HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Laboratory - Chemistry and Hematology

Blood oxygen checks, several readings

CPT 94761the billing code this page is about

Two or more separate blood oxygen readings taken with a clip-on sensor during the same encounter, such as before and after exercise.

Hospitals typically charge $121 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,622 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $129. Most fall between $51 and $233 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,622
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 2,622 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
$25$60$121$209$331

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $331).

How the prices are spread

$13 – $19: 60 hospitals$13$19 – $27: 85 hospitals$27 – $38: 108 hospitals$27$38 – $55: 193 hospitals$55 – $79: 290 hospitals$55$79 – $114: 368 hospitals$114 – $164: 435 hospitals$114$164 – $236: 443 hospitals$236 – $340: 264 hospitals$236$340 – $489: 116 hospitals$340median $121price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,362 of 2,622 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$13$1960
$19$2785
$27$38108
$38$55193
$55$79290
$79$114368
$114$164435
$164$236443
$236$340264
$340$489116

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $121.

Alaska: median $268 across 17 hospitalsAK$268Maine: median $63 across 24 hospitalsME$63Vermont: median $161 across 11 hospitalsVT$161New Hampshire: median $82 across 18 hospitalsNH$82Washington: median $103 across 62 hospitalsWA$103Idaho: median $181 across 21 hospitalsID$181Montana: median $88 across 18 hospitalsMT$88North Dakota: median $148 across 14 hospitalsND$148Minnesota: median $141 across 86 hospitalsMN$141Illinois: median $115 across 113 hospitalsIL$115Wisconsin: median $116 across 81 hospitalsWI$116Michigan: median $88 across 85 hospitalsMI$88New York: median $66 across 80 hospitalsNY$66Massachusetts: median $113 across 46 hospitalsMA$113Oregon: median $101 across 44 hospitalsOR$101Nevada: median $157 across 17 hospitalsNV$157Wyoming: median $160 across 10 hospitalsWY$160South Dakota: median $204 across 32 hospitalsSD$204Iowa: median $139 across 78 hospitalsIA$139Indiana: median $137 across 79 hospitalsIN$137Ohio: median $156 across 106 hospitalsOH$156Pennsylvania: median $102 across 91 hospitalsPA$102New Jersey: median $131 across 26 hospitalsNJ$131Connecticut: median $117 across 19 hospitalsCT$117Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $157 across 164 hospitalsCA$157Utah: median $109 across 35 hospitalsUT$109Colorado: median $196 across 55 hospitalsCO$196Nebraska: median $257 across 61 hospitalsNE$257Missouri: median $128 across 72 hospitalsMO$128Kentucky: median $128 across 57 hospitalsKY$128West Virginia: median $103 across 33 hospitalsWV$103Virginia: median $126 across 61 hospitalsVA$126Maryland: median $113 across 40 hospitalsMD$113Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $245 across 32 hospitalsAZ$245New Mexico: median $106 across 24 hospitalsNM$106Kansas: median $76 across 64 hospitalsKS$76Arkansas: median $41 across 38 hospitalsAR$41Tennessee: median $61 across 47 hospitalsTN$61North Carolina: median $86 across 43 hospitalsNC$86South Carolina: median $174 across 40 hospitalsSC$174Oklahoma: median $89 across 59 hospitalsOK$89Louisiana: median $54 across 43 hospitalsLA$54Mississippi: median $64 across 45 hospitalsMS$64Alabama: median $72 across 28 hospitalsAL$72Georgia: median $83 across 67 hospitalsGA$83Hawaii: median $121 across 18 hospitalsHI$121Texas: median $145 across 183 hospitalsTX$145Florida: median $198 across 121 hospitalsFL$198
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $121. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK17$268+120%$70 – $445
Nebraska NE61$257+112%$118 – $301
Arizona AZ32$245+102%$81 – $515
South Dakota SD32$204+68%$106 – $285
Florida FL121$198+63%$76 – $445
Colorado CO55$196+62%$47 – $352
Idaho ID21$181+49%$94 – $192
South Carolina SC40$174+43%$82 – $210
Vermont VT11$161+33%$46 – $309
Wyoming WY10$160+32%$13 – $246
California CA164$157+29%$88 – $267
Nevada NV17$157+29%$57 – $269
Ohio OH106$156+29%$71 – $238
North Dakota ND14$148+22%$40 – $224
Texas TX183$145+19%$54 – $315
Minnesota MN86$141+16%$56 – $210
Iowa IA78$139+15%$85 – $218
Indiana IN79$137+12%$46 – $222
New Jersey NJ26$131+8%$30 – $501
Missouri MO72$128+6%$56 – $237
Kentucky KY57$128+5%$56 – $228
Virginia VA61$126+4%$58 – $221
Hawaii HI18$121−1%$65 – $143
Connecticut CT19$117−3%$38 – $258
Wisconsin WI81$116−4%$54 – $205
Illinois IL113$115−5%$69 – $216
Massachusetts MA46$113−7%$33 – $165
Maryland MD40$113−7%$90 – $261
Utah UT35$109−10%$109 – $137
New Mexico NM24$106−13%$36 – $141
Washington WA62$103−15%$60 – $160
West Virginia WV33$103−16%$57 – $197
Pennsylvania PA91$102−16%$58 – $164
Oregon OR44$101−16%$12 – $266
Oklahoma OK59$89−27%$35 – $150
Montana MT18$88−28%$20 – $157
Michigan MI85$88−28%$25 – $141
North Carolina NC43$86−29%$54 – $143
Georgia GA67$83−31%$60 – $213
New Hampshire NH18$82−33%$50 – $315
Kansas KS64$76−37%$25 – $148
Alabama AL28$72−41%$31 – $115
New York NY80$66−45%$25 – $178
Mississippi MS45$64−47%$24 – $189
Maine ME24$63−48%$25 – $148
Tennessee TN47$61−50%$32 – $119
Louisiana LA43$54−56%$18 – $102
Arkansas AR38$41−66%$23 – $122
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $121.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,831$121$54 – $237
Children’s57$119$57 – $252
Critical access728$122$44 – $218
Ownership
For-profit336$162$58 – $383
Government445$115$41 – $208
Non-profit1,835$120$52 – $226
System affiliation
Part of a system2,147$126$54 – $242
Independent475$102$33 – $202

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$200
Median cash price$121
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

1,926 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $125 and the average of the middle 60% is $132; most fall between $55 and $229.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,926 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
$30$63$125$209$314

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $314).

Of the 2,088 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,926 gave a usable cash price; 62 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 100 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,622 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (66%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,899 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,622
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here108
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded166
Hospitals that filed this code2,899

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 Multiple 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 checks, several readings (CPT 94761) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94761-blood-oxygen-checks-several-readings