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Procedure price report · Other physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation

Wheelchair fitting and training, each 15 minutes

CPT 97542the billing code this page is about

One-on-one assessment, fitting, and training in the use of a wheelchair; each unit covers 15 minutes of direct contact.

Hospitals typically charge $81 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,040 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $83. Most fall between $47 and $133 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,040
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 3,040 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
$34$53$81$119$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $184).

How the prices are spread

$28 – $35: 170 hospitals$28$35 – $43: 202 hospitals$43 – $53: 262 hospitals$43$53 – $66: 345 hospitals$66 – $82: 401 hospitals$66$82 – $101: 442 hospitals$101 – $125: 376 hospitals$101$125 – $154: 247 hospitals$154 – $191: 185 hospitals$154$191 – $236: 110 hospitals$191median $81price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,740 of 3,040 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$28$35170
$35$43202
$43$53262
$53$66345
$66$82401
$82$101442
$101$125376
$125$154247
$154$191185
$191$236110

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $81.

Alaska: median $142 across 19 hospitalsAK$142Maine: median $62 across 26 hospitalsME$62Vermont: median $95 across 11 hospitalsVT$95New Hampshire: median $64 across 18 hospitalsNH$64Washington: median $88 across 65 hospitalsWA$88Idaho: median $73 across 22 hospitalsID$73Montana: median $72 across 31 hospitalsMT$72North Dakota: median $114 across 23 hospitalsND$114Minnesota: median $77 across 96 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $101 across 124 hospitalsIL$101Wisconsin: median $88 across 96 hospitalsWI$88Michigan: median $78 across 90 hospitalsMI$78New York: median $76 across 98 hospitalsNY$76Massachusetts: median $106 across 41 hospitalsMA$106Oregon: median $86 across 53 hospitalsOR$86Nevada: median $79 across 21 hospitalsNV$79Wyoming: median $68 across 15 hospitalsWY$68South Dakota: median $116 across 33 hospitalsSD$116Iowa: median $72 across 78 hospitalsIA$72Indiana: median $74 across 87 hospitalsIN$74Ohio: median $88 across 135 hospitalsOH$88Pennsylvania: median $85 across 117 hospitalsPA$85New Jersey: median $40 across 43 hospitalsNJ$40Connecticut: median $129 across 18 hospitalsCT$129Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $116 across 172 hospitalsCA$116Utah: median $93 across 33 hospitalsUT$93Colorado: median $93 across 68 hospitalsCO$93Nebraska: median $86 across 71 hospitalsNE$86Missouri: median $63 across 74 hospitalsMO$63Kentucky: median $74 across 59 hospitalsKY$74West Virginia: median $74 across 26 hospitalsWV$74Virginia: median $70 across 63 hospitalsVA$70Maryland: median $94 across 38 hospitalsMD$94Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $61 across 53 hospitalsAZ$61New Mexico: median $87 across 27 hospitalsNM$87Kansas: median $59 across 76 hospitalsKS$59Arkansas: median $58 across 22 hospitalsAR$58Tennessee: median $41 across 77 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $63 across 87 hospitalsNC$63South Carolina: median $106 across 49 hospitalsSC$106Oklahoma: median $49 across 60 hospitalsOK$49Louisiana: median $36 across 47 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $45 across 54 hospitalsMS$45Alabama: median $56 across 39 hospitalsAL$56Georgia: median $44 across 100 hospitalsGA$44Hawaii: median $124 across 19 hospitalsHI$124Texas: median $112 across 209 hospitalsTX$112Florida: median $136 across 142 hospitalsFL$136
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $81. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$142+74%$99 – $222
Florida FL142$136+67%$60 – $259
Connecticut CT18$129+58%$81 – $133
Hawaii HI19$124+52%$92 – $167
California CA172$116+43%$63 – $188
South Dakota SD33$116+43%$90 – $126
North Dakota ND23$114+40%$102 – $140
Texas TX209$112+37%$61 – $172
South Carolina SC49$106+30%$72 – $140
Massachusetts MA41$106+30%$69 – $159
Illinois IL124$101+24%$55 – $142
Vermont VT11$95+17%$87 – $142
Maryland MD38$94+15%$65 – $134
Utah UT33$93+14%$80 – $117
Colorado CO68$93+14%$66 – $127
Ohio OH135$88+8%$65 – $157
Washington WA65$88+8%$55 – $120
Wisconsin WI96$88+7%$65 – $109
New Mexico NM27$87+7%$48 – $109
Oregon OR53$86+6%$68 – $127
Nebraska NE71$86+6%$54 – $119
Pennsylvania PA117$85+4%$49 – $166
Nevada NV21$79−3%$33 – $149
Michigan MI90$78−4%$48 – $116
Minnesota MN96$77−5%$59 – $113
New York NY98$76−7%$36 – $148
West Virginia WV26$74−9%$57 – $116
Indiana IN87$74−9%$45 – $88
Kentucky KY59$74−9%$53 – $155
Idaho ID22$73−11%$54 – $90
Iowa IA78$72−12%$50 – $97
Montana MT31$72−12%$54 – $96
Virginia VA63$70−15%$40 – $91
Wyoming WY15$68−16%$51 – $103
New Hampshire NH18$64−21%$51 – $200
North Carolina NC87$63−22%$36 – $86
Missouri MO74$63−23%$45 – $97
Maine ME26$62−24%$29 – $119
Arizona AZ53$61−26%$23 – $310
Kansas KS76$59−28%$37 – $82
Arkansas AR22$58−29%$37 – $74
Alabama AL39$56−31%$33 – $131
Oklahoma OK60$49−40%$30 – $72
Mississippi MS54$45−45%$29 – $68
Georgia GA100$44−46%$28 – $120
Tennessee TN77$41−50%$24 – $72
New Jersey NJ43$40−51%$38 – $168
Louisiana LA47$36−55%$27 – $63
Rhode Island RI9not 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 $81.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,121$81$43 – $137
Children’s68$131$69 – $190
Critical access842$78$53 – $117
Ownership
For-profit383$110$47 – $259
Government561$75$46 – $119
Non-profit2,087$81$47 – $126
System affiliation
Part of a system2,489$84$47 – $135
Independent551$73$46 – $119

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$136
Median cash price$81
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

2,114 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $83 and the average of the middle 60% is $84; most fall between $47 and $129.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,114 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
$34$53$83$118$165

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $165).

Of the 2,241 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,114 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 103 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,040 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (77%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,219 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,040
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded132
Hospitals that filed this code3,219

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 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 physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Wheelchair Mgmt Ea 15 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, “Wheelchair fitting and training, each 15 minutes (CPT 97542) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97542-wheelchair-fitting-and-training-each-15-minutes