansas AR31$177−46%$93 – $268
New Jersey NJ43$114−65%$110 – $484
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 $328.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,284$329$179 – $590
Children’s65$487$316 – $798
Critical access692$311$204 – $494
Ownership
For-profit441$458$204 – $1,163
Government502$293$176 – $480
Non-profit2,098$325$184 – $525
System affiliation
Part of a system2,524$332$185 – $567
Independent527$296$182 – $518

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$567
Median cash price$328
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

2,120 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $332 and the average of the middle 60% is $346; most fall between $194 and $542.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,120 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
$139$216$332$487$704

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($139 vs $704).

Of the 2,246 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,120 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 97 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,051 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,227 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,051
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded127
Hospitals that filed this code3,227

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 92611 Videoswallow Exam - St.

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, “Swallowing study with moving X-ray recording (CPT 92611) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92611-swallowing-study-with-moving-x-ray-recording