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Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Office visit for a new patient, straightforward (level 2)

CPT 99202the billing code this page is about

An outpatient or office visit for a patient new to the practice involving a straightforward medical problem, typically 15 to 29 minutes of the clinician's time.

Hospitals typically charge $110 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,571 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $116. Most fall between $59 and $205 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,571
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 2,571 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
$41$67$110$181$300

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $300).

How the prices are spread

$30 – $39: 106 hospitals$30$39 – $51: 154 hospitals$51 – $67: 248 hospitals$51$67 – $87: 344 hospitals$87 – $114: 354 hospitals$87$114 – $150: 398 hospitals$150 – $196: 285 hospitals$150$196 – $256: 214 hospitals$256 – $336: 137 hospitals$256$336 – $439: 75 hospitals$336median $110price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,315 of 2,571 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$30$39106
$39$51154
$51$67248
$67$87344
$87$114354
$114$150398
$150$196285
$196$256214
$256$336137
$336$43975

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $110.

Alaska: median $196 across 15 hospitalsAK$196Maine: median $62 across 27 hospitalsME$62Vermont: median $105 across 13 hospitalsVT$105New Hampshire: median $64 across 21 hospitalsNH$64Washington: median $135 across 51 hospitalsWA$135Idaho: median $112 across 13 hospitalsID$112Montana: median $87 across 24 hospitalsMT$87North Dakota: median $165 across 23 hospitalsND$165Minnesota: median $84 across 87 hospitalsMN$84Illinois: median $123 across 115 hospitalsIL$123Wisconsin: median $125 across 88 hospitalsWI$125Michigan: median $75 across 65 hospitalsMI$75New York: median $161 across 101 hospitalsNY$161Massachusetts: median $164 across 46 hospitalsMA$164Oregon: median $114 across 46 hospitalsOR$114Nevada: median $126 across 17 hospitalsNV$126Wyoming: median $88 across 13 hospitalsWY$88South Dakota: median $133 across 33 hospitalsSD$133Iowa: median $92 across 90 hospitalsIA$92Indiana: median $60 across 70 hospitalsIN$60Ohio: median $98 across 77 hospitalsOH$98Pennsylvania: median $113 across 95 hospitalsPA$113New Jersey: median $81 across 36 hospitalsNJ$81Connecticut: median $120 across 20 hospitalsCT$120Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $135 across 111 hospitalsCA$135Utah: median $222 across 36 hospitalsUT$222Colorado: median $116 across 43 hospitalsCO$116Nebraska: median $98 across 76 hospitalsNE$98Missouri: median $98 across 64 hospitalsMO$98Kentucky: median $85 across 48 hospitalsKY$85West Virginia: median $77 across 37 hospitalsWV$77Virginia: median $106 across 54 hospitalsVA$106Maryland: median $125 across 36 hospitalsMD$125Delaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $119 across 43 hospitalsAZ$119New Mexico: median $94 across 12 hospitalsNM$94Kansas: median $81 across 79 hospitalsKS$81Arkansas: median $81 across 30 hospitalsAR$81Tennessee: median $63 across 60 hospitalsTN$63North Carolina: median $121 across 56 hospitalsNC$121South Carolina: median $138 across 52 hospitalsSC$138Oklahoma: median $81 across 54 hospitalsOK$81Louisiana: median $70 across 41 hospitalsLA$70Mississippi: median $68 across 42 hospitalsMS$68Alabama: median $127 across 31 hospitalsAL$127Georgia: median $137 across 80 hospitalsGA$137Hawaii: median $140 across 14 hospitalsHI$140Texas: median $141 across 149 hospitalsTX$141Florida: median $204 across 123 hospitalsFL$204
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $110. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT36$222+103%$179 – $247
Florida FL123$204+86%$58 – $521
Alaska AK15$196+79%$107 – $319
North Dakota ND23$165+50%$70 – $208
Massachusetts MA46$164+50%$78 – $239
New York NY101$161+47%$72 – $271
Texas TX149$141+29%$60 – $250
Hawaii HI14$140+28%$62 – $265
South Carolina SC52$138+26%$94 – $264
Georgia GA80$137+25%$68 – $205
California CA111$135+24%$75 – $241
Washington WA51$135+23%$84 – $170
South Dakota SD33$133+21%$90 – $189
Alabama AL31$127+16%$56 – $224
Nevada NV17$126+15%$82 – $317
Maryland MD36$125+14%$88 – $190
Wisconsin WI88$125+14%$73 – $180
Illinois IL115$123+12%$82 – $216
North Carolina NC56$121+10%$84 – $192
Connecticut CT20$120+9%$100 – $145
Arizona AZ43$119+9%$48 – $218
Colorado CO43$116+5%$73 – $412
Oregon OR46$114+4%$70 – $142
Pennsylvania PA95$113+3%$59 – $251
Idaho ID13$112+2%$49 – $179
Virginia VA54$106−3%$63 – $187
Vermont VT13$105−4%$54 – $169
Missouri MO64$98−10%$46 – $139
Nebraska NE76$98−11%$72 – $148
Ohio OH77$98−11%$69 – $156
New Mexico NM12$94−14%$47 – $134
Iowa IA90$92−16%$55 – $134
Wyoming WY13$88−19%$48 – $139
Montana MT24$87−21%$48 – $198
Kentucky KY48$85−22%$44 – $170
Minnesota MN87$84−23%$60 – $154
Oklahoma OK54$81−26%$40 – $145
New Jersey NJ36$81−26%$55 – $256
Arkansas AR30$81−26%$49 – $104
Kansas KS79$81−26%$49 – $126
West Virginia WV37$77−30%$49 – $127
Michigan MI65$75−32%$44 – $131
Louisiana LA41$70−37%$40 – $121
Mississippi MS42$68−38%$53 – $117
New Hampshire NH21$64−42%$35 – $119
Tennessee TN60$63−43%$28 – $242
Maine ME27$62−43%$46 – $163
Indiana IN70$60−45%$37 – $129
Rhode Island RI8not 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 $110.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,676$118$62 – $228
Children’s55$219$96 – $292
Critical access835$95$53 – $156
Ownership
For-profit287$181$74 – $454
Government547$90$56 – $152
Non-profit1,732$113$59 – $202
System affiliation
Part of a system2,033$114$59 – $216
Independent538$102$59 – $178

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$178
Median cash price$110
Cash as a share of list, median hospital68%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 32%. 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

1,584 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $119 and the average of the middle 60% is $121; most fall between $63 and $204.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,584 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
$46$71$119$184$301

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $301).

Of the 1,701 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,584 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 96 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,571 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,769 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,571
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded155
Hospitals that filed this code2,769

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 July 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 Office/Outpatient New Sf Mdm 15 Minutes.

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, “Office visit for a new patient, straightforward (level 2) (CPT 99202) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99202-office-visit-for-a-new-patient-straightforward-level-2