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Procedure price report · Other respiratory therapy

Continuous nebulizer treatment, first hour

CPT 94644the billing code this page is about

Continuous inhaled medication delivered for airway obstruction; this code covers the first hour of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $203 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,718 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $216. Most fall between $116 and $384 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,718
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 2,718 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
$80$129$203$336$538

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($80 vs $538).

How the prices are spread

$55 – $72: 86 hospitals$55$72 – $94: 144 hospitals$94 – $122: 266 hospitals$94$122 – $159: 371 hospitals$159 – $207: 381 hospitals$159$207 – $269: 389 hospitals$269 – $351: 328 hospitals$269$351 – $457: 217 hospitals$457 – $595: 167 hospitals$457$595 – $775: 99 hospitals$595median $203price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,448 of 2,718 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$55$7286
$72$94144
$94$122266
$122$159371
$159$207381
$207$269389
$269$351328
$351$457217
$457$595167
$595$77599

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$203
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.49×

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 $203.

Alaska: median $351 across 12 hospitalsAK$351Maine: median $167 across 22 hospitalsME$167Vermont: median $197 across 12 hospitalsVT$197New Hampshire: median $195 across 19 hospitalsNH$195Washington: median $208 across 56 hospitalsWA$208Idaho: median $232 across 18 hospitalsID$232Montana: median $122 across 18 hospitalsMT$122North Dakota: median $154 across 13 hospitalsND$154Minnesota: median $159 across 63 hospitalsMN$159Illinois: median $237 across 115 hospitalsIL$237Wisconsin: median $180 across 100 hospitalsWI$180Michigan: median $217 across 87 hospitalsMI$217New York: median $218 across 77 hospitalsNY$218Massachusetts: median $339 across 34 hospitalsMA$339Oregon: median $168 across 40 hospitalsOR$168Nevada: median $230 across 18 hospitalsNV$230Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $289 across 11 hospitalsSD$289Iowa: median $191 across 56 hospitalsIA$191Indiana: median $140 across 85 hospitalsIN$140Ohio: median $296 across 117 hospitalsOH$296Pennsylvania: median $199 across 109 hospitalsPA$199New Jersey: median $154 across 51 hospitalsNJ$154Connecticut: median $217 across 21 hospitalsCT$217Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $364 across 184 hospitalsCA$364Utah: median $448 across 13 hospitalsUT$448Colorado: median $230 across 59 hospitalsCO$230Nebraska: median $191 across 45 hospitalsNE$191Missouri: median $146 across 70 hospitalsMO$146Kentucky: median $184 across 49 hospitalsKY$184West Virginia: median $204 across 16 hospitalsWV$204Virginia: median $185 across 67 hospitalsVA$185Maryland: median $120 across 36 hospitalsMD$120Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $340 across 39 hospitalsAZ$340New Mexico: median $154 across 28 hospitalsNM$154Kansas: median $191 across 59 hospitalsKS$191Arkansas: median $104 across 18 hospitalsAR$104Tennessee: median $96 across 79 hospitalsTN$96North Carolina: median $144 across 84 hospitalsNC$144South Carolina: median $186 across 49 hospitalsSC$186Oklahoma: median $149 across 59 hospitalsOK$149Louisiana: median $130 across 47 hospitalsLA$130Mississippi: median $88 across 46 hospitalsMS$88Alabama: median $179 across 32 hospitalsAL$179Georgia: median $255 across 95 hospitalsGA$255Hawaii: median $238 across 14 hospitalsHI$238Texas: median $257 across 210 hospitalsTX$257Florida: median $256 across 142 hospitalsFL$256
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $203. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT13$448+121%$175 – $943
California CA184$364+79%$177 – $614
Alaska AK12$351+73%$241 – $813
Arizona AZ39$340+68%$163 – $800
Massachusetts MA34$339+67%$152 – $480
Ohio OH117$296+46%$129 – $385
South Dakota SD11$289+42%$249 – $351
Texas TX210$257+27%$128 – $490
Florida FL142$256+26%$149 – $697
Georgia GA95$255+26%$132 – $464
Hawaii HI14$238+17%$137 – $384
Illinois IL115$237+17%$111 – $362
Idaho ID18$232+14%$137 – $296
Nevada NV18$230+13%$157 – $551
Colorado CO59$230+13%$144 – $462
New York NY77$218+8%$133 – $357
Michigan MI87$217+7%$131 – $336
Connecticut CT21$217+7%$162 – $336
Washington WA56$208+3%$147 – $300
West Virginia WV16$2040%$123 – $680
Pennsylvania PA109$199−2%$121 – $372
Vermont VT12$197−3%$140 – $352
New Hampshire NH19$195−4%$100 – $371
Kansas KS59$191−6%$107 – $350
Iowa IA56$191−6%$136 – $275
Nebraska NE45$191−6%$105 – $337
South Carolina SC49$186−8%$144 – $426
Virginia VA67$185−9%$160 – $292
Kentucky KY49$184−9%$90 – $275
Wisconsin WI100$180−11%$128 – $353
Alabama AL32$179−12%$105 – $442
Oregon OR40$168−17%$127 – $229
Maine ME22$167−18%$82 – $227
Minnesota MN63$159−21%$121 – $303
New Mexico NM28$154−24%$108 – $278
North Dakota ND13$154−24%$117 – $216
New Jersey NJ51$154−24%$94 – $221
Oklahoma OK59$149−27%$91 – $249
Missouri MO70$146−28%$119 – $271
North Carolina NC84$144−29%$101 – $214
Indiana IN85$140−31%$49 – $231
Louisiana LA47$130−36%$59 – $257
Montana MT18$122−40%$73 – $235
Maryland MD36$120−41%$98 – $141
Arkansas AR18$104−49%$69 – $181
Tennessee TN79$96−53%$50 – $226
Mississippi MS46$88−57%$72 – $168
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not 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 $203.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,051$203$116 – $408
Children’s49$318$119 – $595
Critical access609$197$108 – $322
Ownership
For-profit416$301$133 – $709
Government448$182$106 – $306
Non-profit1,845$198$114 – $353
System affiliation
Part of a system2,248$204$116 – $394
Independent470$197$113 – $326

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$361
Median cash price$203
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

2,043 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $208 and the average of the middle 60% is $220; most fall between $118 and $376.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,043 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
$82$131$208$336$503

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($82 vs $503).

Of the 2,151 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,043 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 89 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,718 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (69%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,858 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,718
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code2,858

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 respiratory therapy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Continuous Inhalation Treatment 1st Hr.

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, “Continuous nebulizer treatment, first hour (CPT 94644) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94644-continuous-nebulizer-treatment-first-hour