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Procedure price report · Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment

Camera-based eye screening, both eyes, analyzed off site

CPT 99174the billing code this page is about

An instrument photographs or measures both eyes to screen for vision problems; the images are sent elsewhere for interpretation and a report.

Hospitals typically charge $25 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 160 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $25. Most fall between $11 and $53 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
160
States
36
Filings dated
Sep 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 160 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
$9$12$25$43$77

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $77).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $9: 12 hospitals$7$9 – $12: 25 hospitals$12 – $16: 26 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 7 hospitals$22 – $30: 25 hospitals$22$30 – $41: 16 hospitals$41 – $55: 15 hospitals$41$55 – $75: 13 hospitals$75 – $101: 7 hospitals$75$101 – $137: 3 hospitals$101median $25price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (149 of 160 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$912
$9$1225
$12$1626
$16$227
$22$3025
$30$4116
$41$5515
$55$7513
$75$1017
$101$1373

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $25.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $58 across 11 hospitalsMN$58Illinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $30 across 11 hospitalsMI$30New York: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $14 across 11 hospitalsIA$14Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable pricePANew Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $7 across 13 hospitalsSC$7Oklahoma: median $9 across 10 hospitalsOK$9Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $25. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN11$58+132%$50 – $58
Michigan MI11$30+20%$30 – $42
Iowa IA11$14−46%$14 – $14
Oklahoma OK10$9−64%$9 – $9
South Carolina SC13$7−74%$7 – $7
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $25.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care118$23$9 – $47
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$29$13 – $58
Ownership
For-profit13fewer than 20 hospitals
Government22$27$16 – $43
Non-profit125$22$10 – $58
System affiliation
Part of a system127$25$10 – $47
Independent33$27$14 – $60

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$51
Median cash price$25
Cash as a share of list, median hospital67%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 33%. 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

113 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $15 and the average of the middle 60% is $21; most fall between $9 and $58.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 113 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
$7$12$15$43$83

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $83).

Of the 118 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 113 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

160 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 187 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted160
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code187

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Ophthalmologic and otologic diagnosis and treatment family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as OCULAR INSTRUMNT SCREEN BIL.

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, “Camera-based eye screening, both eyes, analyzed off site (CPT 99174) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99174-camera-based-eye-screening-both-eyes-analyzed-off-site