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

Reading of a scope swallowing study only

CPT 92613the billing code this page is about

Interpretation and written report of a recorded flexible endoscopic swallowing study, without performing the scope procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $78 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 192 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $88. Most fall between $45 and $178 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
192
States
42
Filings dated
Sep 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 192 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
$35$50$78$140$286

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $286).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $36: 16 hospitals$27$36 – $49: 17 hospitals$49 – $67: 23 hospitals$49$67 – $91: 49 hospitals$91 – $123: 21 hospitals$91$123 – $167: 15 hospitals$167 – $228: 18 hospitals$167$228 – $309: 8 hospitals$309 – $421: 3 hospitals$309$421 – $572: 5 hospitals$421median $78price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (175 of 192 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$3616
$36$4917
$49$6723
$67$9149
$91$12321
$123$16715
$167$22818
$228$3098
$309$4213
$421$5725

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $78.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $71 across 19 hospitalsIL$71Wisconsin: median $52 across 11 hospitalsWI$52Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $85 across 14 hospitalsIA$85Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $23 across 11 hospitalsPA$23New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $72 across 12 hospitalsOK$72Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $78. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Iowa IA14$85+9%$85 – $85
Oklahoma OK12$72−7%$72 – $72
Illinois IL19$71−8%$36 – $85
Wisconsin WI11$52−33%$50 – $63
Pennsylvania PA11$23−70%$22 – $28
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $78.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care138$72$42 – $137
Children’s27$200$140 – $356
Critical access27$71$45 – $117
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government40$81$50 – $137
Non-profit143$77$45 – $185
System affiliation
Part of a system154$75$42 – $176
Independent38$105$56 – $214

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$122
Median cash price$78
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

108 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $80 and the average of the middle 60% is $84; most fall between $50 and $155.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 108 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
$36$56$80$117$312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $312).

Of the 125 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 108 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 2 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

192 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 229 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted192
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code229

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 5, 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 I&R.

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, “Reading of a scope swallowing study only (CPT 92613) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92613-reading-of-a-scope-swallowing-study-only