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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Automated newborn hearing screening test

CPT 92650the billing code this page is about

Quick pass-or-refer hearing screen that records the ear and nerve response to sound, with the result read automatically by the equipment rather than interpreted by hand.

Hospitals typically charge $210 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,472 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $217. Most fall between $85 and $410 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,472
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 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 1,472 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
$54$102$210$360$613

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $613).

How the prices are spread

$34 – $47: 37 hospitals$34$47 – $65: 89 hospitals$65 – $89: 125 hospitals$65$89 – $123: 119 hospitals$123 – $169: 168 hospitals$123$169 – $234: 209 hospitals$234 – $322: 220 hospitals$234$322 – $444: 171 hospitals$444 – $613: 114 hospitals$444$613 – $846: 80 hospitals$613median $210price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,332 of 1,472 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$34$4737
$47$6589
$65$89125
$89$123119
$123$169168
$169$234209
$234$322220
$322$444171
$444$613114
$613$84680

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $210.

Alaska: median $312 across 13 hospitalsAK$312Maine: median $98 across 12 hospitalsME$98Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $257 across 12 hospitalsNH$257Washington: median $259 across 28 hospitalsWA$259Idaho: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $197 across 59 hospitalsMN$197Illinois: median $252 across 29 hospitalsIL$252Wisconsin: median $221 across 80 hospitalsWI$221Michigan: median $136 across 57 hospitalsMI$136New York: median $181 across 47 hospitalsNY$181Massachusetts: median $316 across 26 hospitalsMA$316Oregon: median $144 across 30 hospitalsOR$144Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $116 across 10 hospitalsSD$116Iowa: median $292 across 29 hospitalsIA$292Indiana: median $160 across 58 hospitalsIN$160Ohio: median $310 across 91 hospitalsOH$310Pennsylvania: median $282 across 44 hospitalsPA$282New Jersey: median $90 across 21 hospitalsNJ$90Connecticut: median $256 across 10 hospitalsCT$256Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $331 across 124 hospitalsCA$331Utah: median $244 across 28 hospitalsUT$244Colorado: median $160 across 35 hospitalsCO$160Nebraska: median $179 across 26 hospitalsNE$179Missouri: median $176 across 29 hospitalsMO$176Kentucky: median $158 across 28 hospitalsKY$158West Virginia: median $232 across 13 hospitalsWV$232Virginia: median $151 across 30 hospitalsVA$151Maryland: median $141 across 14 hospitalsMD$141Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $272 across 12 hospitalsAZ$272New Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $168 across 18 hospitalsKS$168Arkansas: median $172 across 14 hospitalsAR$172Tennessee: median $78 across 37 hospitalsTN$78North Carolina: median $155 across 62 hospitalsNC$155South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $49 across 20 hospitalsOK$49Louisiana: median $98 across 23 hospitalsLA$98Mississippi: median $97 across 22 hospitalsMS$97Alabama: median $459 across 14 hospitalsAL$459Georgia: median $234 across 56 hospitalsGA$234Hawaii: median $160 across 10 hospitalsHI$160Texas: median $330 across 80 hospitalsTX$330Florida: median $390 across 65 hospitalsFL$390
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $210. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alabama AL14$459+119%$95 – $560
Florida FL65$390+86%$56 – $1,070
California CA124$331+58%$82 – $636
Texas TX80$330+57%$124 – $396
Massachusetts MA26$316+51%$180 – $497
Alaska AK13$312+49%$81 – $585
Ohio OH91$310+48%$94 – $434
Iowa IA29$292+39%$67 – $466
Pennsylvania PA44$282+34%$108 – $633
Arizona AZ12$272+30%$178 – $356
Washington WA28$259+24%$148 – $281
New Hampshire NH12$257+23%$197 – $370
Connecticut CT10$256+22%$243 – $482
Illinois IL29$252+20%$118 – $328
Utah UT28$244+16%$244 – $442
Georgia GA56$234+12%$166 – $481
West Virginia WV13$232+11%$196 – $291
Wisconsin WI80$221+5%$85 – $448
Minnesota MN59$197−6%$72 – $256
New York NY47$181−14%$57 – $483
Nebraska NE26$179−15%$106 – $260
Missouri MO29$176−16%$132 – $235
Arkansas AR14$172−18%$55 – $208
Kansas KS18$168−20%$64 – $796
Indiana IN58$160−24%$37 – $240
Colorado CO35$160−24%$102 – $284
Hawaii HI10$160−24%$29 – $348
Kentucky KY28$158−24%$70 – $846
North Carolina NC62$155−26%$94 – $275
Virginia VA30$151−28%$64 – $295
Oregon OR30$144−31%$48 – $230
Maryland MD14$141−33%$72 – $250
Michigan MI57$136−35%$31 – $308
South Dakota SD10$116−45%$116 – $305
Maine ME12$98−53%$77 – $140
Louisiana LA23$98−53%$32 – $147
Mississippi MS22$97−54%$39 – $122
New Jersey NJ21$90−57%$69 – $377
Tennessee TN37$78−63%$64 – $146
Oklahoma OK20$49−77%$49 – $402
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not 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 $210.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,168$209$83 – $442
Children’s47$313$172 – $500
Critical access251$207$81 – $308
Ownership
For-profit120$179$66 – $360
Government205$183$71 – $349
Non-profit1,141$221$86 – $424
System affiliation
Part of a system1,273$212$85 – $416
Independent199$201$81 – $356

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$359
Median cash price$210
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

1,161 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $221 and the average of the middle 60% is $228; most fall between $88 and $424.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,161 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
$57$111$221$377$632

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $632).

Of the 1,213 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,161 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 41 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,472 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (37%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,582 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,472
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code1,582

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.

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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, “Automated newborn hearing screening test (CPT 92650) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92650-automated-newborn-hearing-screening-test