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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures on ear

Hearing evaluation for implanted hearing device, first hour

CPT 92626the billing code this page is about

Testing of how well a person hears to judge suitability for a surgically implanted hearing device, or to check how they hear with one already in place; this code covers the first hour of the evaluation.

Hospitals typically charge $239 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 828 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $248. Most fall between $143 and $375 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
828
States
50
Filings dated
Jul 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 828 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$159$239$354$505

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($105 vs $505).

How the prices are spread

$76 – $94: 32 hospitals$76$94 – $117: 23 hospitals$117 – $146: 86 hospitals$117$146 – $182: 85 hospitals$182 – $226: 116 hospitals$182$226 – $281: 118 hospitals$281 – $349: 105 hospitals$281$349 – $434: 107 hospitals$434 – $540: 51 hospitals$434$540 – $672: 35 hospitals$540median $239price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (758 of 828 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$76$9432
$94$11723
$117$14686
$146$18285
$182$226116
$226$281118
$281$349105
$349$434107
$434$54051
$540$67235

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$239
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.82×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $239.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital 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: median $333 across 16 hospitalsWA$333Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $277 across 25 hospitalsMN$277Illinois: median $230 across 40 hospitalsIL$230Wisconsin: median $259 across 39 hospitalsWI$259Michigan: median $260 across 28 hospitalsMI$260New York: median $275 across 48 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $354 across 13 hospitalsMA$354Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $202 across 17 hospitalsIA$202Indiana: median $294 across 31 hospitalsIN$294Ohio: median $281 across 43 hospitalsOH$281Pennsylvania: median $152 across 48 hospitalsPA$152New Jersey: median $184 across 29 hospitalsNJ$184Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $382 across 61 hospitalsCA$382Utah: median $179 across 23 hospitalsUT$179Colorado: median $112 across 14 hospitalsCO$112Nebraska: median $212 across 11 hospitalsNE$212Missouri: median $189 across 10 hospitalsMO$189Kentucky: median $294 across 11 hospitalsKY$294West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $234 across 11 hospitalsVA$234Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $164 across 16 hospitalsTN$164North Carolina: median $197 across 18 hospitalsNC$197South Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $145 across 19 hospitalsOK$145Louisiana: median $109 across 16 hospitalsLA$109Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $192 across 13 hospitalsAL$192Georgia: median $349 across 16 hospitalsGA$349Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $351 across 51 hospitalsTX$351Florida: median $324 across 37 hospitalsFL$324
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $239. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA61$382+60%$259 – $672
Massachusetts MA13$354+48%$328 – $558
Texas TX51$351+47%$197 – $366
Georgia GA16$349+46%$244 – $453
Washington WA16$333+39%$278 – $397
Florida FL37$324+36%$245 – $443
Indiana IN31$294+23%$167 – $389
Kentucky KY11$294+23%$125 – $294
Ohio OH43$281+18%$219 – $407
Minnesota MN25$277+16%$239 – $291
New York NY48$275+15%$169 – $399
Michigan MI28$260+9%$173 – $279
Wisconsin WI39$259+8%$118 – $260
Virginia VA11$234−2%$234 – $245
Illinois IL40$230−4%$101 – $431
Nebraska NE11$212−11%$161 – $274
Iowa IA17$202−16%$134 – $202
North Carolina NC18$197−18%$137 – $242
Alabama AL13$192−20%$122 – $505
Missouri MO10$189−21%$125 – $205
New Jersey NJ29$184−23%$171 – $209
Utah UT23$179−25%$159 – $199
Tennessee TN16$164−31%$89 – $299
Pennsylvania PA48$152−36%$123 – $420
Oklahoma OK19$145−39%$145 – $319
Colorado CO14$112−53%$81 – $275
Louisiana LA16$109−54%$82 – $201
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $239.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care666$234$139 – $371
Children’s47$259$190 – $517
Critical access114$260$159 – $366
Ownership
For-profit57$234$115 – $364
Government111$212$137 – $382
Non-profit659$243$145 – $384
System affiliation
Part of a system708$245$145 – $375
Independent120$218$131 – $370

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$408
Median cash price$239
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

573 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $253 and the average of the middle 60% is $260; most fall between $145 and $397.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 573 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$159$253$366$505

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $505).

Of the 597 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 573 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

828 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 849 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted828
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code849

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 ear family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Eval Aud Funcj Cand/Po Surg Implt Dev 1st Hr.

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, “Hearing evaluation for implanted hearing device, first hour (CPT 92626) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92626-hearing-evaluation-for-implanted-hearing-device-first-hour