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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Turning on an implanted phrenic nerve breathing stimulator

CPT 93150the billing code this page is about

The initial activation of an implanted phrenic nerve stimulator used for central sleep apnea, including all interrogation and programming done at that visit.

Hospitals typically charge $226 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 217 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $223. Most fall between $97 and $458 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
217
States
31
Filings dated
Mar 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 217 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
$62$108$226$411$762

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($62 vs $762).

How the prices are spread

$44 – $60: 11 hospitals$44$60 – $81: 8 hospitals$81 – $110: 45 hospitals$81$110 – $149: 19 hospitals$149 – $203: 10 hospitals$149$203 – $275: 38 hospitals$275 – $374: 10 hospitals$275$374 – $508: 34 hospitals$508 – $690: 8 hospitals$508$690 – $937: 14 hospitals$690median $226price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (197 of 217 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$44$6011
$60$818
$81$11045
$110$14919
$149$20310
$203$27538
$275$37410
$374$50834
$508$6908
$690$93714

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$97
Median cash price$226
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.3×

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 $226.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $109 across 20 hospitalsNY$109Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $229 across 13 hospitalsIA$229Indiana: median $59 across 13 hospitalsIN$59Ohio: median $108 across 30 hospitalsOH$108Pennsylvania: median $27 across 12 hospitalsPA$27New Jersey: median $102 across 13 hospitalsNJ$102Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $226 across 28 hospitalsCA$226Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $762 across 10 hospitalsNC$762South Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTXFlorida: median $514 across 13 hospitalsFL$514
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $226. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
North Carolina NC10$762+237%$762 – $762
Florida FL13$514+127%$267 – $12,762
Iowa IA13$229+1%$229 – $229
California CA28$2260%$226 – $926
New York NY20$109−52%$109 – $113
Ohio OH30$108−52%$91 – $411
New Jersey NJ13$102−55%$102 – $176
Indiana IN13$59−74%$52 – $84
Pennsylvania PA12$27−88%$26 – $104
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $226.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care196$226$102 – $462
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit8fewer than 20 hospitals
Government28$179$109 – $762
Non-profit181$226$92 – $411
System affiliation
Part of a system200$226$102 – $462
Independent17fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$368
Median cash price$226
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

142 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $229 and the average of the middle 60% is $257; most fall between $108 and $458.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 142 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
$90$130$229$411$762

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($90 vs $762).

Of the 147 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 142 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

217 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 227 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted217
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code227

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as THERAPY ACTIVATION IPNSS.

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, “Turning on an implanted phrenic nerve breathing stimulator (CPT 93150) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-93150-turning-on-an-implanted-phrenic-nerve-breathing-stimulator