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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Brain wave test of hearing nerve and brainstem pathways

CPT 92653the billing code this page is about

Recording of electrical responses along the hearing nerve and brainstem to look for a problem in those pathways, with interpretation and written report.

Hospitals typically charge $496 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,126 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $507. Most fall between $247 and $848 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,126
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 1,126 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
$148$271$496$783$1,156

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $1,156).

How the prices are spread

$119 – $155: 66 hospitals$119$155 – $200: 48 hospitals$200 – $259: 83 hospitals$200$259 – $336: 121 hospitals$336 – $434: 137 hospitals$336$434 – $562: 120 hospitals$562 – $728: 186 hospitals$562$728 – $943: 134 hospitals$943 – $1,221: 67 hospitals$943$1,221 – $1,580: 53 hospitals$1,221median $496price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,015 of 1,126 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$119$15566
$155$20048
$200$25983
$259$336121
$336$434137
$434$562120
$562$728186
$728$943134
$943$1,22167
$1,221$1,58053

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$496
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $496.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $494 across 18 hospitalsWA$494Idaho: 6 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 $357 across 43 hospitalsMN$357Illinois: median $612 across 35 hospitalsIL$612Wisconsin: median $257 across 56 hospitalsWI$257Michigan: median $387 across 54 hospitalsMI$387New York: median $374 across 47 hospitalsNY$374Massachusetts: median $698 across 19 hospitalsMA$698Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $538 across 16 hospitalsIA$538Indiana: median $475 across 35 hospitalsIN$475Ohio: median $528 across 59 hospitalsOH$528Pennsylvania: median $414 across 72 hospitalsPA$414New Jersey: median $367 across 36 hospitalsNJ$367Connecticut: 7 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 $673 across 97 hospitalsCA$673Utah: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $401 across 16 hospitalsCO$401Nebraska: median $179 across 10 hospitalsNE$179Missouri: median $279 across 30 hospitalsMO$279Kentucky: median $1,250 across 15 hospitalsKY$1,250West Virginia: median $351 across 10 hospitalsWV$351Virginia: median $747 across 23 hospitalsVA$747Maryland: median $486 across 13 hospitalsMD$486Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $304 across 17 hospitalsAZ$304New 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $177 across 20 hospitalsTN$177North Carolina: median $505 across 26 hospitalsNC$505South Carolina: median $675 across 29 hospitalsSC$675Oklahoma: median $302 across 23 hospitalsOK$302Louisiana: median $216 across 21 hospitalsLA$216Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $560 across 11 hospitalsAL$560Georgia: median $379 across 31 hospitalsGA$379Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $711 across 82 hospitalsTX$711Florida: median $667 across 61 hospitalsFL$667
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $496. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY15$1,250+152%$339 – $1,631
Virginia VA23$747+50%$509 – $917
Texas TX82$711+43%$301 – $839
Massachusetts MA19$698+41%$338 – $889
South Carolina SC29$675+36%$410 – $953
California CA97$673+36%$461 – $1,098
Florida FL61$667+34%$517 – $1,013
Illinois IL35$612+23%$320 – $1,055
Alabama AL11$560+13%$241 – $917
Iowa IA16$538+8%$198 – $571
Ohio OH59$528+6%$370 – $1,472
North Carolina NC26$505+2%$251 – $925
Washington WA18$494−1%$347 – $624
Maryland MD13$486−2%$127 – $1,354
Indiana IN35$475−4%$301 – $700
Pennsylvania PA72$414−17%$244 – $1,085
Colorado CO16$401−19%$219 – $696
Michigan MI54$387−22%$94 – $860
Georgia GA31$379−24%$271 – $1,580
New York NY47$374−25%$270 – $689
New Jersey NJ36$367−26%$330 – $542
Minnesota MN43$357−28%$259 – $614
West Virginia WV10$351−29%$331 – $475
Arizona AZ17$304−39%$253 – $643
Oklahoma OK23$302−39%$172 – $623
Missouri MO30$279−44%$193 – $508
Wisconsin WI56$257−48%$138 – $613
Louisiana LA21$216−57%$161 – $659
Nebraska NE10$179−64%$131 – $310
Tennessee TN20$177−64%$126 – $270
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not 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 AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $496.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care963$517$245 – $860
Children’s50$818$332 – $1,472
Critical access109$320$201 – $601
Ownership
For-profit80$567$301 – $1,235
Government126$383$242 – $846
Non-profit916$502$244 – $846
System affiliation
Part of a system995$511$246 – $846
Independent131$413$259 – $877

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$906
Median cash price$496
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

862 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $536 and the average of the middle 60% is $551; most fall between $259 and $882.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 862 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
$177$301$536$838$1,232

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($177 vs $1,232).

Of the 897 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 862 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 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,126 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,170 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,126
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 — excluded30
Hospitals that filed this code1,170

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 Neurodiagnostic Interpretation and Report.

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 test of hearing nerve and brainstem pathways (CPT 92653) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92653-brain-wave-test-of-hearing-nerve-and-brainstem-pathways