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

Scope swallowing study with throat sensation testing

CPT 92616the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope through the nose records both swallowing function and voice box sensation testing, with interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $330 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 538 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $342. Most fall between $147 and $515 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
538
States
48
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 538 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
$109$171$330$493$718

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $718).

How the prices are spread

$81 – $104: 18 hospitals$81$104 – $132: 46 hospitals$132 – $169: 34 hospitals$132$169 – $216: 56 hospitals$216 – $276: 36 hospitals$216$276 – $353: 63 hospitals$353 – $451: 84 hospitals$353$451 – $576: 95 hospitals$576 – $736: 30 hospitals$576$736 – $940: 24 hospitals$736median $330price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (486 of 538 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$81$10418
$104$13246
$132$16934
$169$21656
$216$27636
$276$35363
$353$45184
$451$57695
$576$73630
$736$94024

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $330.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $324 across 13 hospitalsMN$324Illinois: median $338 across 23 hospitalsIL$338Wisconsin: median $171 across 17 hospitalsWI$171Michigan: median $171 across 21 hospitalsMI$171New York: median $191 across 26 hospitalsNY$191Massachusetts: median $525 across 12 hospitalsMA$525Oregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $471 across 15 hospitalsIA$471Indiana: median $198 across 19 hospitalsIN$198Ohio: median $437 across 14 hospitalsOH$437Pennsylvania: median $94 across 26 hospitalsPA$94New Jersey: median $128 across 13 hospitalsNJ$128Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $515 across 41 hospitalsCA$515Utah: median $316 across 24 hospitalsUT$316Colorado: median $255 across 17 hospitalsCO$255Nebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $252 across 12 hospitalsMO$252Kentucky: median $400 across 12 hospitalsKY$400West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $458 across 18 hospitalsVA$458Maryland: median $887 across 13 hospitalsMD$887Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $183 across 10 hospitalsTN$183North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $190 across 13 hospitalsOK$190Louisiana: median $274 across 14 hospitalsLA$274Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $421 across 17 hospitalsGA$421Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $432 across 22 hospitalsTX$432Florida: median $339 across 31 hospitalsFL$339
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $330. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD13$887+169%$655 – $1,124
Massachusetts MA12$525+59%$466 – $812
California CA41$515+56%$394 – $515
Iowa IA15$471+43%$447 – $471
Virginia VA18$458+38%$434 – $471
Ohio OH14$437+32%$247 – $489
Texas TX22$432+31%$223 – $455
Georgia GA17$421+27%$162 – $937
Kentucky KY12$400+21%$400 – $613
Florida FL31$339+3%$245 – $506
Illinois IL23$338+2%$187 – $471
Minnesota MN13$324−2%$212 – $324
Utah UT24$316−4%$316 – $396
Louisiana LA14$274−17%$65 – $375
Colorado CO17$255−23%$220 – $374
Missouri MO12$252−24%$152 – $452
Indiana IN19$198−40%$146 – $287
New York NY26$191−42%$108 – $729
Oklahoma OK13$190−42%$190 – $198
Tennessee TN10$183−45%$125 – $341
Michigan MI21$171−48%$112 – $422
Wisconsin WI17$171−48%$171 – $247
New Jersey NJ13$128−61%$128 – $370
Pennsylvania PA26$94−71%$64 – $146
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $330.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care440$338$141 – $515
Children’s26$402$316 – $514
Critical access72$295$171 – $503
Ownership
For-profit54$328$162 – $514
Government73$363$138 – $611
Non-profit411$328$146 – $515
System affiliation
Part of a system463$333$146 – $515
Independent75$330$152 – $533

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$578
Median cash price$330
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

366 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $363 and the average of the middle 60% is $363; most fall between $179 and $515.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 366 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
$149$190$363$506$729

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($149 vs $729).

Of the 401 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 366 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 28 a list price only.

How complete is this

538 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 574 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted538
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code574

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 Ndsc Eval Swlng&Laryn Sens 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, “Scope swallowing study with throat sensation testing (CPT 92616) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92616-scope-swallowing-study-with-throat-sensation-testing