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

Surfactant given into the lungs

CPT 94610the billing code this page is about

A lung-coating medicine is delivered through a breathing tube into the airways; billed once for each dose given during an episode of care.

Hospitals typically charge $221 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,546 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $224. Most fall between $103 and $410 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,546
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,546 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
$73$115$221$359$649

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($73 vs $649).

How the prices are spread

$55 – $73: 79 hospitals$55$73 – $97: 123 hospitals$97 – $129: 192 hospitals$97$129 – $172: 152 hospitals$172 – $229: 185 hospitals$172$229 – $304: 247 hospitals$304 – $404: 175 hospitals$304$404 – $537: 117 hospitals$537 – $715: 58 hospitals$537$715 – $950: 64 hospitals$715median $221price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,392 of 1,546 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$55$7379
$73$97123
$97$129192
$129$172152
$172$229185
$229$304247
$304$404175
$404$537117
$537$71558
$715$95064

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$224
Median cash price$221
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 $221.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $181 across 10 hospitalsNH$181Washington: median $215 across 35 hospitalsWA$215Idaho: median $463 across 12 hospitalsID$463Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $233 across 19 hospitalsMN$233Illinois: median $255 across 54 hospitalsIL$255Wisconsin: median $144 across 55 hospitalsWI$144Michigan: median $296 across 42 hospitalsMI$296New York: median $241 across 43 hospitalsNY$241Massachusetts: median $364 across 16 hospitalsMA$364Oregon: median $272 across 29 hospitalsOR$272Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $190 across 19 hospitalsIA$190Indiana: median $113 across 42 hospitalsIN$113Ohio: median $185 across 76 hospitalsOH$185Pennsylvania: median $259 across 65 hospitalsPA$259New Jersey: median $222 across 30 hospitalsNJ$222Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $381 across 113 hospitalsCA$381Utah: median $256 across 32 hospitalsUT$256Colorado: median $344 across 39 hospitalsCO$344Nebraska: median $114 across 15 hospitalsNE$114Missouri: median $206 across 32 hospitalsMO$206Kentucky: median $257 across 27 hospitalsKY$257West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $221 across 41 hospitalsVA$221Maryland: median $103 across 26 hospitalsMD$103Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $208 across 28 hospitalsAZ$208New Mexico: median $130 across 15 hospitalsNM$130Kansas: median $206 across 16 hospitalsKS$206Arkansas: median $121 across 10 hospitalsAR$121Tennessee: median $60 across 38 hospitalsTN$60North Carolina: median $131 across 54 hospitalsNC$131South Carolina: median $288 across 38 hospitalsSC$288Oklahoma: median $124 across 26 hospitalsOK$124Louisiana: median $78 across 28 hospitalsLA$78Mississippi: median $142 across 18 hospitalsMS$142Alabama: median $197 across 15 hospitalsAL$197Georgia: median $218 across 66 hospitalsGA$218Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $221 across 152 hospitalsTX$221Florida: median $233 across 95 hospitalsFL$233
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $221. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID12$463+110%$256 – $463
California CA113$381+72%$193 – $608
Massachusetts MA16$364+65%$332 – $615
Colorado CO39$344+56%$104 – $649
Michigan MI42$296+34%$170 – $475
South Carolina SC38$288+30%$140 – $330
Oregon OR29$272+23%$100 – $427
Pennsylvania PA65$259+17%$42 – $556
Kentucky KY27$257+16%$112 – $464
Utah UT32$256+16%$256 – $318
Illinois IL54$255+16%$94 – $546
New York NY43$241+9%$183 – $450
Florida FL95$233+6%$97 – $716
Minnesota MN19$233+5%$146 – $249
New Jersey NJ30$222+1%$71 – $240
Texas TX152$2210%$117 – $445
Virginia VA41$2210%$96 – $376
Georgia GA66$218−1%$108 – $359
Washington WA35$215−3%$101 – $281
Arizona AZ28$208−6%$45 – $1,673
Kansas KS16$206−7%$120 – $1,052
Missouri MO32$206−7%$121 – $265
Alabama AL15$197−11%$92 – $332
Iowa IA19$190−14%$125 – $329
Ohio OH76$185−16%$120 – $324
New Hampshire NH10$181−18%$74 – $1,046
Wisconsin WI55$144−35%$104 – $205
Mississippi MS18$142−36%$64 – $276
North Carolina NC54$131−41%$121 – $230
New Mexico NM15$130−41%$99 – $177
Oklahoma OK26$124−44%$121 – $435
Arkansas AR10$121−45%$50 – $157
Nebraska NE15$114−48%$66 – $163
Indiana IN42$113−49%$82 – $191
Maryland MD26$103−53%$87 – $116
Louisiana LA28$78−65%$51 – $164
Tennessee TN38$60−73%$59 – $247
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $221.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,345$221$103 – $419
Children’s50$272$122 – $365
Critical access146$148$104 – $323
Ownership
For-profit224$341$110 – $849
Government175$155$94 – $328
Non-profit1,142$216$103 – $381
System affiliation
Part of a system1,387$221$104 – $403
Independent159$201$99 – $457

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$368
Median cash price$221
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

1,187 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $215 and the average of the middle 60% is $220; most fall between $104 and $388.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,187 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
$75$116$215$350$556

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $556).

Of the 1,239 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,187 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 42 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,546 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,605 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,546
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 — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,605

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as HC Surfactant Ea.

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, “Surfactant given into the lungs (CPT 94610) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94610-surfactant-given-into-the-lungs