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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Brain wave hearing threshold test at several pitches

CPT 92652the billing code this page is about

Recording of the brain's electrical response to tones at multiple frequencies to estimate the softest sounds a person can hear, with interpretation and report.

Hospitals typically charge $527 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,173 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $536. Most fall between $253 and $873 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,173
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,173 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
$176$287$527$841$1,160

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $1,160).

How the prices are spread

$128 – $164: 56 hospitals$128$164 – $211: 38 hospitals$211 – $270: 118 hospitals$211$270 – $347: 106 hospitals$347 – $445: 139 hospitals$347$445 – $571: 119 hospitals$571 – $732: 178 hospitals$571$732 – $939: 182 hospitals$939 – $1,204: 76 hospitals$939$1,204 – $1,544: 48 hospitals$1,204median $527price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,060 of 1,173 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$128$16456
$164$21138
$211$270118
$270$347106
$347$445139
$445$571119
$571$732178
$732$939182
$939$1,20476
$1,204$1,54448

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$527
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $527.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $546 across 22 hospitalsWA$546Idaho: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $342 across 43 hospitalsMN$342Illinois: median $857 across 42 hospitalsIL$857Wisconsin: median $250 across 57 hospitalsWI$250Michigan: median $310 across 55 hospitalsMI$310New York: median $430 across 60 hospitalsNY$430Massachusetts: median $720 across 25 hospitalsMA$720Oregon: median $590 across 15 hospitalsOR$590Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $538 across 17 hospitalsIA$538Indiana: median $641 across 44 hospitalsIN$641Ohio: median $754 across 57 hospitalsOH$754Pennsylvania: median $621 across 49 hospitalsPA$621New Jersey: median $414 across 39 hospitalsNJ$414Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $770 across 86 hospitalsCA$770Utah: median $1,002 across 11 hospitalsUT$1,002Colorado: median $291 across 12 hospitalsCO$291Nebraska: median $310 across 11 hospitalsNE$310Missouri: median $326 across 28 hospitalsMO$326Kentucky: median $452 across 14 hospitalsKY$452West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $509 across 28 hospitalsVA$509Maryland: 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 $486 across 21 hospitalsAZ$486New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $144 across 25 hospitalsTN$144North Carolina: median $505 across 45 hospitalsNC$505South Carolina: median $675 across 20 hospitalsSC$675Oklahoma: median $233 across 24 hospitalsOK$233Louisiana: median $248 across 23 hospitalsLA$248Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $586 across 47 hospitalsGA$586Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $711 across 85 hospitalsTX$711Florida: median $864 across 57 hospitalsFL$864
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $527. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT11$1,002+90%$956 – $1,062
Florida FL57$864+64%$517 – $1,183
Illinois IL42$857+63%$336 – $1,062
California CA86$770+46%$564 – $921
Ohio OH57$754+43%$412 – $867
Massachusetts MA25$720+37%$387 – $992
Texas TX85$711+35%$501 – $1,285
South Carolina SC20$675+28%$567 – $675
Indiana IN44$641+22%$301 – $867
Pennsylvania PA49$621+18%$261 – $1,156
Oregon OR15$590+12%$211 – $665
Georgia GA47$586+11%$379 – $635
Washington WA22$546+4%$430 – $764
Iowa IA17$538+2%$270 – $572
Virginia VA28$509−3%$140 – $917
North Carolina NC45$505−4%$195 – $844
Arizona AZ21$486−8%$265 – $815
Kentucky KY14$452−14%$314 – $1,250
New York NY60$430−18%$270 – $689
New Jersey NJ39$414−21%$345 – $988
Minnesota MN43$342−35%$254 – $614
Missouri MO28$326−38%$272 – $775
Nebraska NE11$310−41%$178 – $441
Michigan MI55$310−41%$128 – $774
Colorado CO12$291−45%$226 – $527
Wisconsin WI57$250−52%$143 – $613
Louisiana LA23$248−53%$161 – $652
Oklahoma OK24$233−56%$233 – $635
Tennessee TN25$144−73%$126 – $284
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $527.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care989$538$255 – $867
Children’s54$867$448 – $1,568
Critical access126$374$250 – $774
Ownership
For-profit84$586$301 – $939
Government145$449$254 – $899
Non-profit940$528$250 – $867
System affiliation
Part of a system1,033$542$253 – $867
Independent140$423$250 – $956

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$961
Median cash price$527
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

886 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $586 and the average of the middle 60% is $571; most fall between $254 and $895.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 886 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
$194$294$586$846$1,206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($194 vs $1,206).

Of the 925 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 886 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,173 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,222 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,173
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code1,222

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 Threshold Estimation Mlt Frequencies 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, “Brain wave hearing threshold test at several pitches (CPT 92652) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92652-brain-wave-hearing-threshold-test-at-several-pitches