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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Hearing test using brain wave responses, with report

CPT 92651the billing code this page is about

Recording of the brain's electrical response to broad-range sounds to determine hearing status, including a professional interpretation and written report.

Hospitals typically charge $283 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 988 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $298. Most fall between $148 and $498 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
988
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 988 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$169$283$462$672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $672).

How the prices are spread

$83 – $106: 45 hospitals$83$106 – $136: 80 hospitals$136 – $174: 89 hospitals$136$174 – $223: 125 hospitals$223 – $285: 109 hospitals$223$285 – $365: 119 hospitals$365 – $468: 126 hospitals$365$468 – $599: 103 hospitals$599 – $768: 71 hospitals$599$768 – $983: 23 hospitals$768median $283price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (890 of 988 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$83$10645
$106$13680
$136$17489
$174$223125
$223$285109
$285$365119
$365$468126
$468$599103
$599$76871
$768$98323

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$283
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.28×

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 $283.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $274 across 10 hospitalsWA$274Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $205 across 35 hospitalsMN$205Illinois: median $337 across 29 hospitalsIL$337Wisconsin: median $148 across 65 hospitalsWI$148Michigan: median $187 across 44 hospitalsMI$187New York: median $366 across 58 hospitalsNY$366Massachusetts: median $407 across 16 hospitalsMA$407Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $204 across 17 hospitalsIA$204Indiana: median $215 across 40 hospitalsIN$215Ohio: median $341 across 42 hospitalsOH$341Pennsylvania: median $337 across 35 hospitalsPA$337New Jersey: median $345 across 36 hospitalsNJ$345Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $586 across 74 hospitalsCA$586Utah: median $442 across 13 hospitalsUT$442Colorado: median $230 across 19 hospitalsCO$230Nebraska: median $163 across 10 hospitalsNE$163Missouri: median $245 across 18 hospitalsMO$245Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $136 across 14 hospitalsWV$136Virginia: median $269 across 16 hospitalsVA$269Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $309 across 11 hospitalsAZ$309New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $90 across 24 hospitalsTN$90North Carolina: median $158 across 28 hospitalsNC$158South Carolina: median $435 across 22 hospitalsSC$435Oklahoma: median $176 across 18 hospitalsOK$176Louisiana: median $109 across 21 hospitalsLA$109Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $230 across 13 hospitalsAL$230Georgia: median $241 across 39 hospitalsGA$241Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $294 across 70 hospitalsTX$294Florida: median $456 across 47 hospitalsFL$456
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $283. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA74$586+107%$308 – $672
Florida FL47$456+61%$390 – $636
Utah UT13$442+56%$254 – $471
South Carolina SC22$435+54%$253 – $451
Massachusetts MA16$407+44%$151 – $505
New York NY58$366+30%$270 – $485
New Jersey NJ36$345+22%$250 – $675
Ohio OH42$341+21%$234 – $569
Illinois IL29$337+19%$204 – $746
Pennsylvania PA35$337+19%$244 – $707
Arizona AZ11$309+9%$107 – $393
Texas TX70$294+4%$123 – $435
Washington WA10$274−3%$157 – $559
Virginia VA16$269−5%$66 – $311
Missouri MO18$245−13%$178 – $951
Georgia GA39$241−15%$169 – $374
Colorado CO19$230−19%$178 – $424
Alabama AL13$230−19%$104 – $409
Indiana IN40$215−24%$159 – $337
Minnesota MN35$205−28%$162 – $476
Iowa IA17$204−28%$204 – $1,084
Michigan MI44$187−34%$98 – $476
Oklahoma OK18$176−38%$176 – $635
Nebraska NE10$163−42%$135 – $279
North Carolina NC28$158−44%$126 – $262
Wisconsin WI65$148−48%$129 – $469
West Virginia WV14$136−52%$103 – $314
Louisiana LA21$109−61%$78 – $237
Tennessee TN24$90−68%$66 – $215
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $283.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care818$279$146 – $498
Children’s54$447$256 – $840
Critical access114$241$129 – $476
Ownership
For-profit76$241$140 – $521
Government128$256$126 – $458
Non-profit782$294$148 – $498
System affiliation
Part of a system853$279$144 – $498
Independent135$304$173 – $582

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$507
Median cash price$283
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

716 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $294 and the average of the middle 60% is $307; most fall between $148 and $498.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 716 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
$120$169$294$476$672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($120 vs $672).

Of the 735 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 716 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

988 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,023 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted988
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code1,023

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 Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Aep Hearing Status Deter Broadband Stimuli 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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Hearing test using brain wave responses, with report (CPT 92651) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92651-hearing-test-using-brain-wave-responses-with-report