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Procedure price report · Respiratory intubation and mechanical ventilation

Ventilator management in the hospital, first day

CPT 94002the billing code this page is about

Covers the doctor's management of a breathing machine for a hospital inpatient on the first day of ventilator support; billed once for that day.

Hospitals typically charge $1,092 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,108 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,160. Most fall between $538 and $2,131 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,108
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,108 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
$346$632$1,092$1,879$3,446

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($346 vs $3,446).

How the prices are spread

$210 – $288: 86 hospitals$210$288 – $395: 158 hospitals$395 – $543: 230 hospitals$395$543 – $746: 362 hospitals$746 – $1,025: 480 hospitals$746$1,025 – $1,408: 480 hospitals$1,408 – $1,935: 425 hospitals$1,408$1,935 – $2,658: 278 hospitals$2,658 – $3,652: 172 hospitals$2,658$3,652 – $5,017: 127 hospitals$3,652median $1,092price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,798 of 3,108 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$210$28886
$288$395158
$395$543230
$543$746362
$746$1,025480
$1,025$1,408480
$1,408$1,935425
$1,935$2,658278
$2,658$3,652172
$3,652$5,017127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$631
Median cash price$1,092
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.73×

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 $1,092.

Alaska: median $4,111 across 14 hospitalsAK$4,111Maine: median $776 across 25 hospitalsME$776Vermont: median $922 across 13 hospitalsVT$922New Hampshire: median $751 across 22 hospitalsNH$751Washington: median $1,299 across 63 hospitalsWA$1,299Idaho: median $1,473 across 18 hospitalsID$1,473Montana: median $1,121 across 20 hospitalsMT$1,121North Dakota: median $1,220 across 17 hospitalsND$1,220Minnesota: median $828 across 83 hospitalsMN$828Illinois: median $966 across 116 hospitalsIL$966Wisconsin: median $892 across 100 hospitalsWI$892Michigan: median $1,039 across 94 hospitalsMI$1,039New York: median $782 across 96 hospitalsNY$782Massachusetts: median $1,307 across 43 hospitalsMA$1,307Oregon: median $1,504 across 49 hospitalsOR$1,504Nevada: median $1,187 across 19 hospitalsNV$1,187Wyoming: median $1,077 across 14 hospitalsWY$1,077South Dakota: median $1,511 across 26 hospitalsSD$1,511Iowa: median $1,134 across 76 hospitalsIA$1,134Indiana: median $758 across 86 hospitalsIN$758Ohio: median $1,012 across 138 hospitalsOH$1,012Pennsylvania: median $1,015 across 122 hospitalsPA$1,015New Jersey: median $732 across 55 hospitalsNJ$732Connecticut: median $845 across 23 hospitalsCT$845Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,119 across 212 hospitalsCA$3,119Utah: median $1,500 across 26 hospitalsUT$1,500Colorado: median $1,616 across 62 hospitalsCO$1,616Nebraska: median $1,117 across 61 hospitalsNE$1,117Missouri: median $898 across 74 hospitalsMO$898Kentucky: median $908 across 65 hospitalsKY$908West Virginia: median $740 across 25 hospitalsWV$740Virginia: median $932 across 73 hospitalsVA$932Maryland: median $862 across 40 hospitalsMD$862Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $981 across 52 hospitalsAZ$981New Mexico: median $1,823 across 28 hospitalsNM$1,823Kansas: median $887 across 67 hospitalsKS$887Arkansas: median $521 across 37 hospitalsAR$521Tennessee: median $485 across 81 hospitalsTN$485North Carolina: median $775 across 75 hospitalsNC$775South Carolina: median $1,151 across 51 hospitalsSC$1,151Oklahoma: median $896 across 69 hospitalsOK$896Louisiana: median $587 across 55 hospitalsLA$587Mississippi: median $690 across 53 hospitalsMS$690Alabama: median $732 across 40 hospitalsAL$732Georgia: median $907 across 105 hospitalsGA$907Hawaii: median $1,710 across 15 hospitalsHI$1,710Texas: median $1,885 across 226 hospitalsTX$1,885Florida: median $2,471 across 169 hospitalsFL$2,471
