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Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood oxygen check with a finger or ear sensor

CPT 94760the billing code this page is about

A single reading of blood oxygen level taken with a clip-on sensor placed on a finger or ear.

Hospitals typically charge $54 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,653 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $58. Most fall between $20 and $113 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,653
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 2,653 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
$10$25$54$97$169

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($10 vs $169).

How the prices are spread

$6 – $9: 97 hospitals$6$9 – $12: 104 hospitals$12 – $18: 131 hospitals$12$18 – $26: 215 hospitals$26 – $37: 305 hospitals$26$37 – $53: 343 hospitals$53 – $76: 379 hospitals$53$76 – $109: 383 hospitals$109 – $157: 273 hospitals$109$157 – $226: 180 hospitals$157median $54price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,410 of 2,653 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$6$997
$9$12104
$12$18131
$18$26215
$26$37305
$37$53343
$53$76379
$76$109383
$109$157273
$157$226180

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $54.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $44 across 25 hospitalsME$44Vermont: median $79 across 13 hospitalsVT$79New Hampshire: median $36 across 17 hospitalsNH$36Washington: median $44 across 47 hospitalsWA$44Idaho: median $79 across 21 hospitalsID$79Montana: median $38 across 18 hospitalsMT$38North Dakota: median $50 across 13 hospitalsND$50Minnesota: median $67 across 71 hospitalsMN$67Illinois: median $59 across 108 hospitalsIL$59Wisconsin: median $43 across 77 hospitalsWI$43Michigan: median $32 across 72 hospitalsMI$32New York: median $35 across 93 hospitalsNY$35Massachusetts: median $64 across 42 hospitalsMA$64Oregon: median $47 across 39 hospitalsOR$47Nevada: median $66 across 18 hospitalsNV$66Wyoming: median $32 across 11 hospitalsWY$32South Dakota: median $90 across 24 hospitalsSD$90Iowa: median $52 across 82 hospitalsIA$52Indiana: median $52 across 88 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $68 across 106 hospitalsOH$68Pennsylvania: median $49 across 101 hospitalsPA$49New Jersey: median $74 across 31 hospitalsNJ$74Connecticut: median $49 across 17 hospitalsCT$49Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $106 across 157 hospitalsCA$106Utah: median $35 across 38 hospitalsUT$35Colorado: median $90 across 57 hospitalsCO$90Nebraska: median $83 across 61 hospitalsNE$83Missouri: median $55 across 67 hospitalsMO$55Kentucky: median $54 across 61 hospitalsKY$54West Virginia: median $43 across 35 hospitalsWV$43Virginia: median $43 across 61 hospitalsVA$43Maryland: median $29 across 41 hospitalsMD$29Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $89 across 39 hospitalsAZ$89New Mexico: median $73 across 27 hospitalsNM$73Kansas: median $44 across 69 hospitalsKS$44Arkansas: median $20 across 35 hospitalsAR$20Tennessee: median $35 across 55 hospitalsTN$35North Carolina: median $33 across 49 hospitalsNC$33South Carolina: median $59 across 45 hospitalsSC$59Oklahoma: median $42 across 57 hospitalsOK$42Louisiana: median $21 across 46 hospitalsLA$21Mississippi: median $40 across 53 hospitalsMS$40Alabama: median $35 across 36 hospitalsAL$35Georgia: median $31 across 78 hospitalsGA$31Hawaii: median $47 across 14 hospitalsHI$47Texas: median $94 across 198 hospitalsTX$94Florida: median $98 across 117 hospitalsFL$98
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $54. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA157$106+98%$33 – $169
Florida FL117$98+83%$25 – $234
Texas TX198$94+75%$23 – $156
Colorado CO57$90+69%$52 – $199
South Dakota SD24$90+68%$77 – $139
Arizona AZ39$89+65%$17 – $217
Nebraska NE61$83+55%$37 – $113
Idaho ID21$79+48%$21 – $156
Vermont VT13$79+47%$9 – $113
New Jersey NJ31$74+38%$7 – $214
New Mexico NM27$73+36%$43 – $95
Ohio OH106$68+28%$25 – $152
Minnesota MN71$67+25%$46 – $88
Nevada NV18$66+23%$13 – $164
Massachusetts MA42$64+20%$34 – $91
South Carolina SC45$59+10%$38 – $96
Illinois IL108$59+10%$29 – $101
Missouri MO67$55+3%$27 – $114
Kentucky KY61$540%$32 – $79
Indiana IN88$52−3%$24 – $104
Iowa IA82$52−3%$20 – $70
North Dakota ND13$50−7%$18 – $103
Connecticut CT17$49−8%$27 – $118
Pennsylvania PA101$49−8%$22 – $98
Oregon OR39$47−11%$7 – $71
Hawaii HI14$47−12%$36 – $96
Maine ME25$44−17%$16 – $84
Kansas KS69$44−18%$14 – $79
Washington WA47$44−18%$14 – $82
Virginia VA61$43−19%$21 – $90
West Virginia WV35$43−19%$17 – $60
Wisconsin WI77$43−20%$29 – $83
Oklahoma OK57$42−22%$10 – $70
Mississippi MS53$40−25%$10 – $75
Montana MT18$38−30%$8 – $75
New Hampshire NH17$36−33%$8 – $74
Alabama AL36$35−34%$21 – $88
Tennessee TN55$35−34%$19 – $79
Utah UT38$35−35%$35 – $112
New York NY93$35−35%$11 – $122
North Carolina NC49$33−38%$15 – $75
Michigan MI72$32−40%$10 – $71
Wyoming WY11$32−40%$26 – $58
Georgia GA78$31−42%$21 – $124
Maryland MD41$29−47%$24 – $36
Louisiana LA46$21−61%$9 – $55
Arkansas AR35$20−63%$10 – $60
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not 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 $54.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,866$55$21 – $124
Children’s43$48$18 – $94
Critical access738$50$17 – $92
Ownership
For-profit362$88$29 – $187
Government468$42$16 – $86
Non-profit1,817$53$21 – $111
System affiliation
Part of a system2,134$57$22 – $121
Independent519$43$13 – $89

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$92
Median cash price$54
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

1,902 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $54 and the average of the middle 60% is $60; most fall between $23 and $117.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,902 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
$13$28$54$99$169

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $169).

Of the 2,044 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,902 gave a usable cash price; 43 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 98 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,653 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,891 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,653
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here71
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded162
Hospitals that filed this code2,891

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Noninvasive Ear/Pulse Oximetry Single Deter.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Blood oxygen check with a finger or ear sensor (CPT 94760) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94760-blood-oxygen-check-with-a-finger-or-ear-sensor