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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue

Breathing challenge test with inhaled medication

CPT 95070the billing code this page is about

An inhaled agent such as histamine or methacholine is given in measured doses to see whether the airways narrow; separate breathing tests done with it are billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $595 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,116 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $620. Most fall between $260 and $1,150 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,116
States
49
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 1,116 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
$97$326$595$997$1,455

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($97 vs $1,455).

How the prices are spread

$51 – $74: 53 hospitals$51$74 – $108: 46 hospitals$108 – $158: 25 hospitals$108$158 – $230: 43 hospitals$230 – $334: 88 hospitals$230$334 – $487: 159 hospitals$487 – $708: 239 hospitals$487$708 – $1,031: 158 hospitals$1,031 – $1,500: 164 hospitals$1,031$1,500 – $2,184: 52 hospitals$1,500median $595price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,027 of 1,116 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$51$7453
$74$10846
$108$15825
$158$23043
$230$33488
$334$487159
$487$708239
$708$1,031158
$1,031$1,500164
$1,500$2,18452

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$381
Median cash price$595
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.56×

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 $595.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $338 across 11 hospitalsNH$338Washington: median $646 across 30 hospitalsWA$646Idaho: median $813 across 10 hospitalsID$813Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $533 across 48 hospitalsMN$533Illinois: median $560 across 41 hospitalsIL$560Wisconsin: median $421 across 45 hospitalsWI$421Michigan: median $441 across 56 hospitalsMI$441New York: median $628 across 55 hospitalsNY$628Massachusetts: median $1,155 across 19 hospitalsMA$1,155Oregon: median $1,320 across 19 hospitalsOR$1,320Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $101 across 26 hospitalsIA$101Indiana: median $707 across 38 hospitalsIN$707Ohio: median $698 across 63 hospitalsOH$698Pennsylvania: median $769 across 62 hospitalsPA$769New Jersey: median $588 across 30 hospitalsNJ$588Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,202 across 74 hospitalsCA$1,202Utah: median $51 across 28 hospitalsUT$51Colorado: median $499 across 38 hospitalsCO$499Nebraska: median $219 across 14 hospitalsNE$219Missouri: median $609 across 27 hospitalsMO$609Kentucky: median $339 across 13 hospitalsKY$339West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $633 across 29 hospitalsVA$633Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $194 across 10 hospitalsAZ$194New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $333 across 20 hospitalsKS$333Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $106 across 25 hospitalsTN$106North Carolina: median $396 across 25 hospitalsNC$396South Carolina: median $595 across 10 hospitalsSC$595Oklahoma: median $590 across 21 hospitalsOK$590Louisiana: median $277 across 16 hospitalsLA$277Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $586 across 37 hospitalsGA$586Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $752 across 59 hospitalsTX$752Florida: median $1,213 across 30 hospitalsFL$1,213
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $595. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR19$1,320+122%$813 – $2,321
Florida FL30$1,213+104%$533 – $3,542
California CA74$1,202+102%$578 – $1,417
Massachusetts MA19$1,155+94%$634 – $1,900
Idaho ID10$813+36%$410 – $2,502
Pennsylvania PA62$769+29%$439 – $2,044
Texas TX59$752+26%$668 – $877
Indiana IN38$707+19%$374 – $882
Ohio OH63$698+17%$573 – $1,228
Washington WA30$646+8%$290 – $883
Virginia VA29$633+6%$271 – $991
New York NY55$628+5%$343 – $1,273
Missouri MO27$609+2%$200 – $1,120
South Carolina SC10$5950%$48 – $726
Oklahoma OK21$590−1%$384 – $776
New Jersey NJ30$588−1%$432 – $708
Georgia GA37$586−2%$400 – $976
Illinois IL41$560−6%$134 – $945
Minnesota MN48$533−10%$299 – $1,105
Colorado CO38$499−16%$330 – $1,150
Michigan MI56$441−26%$38 – $591
Wisconsin WI45$421−29%$196 – $613
North Carolina NC25$396−34%$45 – $565
Kentucky KY13$339−43%$74 – $523
New Hampshire NH11$338−43%$116 – $963
Kansas KS20$333−44%$210 – $1,120
Louisiana LA16$277−53%$177 – $409
Nebraska NE14$219−63%$130 – $759
Arizona AZ10$194−67%$177 – $559
Tennessee TN25$106−82%$63 – $263
Iowa IA26$101−83%$97 – $620
Utah UT28$51−91%$51 – $358
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $595.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care927$612$281 – $1,193
Children’s23$570$149 – $1,038
Critical access159$458$97 – $942
Ownership
For-profit106$595$356 – $1,315
Government118$520$263 – $920
Non-profit885$604$253 – $1,168
System affiliation
Part of a system971$613$271 – $1,168
Independent145$494$110 – $1,005

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,108
Median cash price$595
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

841 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $595 and the average of the middle 60% is $619; most fall between $238 and $1,150.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 841 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
$79$308$595$1,019$1,484

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($79 vs $1,484).

Of the 897 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 841 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,116 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,197 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,116
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
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 — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,197

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 on skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Inhlj Brncl Challenge Tstg W/Histamine/Methachol.

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, “Breathing challenge test with inhaled medication (CPT 95070) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95070-breathing-challenge-test-with-inhaled-medication