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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures of respiratory tract and mediastinum

Nitric oxide measurement in exhaled breath

CPT 95012the billing code this page is about

Measures the level of nitric oxide in air breathed out, a marker of airway inflammation; billed once per measurement.

Hospitals typically charge $92 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,000 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $93. Most fall between $41 and $154 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,000
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 1,000 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
$29$46$92$144$226

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $226).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $26: 39 hospitals$20$26 – $34: 56 hospitals$34 – $44: 91 hospitals$34$44 – $58: 81 hospitals$58 – $75: 96 hospitals$58$75 – $98: 127 hospitals$98 – $127: 155 hospitals$98$127 – $165: 156 hospitals$165 – $215: 36 hospitals$165$215 – $280: 67 hospitals$215median $92price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (904 of 1,000 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2639
$26$3456
$34$4491
$44$5881
$58$7596
$75$98127
$98$127155
$127$165156
$165$21536
$215$28067

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$92
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $92.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $31 across 10 hospitalsNH$31Washington: median $71 across 18 hospitalsWA$71Idaho: median $90 across 10 hospitalsID$90Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $102 across 57 hospitalsMN$102Illinois: median $78 across 49 hospitalsIL$78Wisconsin: median $103 across 56 hospitalsWI$103Michigan: median $41 across 36 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $55 across 49 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $119 across 15 hospitalsMA$119Oregon: median $80 across 20 hospitalsOR$80Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $64 across 25 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $85 across 42 hospitalsIN$85Ohio: median $78 across 58 hospitalsOH$78Pennsylvania: median $111 across 47 hospitalsPA$111New Jersey: median $48 across 22 hospitalsNJ$48Connecticut: median $83 across 10 hospitalsCT$83Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $271 across 71 hospitalsCA$271Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $67 across 11 hospitalsCO$67Nebraska: median $37 across 10 hospitalsNE$37Missouri: median $60 across 19 hospitalsMO$60Kentucky: median $46 across 16 hospitalsKY$46West Virginia: median $43 across 12 hospitalsWV$43Virginia: median $127 across 25 hospitalsVA$127Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $21 across 10 hospitalsTN$21North Carolina: median $97 across 24 hospitalsNC$97South Carolina: median $66 across 22 hospitalsSC$66Oklahoma: median $40 across 12 hospitalsOK$40Louisiana: median $82 across 17 hospitalsLA$82Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $116 across 27 hospitalsGA$116Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $135 across 79 hospitalsTX$135Florida: median $114 across 41 hospitalsFL$114
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $92. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA71$271+196%$100 – $321
Texas TX79$135+47%$51 – $164
Virginia VA25$127+39%$34 – $146
Massachusetts MA15$119+29%$61 – $219
Georgia GA27$116+27%$97 – $122
Florida FL41$114+25%$96 – $146
Pennsylvania PA47$111+22%$66 – $226
Wisconsin WI56$103+12%$67 – $128
Minnesota MN57$102+12%$80 – $147
North Carolina NC24$97+6%$35 – $97
Idaho ID10$90−2%$37 – $109
Indiana IN42$85−8%$34 – $235
Connecticut CT10$83−9%$54 – $132
Louisiana LA17$82−11%$36 – $114
Oregon OR20$80−13%$34 – $80
Illinois IL49$78−15%$30 – $218
Ohio OH58$78−15%$66 – $154
Washington WA18$71−23%$60 – $193
Colorado CO11$67−27%$37 – $122
South Carolina SC22$66−28%$44 – $120
Iowa IA25$64−30%$58 – $141
Missouri MO19$60−34%$21 – $131
New York NY49$55−40%$40 – $122
New Jersey NJ22$48−47%$43 – $66
Kentucky KY16$46−50%$19 – $158
West Virginia WV12$43−53%$39 – $124
Michigan MI36$41−55%$23 – $86
Oklahoma OK12$40−56%$40 – $40
Nebraska NE10$37−60%$25 – $47
New Hampshire NH10$31−66%$13 – $86
Tennessee TN10$21−77%$15 – $31
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $92.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care804$93$41 – $154
Children’s40$118$49 – $375
Critical access156$89$41 – $128
Ownership
For-profit65$98$29 – $154
Government131$86$40 – $122
Non-profit804$93$42 – $155
System affiliation
Part of a system872$96$43 – $154
Independent128$60$33 – $148

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$150
Median cash price$92
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

756 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $98 and the average of the middle 60% is $99; most fall between $44 and $155.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 756 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
$31$53$98$147$232

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($31 vs $232).

Of the 799 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 756 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,000 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (25%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,053 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,000
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code1,053

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 Other diagnostic procedures of respiratory tract and mediastinum family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Nitric Oxide Expired Gas Determination.

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, “Nitric oxide measurement in exhaled breath (CPT 95012) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95012-nitric-oxide-measurement-in-exhaled-breath