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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on lung and bronchus

Breathing test to measure lung function (spirometry)

CPT 94010the billing code this page is about

Measures how much air you can blow out and how fast, using a mouthpiece connected to a recording machine, with a written interpretation.

Hospitals typically charge $218 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,303 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $231. Most fall between $94 and $406 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,303
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 3,303 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
$50$119$218$358$570

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $570).

How the prices are spread

$28 – $40: 68 hospitals$28$40 – $56: 129 hospitals$56 – $79: 189 hospitals$56$79 – $111: 227 hospitals$111 – $156: 315 hospitals$111$156 – $221: 581 hospitals$221 – $311: 544 hospitals$221$311 – $439: 515 hospitals$439 – $620: 289 hospitals$439$620 – $874: 118 hospitals$620median $218price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,975 of 3,303 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$28$4068
$40$56129
$56$79189
$79$111227
$111$156315
$156$221581
$221$311544
$311$439515
$439$620289
$620$874118

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$218
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.99×

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 $218.

Alaska: median $268 across 18 hospitalsAK$268Maine: median $130 across 28 hospitalsME$130Vermont: median $72 across 14 hospitalsVT$72New Hampshire: median $137 across 24 hospitalsNH$137Washington: median $218 across 70 hospitalsWA$218Idaho: median $236 across 24 hospitalsID$236Montana: median $114 across 27 hospitalsMT$114North Dakota: median $123 across 21 hospitalsND$123Minnesota: median $155 across 101 hospitalsMN$155Illinois: median $263 across 131 hospitalsIL$263Wisconsin: median $223 across 106 hospitalsWI$223Michigan: median $203 across 85 hospitalsMI$203New York: median $185 across 110 hospitalsNY$185Massachusetts: median $364 across 53 hospitalsMA$364Oregon: median $146 across 55 hospitalsOR$146Nevada: median $234 across 22 hospitalsNV$234Wyoming: median $181 across 16 hospitalsWY$181South Dakota: median $279 across 33 hospitalsSD$279Iowa: median $169 across 85 hospitalsIA$169Indiana: median $231 across 87 hospitalsIN$231Ohio: median $281 across 131 hospitalsOH$281Pennsylvania: median $249 across 114 hospitalsPA$249New Jersey: median $197 across 56 hospitalsNJ$197Connecticut: median $287 across 21 hospitalsCT$287Rhode Island: median $168 across 10 hospitalsRI$168California: median $333 across 219 hospitalsCA$333Utah: median $195 across 40 hospitalsUT$195Colorado: median $232 across 71 hospitalsCO$232Nebraska: median $284 across 76 hospitalsNE$284Missouri: median $233 across 84 hospitalsMO$233Kentucky: median $228 across 65 hospitalsKY$228West Virginia: median $157 across 40 hospitalsWV$157Virginia: median $221 across 71 hospitalsVA$221Maryland: median $94 across 42 hospitalsMD$94Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $179 across 52 hospitalsAZ$179New Mexico: median $204 across 29 hospitalsNM$204Kansas: median $228 across 80 hospitalsKS$228Arkansas: median $156 across 39 hospitalsAR$156Tennessee: median $128 across 76 hospitalsTN$128North Carolina: median $208 across 92 hospitalsNC$208South Carolina: median $267 across 51 hospitalsSC$267Oklahoma: median $168 across 68 hospitalsOK$168Louisiana: median $131 across 53 hospitalsLA$131Mississippi: median $119 across 57 hospitalsMS$119Alabama: median $168 across 38 hospitalsAL$168Georgia: median $245 across 103 hospitalsGA$245Hawaii: median $299 across 18 hospitalsHI$299Texas: median $357 across 228 hospitalsTX$357Florida: median $268 across 162 hospitalsFL$268
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $218. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA53$364+67%$173 – $483
Texas TX228$357+64%$184 – $780
California CA219$333+53%$164 – $646
Hawaii HI18$299+37%$217 – $384
Connecticut CT21$287+32%$108 – $562
Nebraska NE76$284+31%$100 – $354
Ohio OH131$281+29%$144 – $468
South Dakota SD33$279+28%$110 – $379
Alaska AK18$268+23%$88 – $556
Florida FL162$268+23%$124 – $754
South Carolina SC51$267+22%$116 – $313
Illinois IL131$263+21%$90 – $379
Pennsylvania PA114$249+14%$142 – $466
Georgia GA103$245+13%$121 – $423
Idaho ID24$236+8%$64 – $360
Nevada NV22$234+7%$150 – $611
Missouri MO84$233+7%$126 – $346
Colorado CO71$232+6%$144 – $471
Indiana IN87$231+6%$89 – $409
Kansas KS80$228+5%$56 – $379
Kentucky KY65$228+5%$110 – $589
Wisconsin WI106$223+2%$85 – $314
Virginia VA71$221+1%$114 – $326
Washington WA70$2180%$73 – $304
North Carolina NC92$208−4%$124 – $295
New Mexico NM29$204−6%$167 – $279
Michigan MI85$203−7%$59 – $297
New Jersey NJ56$197−10%$169 – $279
Utah UT40$195−11%$195 – $376
New York NY110$185−15%$73 – $380
Wyoming WY16$181−17%$65 – $305
Arizona AZ52$179−18%$68 – $911
Iowa IA85$169−22%$57 – $222
Rhode Island RI10$168−23%$37 – $269
Alabama AL38$168−23%$90 – $262
Oklahoma OK68$168−23%$65 – $282
West Virginia WV40$157−28%$63 – $321
Arkansas AR39$156−28%$63 – $233
Minnesota MN101$155−29%$61 – $213
Oregon OR55$146−33%$19 – $327
New Hampshire NH24$137−37%$17 – $488
Louisiana LA53$131−40%$71 – $306
Maine ME28$130−40%$59 – $213
Tennessee TN76$128−41%$70 – $285
North Dakota ND21$123−44%$89 – $253
Mississippi MS57$119−45%$57 – $181
Montana MT27$114−48%$40 – $161
Maryland MD42$94−57%$67 – $262
Vermont VT14$72−67%$19 – $496
Delaware DE7not 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 $218.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,319$235$113 – $458
Children’s68$335$173 – $500
Critical access906$177$61 – $311
Ownership
For-profit447$312$148 – $911
Government617$171$64 – $312
Non-profit2,229$221$99 – $397
System affiliation
Part of a system2,676$231$108 – $417
Independent627$175$57 – $333

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$385
Median cash price$218
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $235 and the average of the middle 60% is $246; most fall between $111 and $415.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,282 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
$60$135$235$375$540

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $540).

Of the 2,443 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,282 gave a usable cash price; 57 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,303 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (83%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,523 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,303
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here103
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 code3,523

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 Other diagnostic procedures on lung and bronchus family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Spmtry W/Vc Expiratory Flo W/WO Mxml Vol Vntj.

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, “Breathing test to measure lung function (spirometry) (CPT 94010) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94010-breathing-test-to-measure-lung-function-spirometry