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Chest physical therapy to clear mucus, follow-up session

CPT 94668the billing code this page is about

A later session of hands-on chest wall techniques such as clapping, vibration, and positioning to help move mucus out of the lungs.

Hospitals typically charge $125 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,079 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $130. Most fall between $67 and $236 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,079
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 3,079 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
$46$78$125$201$338

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $338).

How the prices are spread

$34 – $44: 130 hospitals$34$44 – $58: 178 hospitals$58 – $74: 258 hospitals$58$74 – $96: 387 hospitals$96 – $124: 424 hospitals$96$124 – $161: 510 hospitals$161 – $208: 311 hospitals$161$208 – $269: 244 hospitals$269 – $348: 192 hospitals$269$348 – $450: 143 hospitals$348median $125price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,777 of 3,079 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$34$44130
$44$58178
$58$74258
$74$96387
$96$124424
$124$161510
$161$208311
$208$269244
$269$348192
$348$450143

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$125
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $125.

Alaska: median $272 across 11 hospitalsAK$272Maine: median $87 across 23 hospitalsME$87Vermont: median $149 across 13 hospitalsVT$149New Hampshire: median $86 across 21 hospitalsNH$86Washington: median $140 across 60 hospitalsWA$140Idaho: median $190 across 18 hospitalsID$190Montana: median $99 across 20 hospitalsMT$99North Dakota: median $126 across 19 hospitalsND$126Minnesota: median $121 across 70 hospitalsMN$121Illinois: median $115 across 118 hospitalsIL$115Wisconsin: median $97 across 104 hospitalsWI$97Michigan: median $113 across 90 hospitalsMI$113New York: median $153 across 85 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $162 across 40 hospitalsMA$162Oregon: median $124 across 50 hospitalsOR$124Nevada: median $144 across 20 hospitalsNV$144Wyoming: median $106 across 14 hospitalsWY$106South Dakota: median $154 across 26 hospitalsSD$154Iowa: median $104 across 82 hospitalsIA$104Indiana: median $88 across 91 hospitalsIN$88Ohio: median $162 across 138 hospitalsOH$162Pennsylvania: median $193 across 122 hospitalsPA$193New Jersey: median $143 across 55 hospitalsNJ$143Connecticut: median $192 across 18 hospitalsCT$192Rhode Island: median $143 across 10 hospitalsRI$143California: median $209 across 211 hospitalsCA$209Utah: median $136 across 24 hospitalsUT$136Colorado: median $130 across 61 hospitalsCO$130Nebraska: median $133 across 63 hospitalsNE$133Missouri: median $100 across 69 hospitalsMO$100Kentucky: median $100 across 69 hospitalsKY$100West Virginia: median $99 across 24 hospitalsWV$99Virginia: median $101 across 72 hospitalsVA$101Maryland: median $88 across 41 hospitalsMD$88Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $95 across 52 hospitalsAZ$95New Mexico: median $98 across 31 hospitalsNM$98Kansas: median $98 across 69 hospitalsKS$98Arkansas: median $58 across 32 hospitalsAR$58Tennessee: median $65 across 78 hospitalsTN$65North Carolina: median $86 across 87 hospitalsNC$86South Carolina: median $119 across 50 hospitalsSC$119Oklahoma: median $100 across 69 hospitalsOK$100Louisiana: median $69 across 53 hospitalsLA$69Mississippi: median $73 across 55 hospitalsMS$73Alabama: median $103 across 37 hospitalsAL$103Georgia: median $130 across 102 hospitalsGA$130Hawaii: median $157 across 14 hospitalsHI$157Texas: median $136 across 231 hospitalsTX$136Florida: median $167 across 160 hospitalsFL$167
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $125. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK11$272+117%$169 – $371
California CA211$209+67%$117 – $350
Pennsylvania PA122$193+54%$91 – $264
Connecticut CT18$192+53%$135 – $272
Idaho ID18$190+51%$126 – $296
Florida FL160$167+33%$85 – $381
Massachusetts MA40$162+29%$87 – $259
Ohio OH138$162+29%$97 – $265
Hawaii HI14$157+25%$123 – $379
South Dakota SD26$154+23%$138 – $244
New York NY85$153+22%$72 – $279
Vermont VT13$149+19%$69 – $187
Nevada NV20$144+15%$37 – $417
New Jersey NJ55$143+14%$45 – $288
Rhode Island RI10$143+14%$75 – $155
Washington WA60$140+11%$84 – $200
Utah UT24$136+9%$83 – $247
Texas TX231$136+8%$65 – $281
Nebraska NE63$133+6%$75 – $219
Colorado CO61$130+4%$86 – $236
Georgia GA102$130+3%$76 – $283
North Dakota ND19$126+1%$80 – $209
Oregon OR50$124−1%$83 – $203
Minnesota MN70$121−4%$91 – $147
South Carolina SC50$119−5%$80 – $190
Illinois IL118$115−8%$62 – $245
Michigan MI90$113−10%$75 – $201
Wyoming WY14$106−16%$81 – $226
Iowa IA82$104−17%$81 – $151
Alabama AL37$103−18%$59 – $244
Virginia VA72$101−19%$80 – $160
Kentucky KY69$100−20%$51 – $208
Missouri MO69$100−20%$75 – $132
Oklahoma OK69$100−20%$65 – $230
West Virginia WV24$99−21%$80 – $352
Montana MT20$99−21%$56 – $124
Kansas KS69$98−22%$46 – $185
New Mexico NM31$98−22%$54 – $184
Wisconsin WI104$97−23%$58 – $141
Arizona AZ52$95−24%$60 – $331
Maryland MD41$88−29%$72 – $111
Indiana IN91$88−30%$33 – $145
Maine ME23$87−31%$63 – $128
North Carolina NC87$86−31%$47 – $112
New Hampshire NH21$86−32%$78 – $220
Mississippi MS55$73−42%$44 – $126
Louisiana LA53$69−45%$33 – $170
Tennessee TN78$65−48%$29 – $131
Arkansas AR32$58−53%$45 – $121
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 $125.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,246$128$68 – $250
Children’s54$172$58 – $271
Critical access770$115$65 – $181
Ownership
For-profit450$161$79 – $400
Government533$110$62 – $187
Non-profit2,087$124$67 – $221
System affiliation
Part of a system2,551$128$69 – $241
Independent528$115$61 – $205

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$208
Median cash price$125
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

2,320 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $127 and the average of the middle 60% is $129; most fall between $68 and $227.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,320 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
$48$78$127$194$324

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($48 vs $324).

Of the 2,449 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,320 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,079 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (78%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,241 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,079
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
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 — excluded114
Hospitals that filed this code3,241

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 HC Cpt Subsequent 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, “Chest physical therapy to clear mucus, follow-up session (CPT 94668) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94668-chest-physical-therapy-to-clear-mucus-follow-up-session