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

Swallowing study with a flexible scope through the nose

CPT 92612the billing code this page is about

A thin flexible scope passed through the nose records swallowing on video; this code covers the procedure with interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $349 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,908 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $371. Most fall between $183 and $620 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,908
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,908 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
$102$213$349$572$870

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($102 vs $870).

How the prices are spread

$76 – $100: 80 hospitals$76$100 – $132: 76 hospitals$132 – $173: 105 hospitals$132$173 – $229: 188 hospitals$229 – $301: 252 hospitals$229$301 – $397: 274 hospitals$397 – $523: 274 hospitals$397$523 – $690: 274 hospitals$690 – $909: 121 hospitals$690$909 – $1,198: 82 hospitals$909median $349price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,726 of 1,908 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$76$10080
$100$13276
$132$173105
$173$229188
$229$301252
$301$397274
$397$523274
$523$690274
$690$909121
$909$1,19882

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $349.

Alaska: median $689 across 12 hospitalsAK$689Maine: median $187 across 14 hospitalsME$187Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $336 across 40 hospitalsWA$336Idaho: median $396 across 14 hospitalsID$396Montana: median $294 across 12 hospitalsMT$294North Dakota: median $514 across 12 hospitalsND$514Minnesota: median $363 across 47 hospitalsMN$363Illinois: median $402 across 62 hospitalsIL$402Wisconsin: median $289 across 58 hospitalsWI$289Michigan: median $369 across 59 hospitalsMI$369New York: median $432 across 69 hospitalsNY$432Massachusetts: median $336 across 23 hospitalsMA$336Oregon: median $455 across 38 hospitalsOR$455Nevada: median $334 across 13 hospitalsNV$334Wyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $433 across 38 hospitalsIA$433Indiana: median $227 across 54 hospitalsIN$227Ohio: median $419 across 97 hospitalsOH$419Pennsylvania: median $152 across 72 hospitalsPA$152New Jersey: median $86 across 36 hospitalsNJ$86Connecticut: median $465 across 20 hospitalsCT$465Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $488 across 119 hospitalsCA$488Utah: median $610 across 25 hospitalsUT$610Colorado: median $313 across 50 hospitalsCO$313Nebraska: median $464 across 24 hospitalsNE$464Missouri: median $215 across 45 hospitalsMO$215Kentucky: median $365 across 35 hospitalsKY$365West Virginia: median $302 across 11 hospitalsWV$302Virginia: median $349 across 50 hospitalsVA$349Maryland: median $886 across 32 hospitalsMD$886Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $208 across 34 hospitalsAZ$208New Mexico: median $386 across 15 hospitalsNM$386Kansas: median $256 across 31 hospitalsKS$256Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $167 across 45 hospitalsTN$167North Carolina: median $330 across 76 hospitalsNC$330South Carolina: median $465 across 39 hospitalsSC$465Oklahoma: median $175 across 29 hospitalsOK$175Louisiana: median $221 across 27 hospitalsLA$221Mississippi: median $255 across 22 hospitalsMS$255Alabama: median $270 across 23 hospitalsAL$270Georgia: median $307 across 79 hospitalsGA$307Hawaii: median $503 across 14 hospitalsHI$503Texas: median $433 across 145 hospitalsTX$433Florida: median $439 across 111 hospitalsFL$439
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $349. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD32$886+154%$668 – $1,140
Alaska AK12$689+98%$445 – $1,030
Utah UT25$610+75%$563 – $610
North Dakota ND12$514+47%$388 – $582
Hawaii HI14$503+44%$281 – $633
California CA119$488+40%$292 – $683
Connecticut CT20$465+33%$324 – $834
South Carolina SC39$465+33%$275 – $697
Nebraska NE24$464+33%$151 – $600
Oregon OR38$455+30%$264 – $564
Florida FL111$439+26%$261 – $991
Texas TX145$433+24%$199 – $614
Iowa IA38$433+24%$247 – $634
New York NY69$432+24%$95 – $683
Ohio OH97$419+20%$249 – $662
Illinois IL62$402+15%$200 – $655
Idaho ID14$396+14%$292 – $474
New Mexico NM15$386+11%$190 – $507
Michigan MI59$369+6%$224 – $556
Kentucky KY35$365+5%$252 – $820
Minnesota MN47$363+4%$308 – $511
Virginia VA50$3490%$220 – $440
Massachusetts MA23$336−4%$270 – $525
Washington WA40$336−4%$197 – $568
Nevada NV13$334−4%$213 – $1,681
North Carolina NC76$330−5%$236 – $580
Colorado CO50$313−10%$225 – $632
Georgia GA79$307−12%$213 – $356
West Virginia WV11$302−13%$143 – $432
Montana MT12$294−16%$202 – $471
Wisconsin WI58$289−17%$104 – $513
Alabama AL23$270−23%$141 – $424
Kansas KS31$256−27%$87 – $576
Mississippi MS22$255−27%$145 – $279
Indiana IN54$227−35%$178 – $332
Louisiana LA27$221−37%$62 – $489
Missouri MO45$215−38%$138 – $376
Arizona AZ34$208−40%$171 – $1,375
Maine ME14$187−46%$64 – $610
Oklahoma OK29$175−50%$60 – $361
Tennessee TN45$167−52%$96 – $300
Pennsylvania PA72$152−56%$64 – $753
New Jersey NJ36$86−75%$78 – $442
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $349.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,541$349$178 – $632
Children’s53$377$235 – $813
Critical access306$363$205 – $574
Ownership
For-profit225$448$216 – $1,076
Government278$331$178 – $581
Non-profit1,397$349$181 – $607
System affiliation
Part of a system1,655$356$183 – $620
Independent253$334$180 – $617

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$610
Median cash price$349
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

1,397 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $372 and the average of the middle 60% is $379; most fall between $199 and $594.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,397 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
$130$225$372$556$719

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($130 vs $719).

Of the 1,462 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,397 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 51 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,908 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,007 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,908
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code2,007

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 Flexible Endoscopic Eval Swallow C/V Rec.

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 a flexible scope through the nose (CPT 92612) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92612-swallowing-study-with-a-flexible-scope-through-the-nose