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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on lung and bronchus

Maximum breathing capacity test

CPT 94200the billing code this page is about

Measures the largest volume of air you can move in and out of the lungs by breathing as hard and fast as possible for a short timed period.

Hospitals typically charge $142 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,737 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $150. Most fall between $63 and $272 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,737
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 1,737 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
$40$72$142$237$408

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($40 vs $408).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $37: 72 hospitals$27$37 – $50: 72 hospitals$50 – $68: 157 hospitals$50$68 – $92: 178 hospitals$92 – $124: 191 hospitals$92$124 – $168: 228 hospitals$168 – $228: 293 hospitals$168$228 – $308: 165 hospitals$308 – $417: 141 hospitals$308$417 – $565: 71 hospitals$417median $142price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,568 of 1,737 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$3772
$37$5072
$50$68157
$68$92178
$92$124191
$124$168228
$168$228293
$228$308165
$308$417141
$417$56571

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$142
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 $142.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $150 across 40 hospitalsWA$150Idaho: median $136 across 15 hospitalsID$136Montana: median $34 across 12 hospitalsMT$34North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $120 across 41 hospitalsMN$120Illinois: median $166 across 61 hospitalsIL$166Wisconsin: median $113 across 68 hospitalsWI$113Michigan: median $91 across 42 hospitalsMI$91New York: median $98 across 65 hospitalsNY$98Massachusetts: median $248 across 28 hospitalsMA$248Oregon: median $76 across 23 hospitalsOR$76Nevada: median $72 across 12 hospitalsNV$72Wyoming: median $121 across 12 hospitalsWY$121South Dakota: median $77 across 11 hospitalsSD$77Iowa: median $119 across 38 hospitalsIA$119Indiana: median $89 across 36 hospitalsIN$89Ohio: median $177 across 57 hospitalsOH$177Pennsylvania: median $116 across 73 hospitalsPA$116New Jersey: median $68 across 42 hospitalsNJ$68Connecticut: median $191 across 14 hospitalsCT$191Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $229 across 135 hospitalsCA$229Utah: median $314 across 30 hospitalsUT$314Colorado: median $126 across 27 hospitalsCO$126Nebraska: median $164 across 28 hospitalsNE$164Missouri: median $163 across 49 hospitalsMO$163Kentucky: median $105 across 28 hospitalsKY$105West Virginia: median $121 across 14 hospitalsWV$121Virginia: median $158 across 28 hospitalsVA$158Maryland: median $104 across 24 hospitalsMD$104Delaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $89 across 29 hospitalsAZ$89New Mexico: median $206 across 13 hospitalsNM$206Kansas: median $94 across 45 hospitalsKS$94Arkansas: median $69 across 11 hospitalsAR$69Tennessee: median $85 across 45 hospitalsTN$85North Carolina: median $98 across 41 hospitalsNC$98South Carolina: median $224 across 33 hospitalsSC$224Oklahoma: median $70 across 34 hospitalsOK$70Louisiana: median $83 across 33 hospitalsLA$83Mississippi: median $74 across 18 hospitalsMS$74Alabama: median $85 across 20 hospitalsAL$85Georgia: median $166 across 65 hospitalsGA$166Hawaii: median $205 across 13 hospitalsHI$205Texas: median $215 across 139 hospitalsTX$215Florida: median $359 across 101 hospitalsFL$359
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $142. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL101$359+153%$165 – $510
Utah UT30$314+121%$207 – $314
Massachusetts MA28$248+74%$196 – $503
California CA135$229+61%$99 – $454
South Carolina SC33$224+57%$128 – $381
Texas TX139$215+51%$128 – $296
New Mexico NM13$206+45%$100 – $417
Hawaii HI13$205+44%$127 – $258
Connecticut CT14$191+35%$132 – $254
Ohio OH57$177+25%$59 – $223
Illinois IL61$166+17%$53 – $248
Georgia GA65$166+16%$60 – $362
Nebraska NE28$164+15%$64 – $213
Missouri MO49$163+15%$70 – $200
Virginia VA28$158+11%$29 – $207
Washington WA40$150+5%$73 – $240
Idaho ID15$136−4%$96 – $173
Colorado CO27$126−11%$91 – $193
West Virginia WV14$121−15%$100 – $216
Wyoming WY12$121−15%$82 – $262
Minnesota MN41$120−16%$50 – $172
Iowa IA38$119−16%$83 – $208
Pennsylvania PA73$116−19%$70 – $530
Wisconsin WI68$113−21%$59 – $220
Kentucky KY28$105−26%$67 – $223
Maryland MD24$104−27%$43 – $187
North Carolina NC41$98−31%$68 – $209
New York NY65$98−31%$63 – $251
Kansas KS45$94−34%$46 – $135
Michigan MI42$91−36%$59 – $220
Indiana IN36$89−37%$31 – $189
Arizona AZ29$89−37%$27 – $680
Alabama AL20$85−40%$46 – $241
Tennessee TN45$85−40%$29 – $216
Louisiana LA33$83−42%$42 – $150
South Dakota SD11$77−46%$54 – $194
Oregon OR23$76−47%$27 – $157
Mississippi MS18$74−48%$23 – $99
Nevada NV12$72−49%$50 – $199
Oklahoma OK34$70−51%$9 – $147
Arkansas AR11$69−52%$34 – $178
New Jersey NJ42$68−52%$55 – $273
Montana MT12$34−76%$29 – $104
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $142.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,326$153$67 – $307
Children’s43$227$73 – $354
Critical access364$120$54 – $194
Ownership
For-profit217$195$75 – $497
Government304$127$58 – $216
Non-profit1,212$143$62 – $263
System affiliation
Part of a system1,444$152$64 – $296
Independent293$118$56 – $211

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$250
Median cash price$142
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

1,214 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $157 and the average of the middle 60% is $161; most fall between $69 and $294.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,214 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
$43$82$157$242$394

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($43 vs $394).

Of the 1,306 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,214 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,737 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (44%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,878 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,737
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,878

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 Other diagnostic procedures on lung and bronchus family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Max Breathing Capacity Maximal Voluntary Ventj|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT.

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, “Maximum breathing capacity test (CPT 94200) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94200-maximum-breathing-capacity-test