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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on lung and bronchus

Exercise test for asthma without heart tracing

CPT 94619the billing code this page is about

An exercise challenge used to look for exercise-induced narrowing of the airways, with breathing tests before and after exercise and oxygen level monitoring, but no heart rhythm tracing.

Hospitals typically charge $133 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 663 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $155. Most fall between $74 and $402 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
663
States
48
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 663 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$81$133$272$598

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($60 vs $598).

How the prices are spread

$42 – $57: 28 hospitals$42$57 – $77: 83 hospitals$77 – $104: 76 hospitals$77$104 – $142: 130 hospitals$142 – $193: 100 hospitals$142$193 – $262: 40 hospitals$262 – $356: 34 hospitals$262$356 – $484: 44 hospitals$484 – $658: 34 hospitals$484$658 – $894: 29 hospitals$658median $133price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (598 of 663 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$42$5728
$57$7783
$77$10476
$104$142130
$142$193100
$193$26240
$262$35634
$356$48444
$484$65834
$658$89429

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$133
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $133.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $147 across 16 hospitalsWA$147Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $98 across 20 hospitalsIL$98Wisconsin: median $147 across 28 hospitalsWI$147Michigan: median $168 across 25 hospitalsMI$168New York: median $73 across 31 hospitalsNY$73Massachusetts: median $329 across 10 hospitalsMA$329Oregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 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 $120 across 19 hospitalsIA$120Indiana: median $83 across 10 hospitalsIN$83Ohio: median $177 across 56 hospitalsOH$177Pennsylvania: median $113 across 36 hospitalsPA$113New Jersey: median $66 across 14 hospitalsNJ$66Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $130 across 51 hospitalsCA$130Utah: median $593 across 17 hospitalsUT$593Colorado: median $153 across 25 hospitalsCO$153Nebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $106 across 11 hospitalsMO$106Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $162 across 15 hospitalsVA$162Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $272 across 15 hospitalsNC$272South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $60 across 21 hospitalsOK$60Louisiana: median $49 across 12 hospitalsLA$49Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $74 across 32 hospitalsGA$74Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $80 across 55 hospitalsTX$80Florida: median $182 across 27 hospitalsFL$182
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $133. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT17$593+346%$248 – $741
Massachusetts MA10$329+148%$99 – $427
North Carolina NC15$272+105%$133 – $272
Florida FL27$182+37%$136 – $601
Ohio OH56$177+33%$148 – $406
Michigan MI25$168+26%$99 – $213
Virginia VA15$162+21%$140 – $283
Colorado CO25$153+15%$83 – $526
Washington WA16$147+11%$100 – $147
Wisconsin WI28$147+10%$113 – $590
California CA51$130−2%$114 – $151
Iowa IA19$120−10%$112 – $832
Pennsylvania PA36$113−15%$70 – $1,284
Missouri MO11$106−20%$83 – $156
Illinois IL20$98−27%$72 – $178
Indiana IN10$83−37%$30 – $83
Texas TX55$80−40%$64 – $866
Georgia GA32$74−44%$74 – $424
New York NY31$73−45%$70 – $177
New Jersey NJ14$66−51%$66 – $176
Oklahoma OK21$60−55%$45 – $121
Louisiana LA12$49−63%$31 – $83
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $133.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care558$130$70 – $285
Children’s21$487$191 – $733
Critical access80$172$85 – $481
Ownership
For-profit64$112$74 – $269
Government85$161$70 – $424
Non-profit510$133$74 – $402
System affiliation
Part of a system600$133$74 – $402
Independent63$135$60 – $290

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$236
Median cash price$133
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

548 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $147 and the average of the middle 60% is $168; most fall between $80 and $409.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 548 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
$64$97$147$283$601

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $601).

Of the 575 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 548 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

663 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 688 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted663
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code688

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 HC Xers Tst Brncspsm Pre&Post Spmtry&Pls Ox WO /Ecg.

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, “Exercise test for asthma without heart tracing (CPT 94619) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94619-exercise-test-for-asthma-without-heart-tracing