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Car seat breathing test for an infant, first 60 minutes

CPT 94780the billing code this page is about

Infant is monitored for breathing, heart rate, and oxygen level while seated in a car seat or car bed, with interpretation and report; this code covers 60 minutes of monitoring.

Hospitals typically charge $108 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,539 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $111. Most fall between $52 and $197 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,539
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,539 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
$42$60$108$179$305

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $305).

How the prices are spread

$30 – $39: 59 hospitals$30$39 – $52: 173 hospitals$52 – $68: 149 hospitals$52$68 – $89: 179 hospitals$89 – $117: 187 hospitals$89$117 – $153: 251 hospitals$153 – $201: 161 hospitals$153$201 – $264: 119 hospitals$264 – $347: 59 hospitals$264$347 – $455: 52 hospitals$347median $108price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,389 of 1,539 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$30$3959
$39$52173
$52$68149
$68$89179
$89$117187
$117$153251
$153$201161
$201$264119
$264$34759
$347$45552

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$108
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.8×

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 $108.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $101 across 13 hospitalsME$101Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $73 across 14 hospitalsNH$73Washington: median $96 across 37 hospitalsWA$96Idaho: median $90 across 14 hospitalsID$90Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $180 across 37 hospitalsMN$180Illinois: median $106 across 55 hospitalsIL$106Wisconsin: median $130 across 73 hospitalsWI$130Michigan: median $125 across 50 hospitalsMI$125New York: median $48 across 41 hospitalsNY$48Massachusetts: median $113 across 21 hospitalsMA$113Oregon: median $141 across 32 hospitalsOR$141Nevada: median $126 across 10 hospitalsNV$126Wyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $157 across 13 hospitalsSD$157Iowa: median $117 across 49 hospitalsIA$117Indiana: median $157 across 48 hospitalsIN$157Ohio: median $101 across 75 hospitalsOH$101Pennsylvania: median $74 across 65 hospitalsPA$74New Jersey: median $46 across 19 hospitalsNJ$46Connecticut: median $85 across 14 hospitalsCT$85Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $75 across 74 hospitalsCA$75Utah: median $144 across 28 hospitalsUT$144Colorado: median $182 across 27 hospitalsCO$182Nebraska: median $138 across 36 hospitalsNE$138Missouri: median $79 across 34 hospitalsMO$79Kentucky: median $88 across 24 hospitalsKY$88West Virginia: median $91 across 11 hospitalsWV$91Virginia: median $55 across 28 hospitalsVA$55Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $265 across 23 hospitalsAZ$265New Mexico: median $62 across 10 hospitalsNM$62Kansas: median $88 across 16 hospitalsKS$88Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $50 across 38 hospitalsTN$50North Carolina: median $82 across 56 hospitalsNC$82South Carolina: median $135 across 36 hospitalsSC$135Oklahoma: median $100 across 28 hospitalsOK$100Louisiana: median $63 across 25 hospitalsLA$63Mississippi: median $38 across 16 hospitalsMS$38Alabama: median $58 across 20 hospitalsAL$58Georgia: median $117 across 62 hospitalsGA$117Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $142 across 140 hospitalsTX$142Florida: median $116 across 69 hospitalsFL$116
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $108. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ23$265+146%$91 – $815
Colorado CO27$182+69%$97 – $249
Minnesota MN37$180+67%$85 – $1,019
South Dakota SD13$157+46%$105 – $157
Indiana IN48$157+45%$42 – $289
Utah UT28$144+33%$127 – $144
Texas TX140$142+32%$62 – $237
Oregon OR32$141+31%$85 – $184
Nebraska NE36$138+28%$82 – $220
South Carolina SC36$135+25%$125 – $219
Wisconsin WI73$130+21%$67 – $203
Nevada NV10$126+16%$36 – $187
Michigan MI50$125+16%$55 – $142
Georgia GA62$117+9%$81 – $232
Iowa IA49$117+8%$76 – $178
Florida FL69$116+8%$68 – $419
Massachusetts MA21$113+5%$89 – $284
Illinois IL55$106−1%$46 – $207
Ohio OH75$101−6%$75 – $138
Maine ME13$101−7%$36 – $135
Oklahoma OK28$100−7%$46 – $176
Washington WA37$96−11%$55 – $154
West Virginia WV11$91−16%$70 – $149
Idaho ID14$90−16%$90 – $236
Kansas KS16$88−18%$56 – $223
Kentucky KY24$88−18%$29 – $129
Connecticut CT14$85−21%$62 – $213
North Carolina NC56$82−24%$52 – $125
Missouri MO34$79−27%$60 – $126
California CA74$75−31%$41 – $345
Pennsylvania PA65$74−31%$38 – $138
New Hampshire NH14$73−32%$30 – $267
Louisiana LA25$63−41%$43 – $105
New Mexico NM10$62−42%$40 – $181
Alabama AL20$58−46%$33 – $97
Virginia VA28$55−49%$48 – $279
Tennessee TN38$50−54%$40 – $62
New York NY41$48−56%$46 – $158
New Jersey NJ19$46−57%$43 – $54
Mississippi MS16$38−65%$29 – $126
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $108.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,268$101$50 – $194
Children’s26$167$81 – $497
Critical access240$130$68 – $202
Ownership
For-profit179$111$44 – $239
Government211$91$49 – $168
Non-profit1,144$112$55 – $197
System affiliation
Part of a system1,320$111$52 – $202
Independent219$96$51 – $183

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$190
Median cash price$108
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

1,201 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $116 and the average of the middle 60% is $118; most fall between $58 and $213.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,201 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
$44$66$116$181$324

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $324).

Of the 1,260 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,201 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,539 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,610 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,539
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded47
Hospitals that filed this code1,610

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 Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Car Seat/Bed Test Inft Thru 12 Mo 60 Min.

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, “Car seat breathing test for an infant, first 60 minutes (CPT 94780) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-94780-car-seat-breathing-test-for-an-infant-first-60-minutes