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,092. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK14$4,111+276%$809 – $5,326
California CA212$3,119+186%$1,260 – $5,448
Florida FL169$2,471+126%$882 – $5,010
Texas TX226$1,885+73%$772 – $3,436
New Mexico NM28$1,823+67%$1,112 – $2,157
Hawaii HI15$1,710+57%$1,238 – $2,131
Colorado CO62$1,616+48%$854 – $2,534
South Dakota SD26$1,511+38%$828 – $2,123
Oregon OR49$1,504+38%$1,028 – $2,069
Utah UT26$1,500+37%$1,037 – $2,375
Idaho ID18$1,473+35%$742 – $1,547
Massachusetts MA43$1,307+20%$548 – $1,721
Washington WA63$1,299+19%$1,019 – $2,241
North Dakota ND17$1,220+12%$443 – $1,536
Nevada NV19$1,187+9%$550 – $4,103
South Carolina SC51$1,151+5%$881 – $1,535
Iowa IA76$1,134+4%$526 – $1,974
Montana MT20$1,121+3%$383 – $1,523
Nebraska NE61$1,117+2%$453 – $1,633
Wyoming WY14$1,077−1%$350 – $1,625
Michigan MI94$1,039−5%$569 – $1,749
Pennsylvania PA122$1,015−7%$547 – $1,828
Ohio OH138$1,012−7%$581 – $1,654
Arizona AZ52$981−10%$697 – $2,741
Illinois IL116$966−12%$434 – $2,355
Virginia VA73$932−15%$667 – $1,798
Vermont VT13$922−16%$493 – $2,110
Kentucky KY65$908−17%$439 – $1,340
Georgia GA105$907−17%$594 – $2,280
Missouri MO74$898−18%$600 – $1,930
Oklahoma OK69$896−18%$355 – $1,400
Wisconsin WI100$892−18%$477 – $1,269
Kansas KS67$887−19%$348 – $1,348
Maryland MD40$862−21%$666 – $1,037
Connecticut CT23$845−23%$592 – $1,897
Minnesota MN83$828−24%$600 – $1,498
New York NY96$782−28%$327 – $1,331
Maine ME25$776−29%$302 – $1,758
North Carolina NC75$775−29%$468 – $1,019
Indiana IN86$758−31%$372 – $1,357
New Hampshire NH22$751−31%$540 – $2,101
West Virginia WV25$740−32%$200 – $1,340
New Jersey NJ55$732−33%$502 – $2,287
Alabama AL40$732−33%$362 – $1,427
Mississippi MS53$690−37%$397 – $1,059
Louisiana LA55$587−46%$285 – $1,278
Arkansas AR37$521−52%$426 – $910
Tennessee TN81$485−56%$301 – $1,193
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $1,092.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,281$1,117$565 – $2,355
Children’s53$1,813$670 – $3,513
Critical access764$973$474 – $1,529
Ownership
For-profit459$1,577$617 – $4,532
Government547$895$470 – $1,553
Non-profit2,092$1,063$549 – $2,008
System affiliation
Part of a system2,553$1,128$577 – $2,217
Independent555$895$407 – $1,622

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,866
Median cash price$1,092
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

2,329 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,115 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,197; most fall between $559 and $2,128.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,329 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
$341$667$1,115$1,888$3,147

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($341 vs $3,147).

Of the 2,462 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,329 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 101 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,108 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (79%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,281 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,108
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
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 — excluded115
Hospitals that filed this code3,281

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 July 20, 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 Respiratory intubation and mechanical ventilation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ventilation Assist & Mgmt Inpatient 1st Day.

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, “Ventilator management in the hospital, first day (CPT 94002) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94002-ventilator-management-in-the-hospital-first-day