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Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Daily hospital visit, high complexity

CPT 99233the billing code this page is about

A clinician's follow-up visit on one day of a hospital inpatient or observation stay for a complex or worsening problem, about 50 minutes of care; billed once for each day it applies.

Hospitals typically charge $193 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,194 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $193. Most fall between $115 and $278 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,194
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 1,194 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
$86$126$193$255$340

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $340).

How the prices are spread

$63 – $76: 30 hospitals$63$76 – $91: 54 hospitals$91 – $109: 77 hospitals$91$109 – $131: 89 hospitals$131 – $158: 115 hospitals$131$158 – $190: 156 hospitals$190 – $228: 189 hospitals$190$228 – $274: 175 hospitals$274 – $329: 109 hospitals$274$329 – $396: 83 hospitals$329median $193price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,077 of 1,194 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$63$7630
$76$9154
$91$10977
$109$13189
$131$158115
$158$190156
$190$228189
$228$274175
$274$329109
$329$39683

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $193.

Alaska: median $415 across 15 hospitalsAK$415Maine: median $162 across 23 hospitalsME$162Vermont: median $180 across 12 hospitalsVT$180New Hampshire: median $147 across 15 hospitalsNH$147Washington: median $214 across 38 hospitalsWA$214Idaho: median $226 across 12 hospitalsID$226Montana: median $195 across 28 hospitalsMT$195North Dakota: median $274 across 18 hospitalsND$274Minnesota: median $261 across 57 hospitalsMN$261Illinois: median $205 across 59 hospitalsIL$205Wisconsin: median $254 across 43 hospitalsWI$254Michigan: median $152 across 44 hospitalsMI$152New York: median $198 across 49 hospitalsNY$198Massachusetts: median $220 across 14 hospitalsMA$220Oregon: median $270 across 43 hospitalsOR$270Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $201 across 12 hospitalsWY$201South Dakota: median $261 across 27 hospitalsSD$261Iowa: median $218 across 80 hospitalsIA$218Indiana: median $122 across 40 hospitalsIN$122Ohio: median $238 across 30 hospitalsOH$238Pennsylvania: median $109 across 33 hospitalsPA$109New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $267 across 13 hospitalsCT$267Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $240 across 40 hospitalsCA$240Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $192 across 24 hospitalsCO$192Nebraska: median $206 across 36 hospitalsNE$206Missouri: median $150 across 32 hospitalsMO$150Kentucky: median $109 across 26 hospitalsKY$109West Virginia: median $153 across 20 hospitalsWV$153Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $320 across 10 hospitalsAZ$320New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $167 across 53 hospitalsKS$167Arkansas: median $125 across 11 hospitalsAR$125Tennessee: median $90 across 18 hospitalsTN$90North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $162 across 31 hospitalsOK$162Louisiana: median $92 across 13 hospitalsLA$92Mississippi: median $111 across 19 hospitalsMS$111Alabama: median $126 across 12 hospitalsAL$126Georgia: median $123 across 30 hospitalsGA$123Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $188 across 23 hospitalsTX$188Florida: median $168 across 21 hospitalsFL$168
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $193. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK15$415+115%$306 – $613
Arizona AZ10$320+66%$80 – $1,170
North Dakota ND18$274+42%$215 – $316
Oregon OR43$270+40%$214 – $338
Connecticut CT13$267+39%$185 – $290
South Dakota SD27$261+35%$174 – $293
Minnesota MN57$261+35%$174 – $342
Wisconsin WI43$254+32%$244 – $389
California CA40$240+24%$86 – $383
Ohio OH30$238+23%$119 – $436
Idaho ID12$226+17%$183 – $235
Massachusetts MA14$220+14%$170 – $345
Iowa IA80$218+13%$166 – $266
Washington WA38$214+11%$165 – $298
Nebraska NE36$206+7%$150 – $245
Illinois IL59$205+6%$99 – $320
Wyoming WY12$201+4%$158 – $292
New York NY49$198+3%$103 – $322
Montana MT28$195+1%$145 – $313
Colorado CO24$1920%$149 – $249
Texas TX23$188−3%$116 – $307
Vermont VT12$180−7%$145 – $353
Florida FL21$168−13%$72 – $289
Kansas KS53$167−13%$124 – $205
Oklahoma OK31$162−16%$104 – $185
Maine ME23$162−16%$69 – $271
West Virginia WV20$153−21%$109 – $222
Michigan MI44$152−21%$44 – $180
Missouri MO32$150−22%$99 – $193
New Hampshire NH15$147−24%$115 – $165
Alabama AL12$126−35%$86 – $183
Arkansas AR11$125−35%$86 – $180
Georgia GA30$123−36%$93 – $258
Indiana IN40$122−37%$84 – $208
Mississippi MS19$111−42%$58 – $157
Kentucky KY26$109−43%$99 – $200
Pennsylvania PA33$109−44%$73 – $247
Louisiana LA13$92−53%$35 – $154
Tennessee TN18$90−53%$27 – $136
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $193.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care579$175$93 – $269
Children’s20$245$124 – $321
Critical access593$200$134 – $287
Ownership
For-profit60$150$96 – $244
Government335$190$122 – $276
Non-profit797$197$114 – $286
System affiliation
Part of a system832$193$109 – $275
Independent362$195$122 – $287

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$272
Median cash price$193
Cash as a share of list, median hospital72%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 28%. 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

725 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $205 and the average of the middle 60% is $200; most fall between $118 and $290.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 725 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
$86$136$205$269$338

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $338).

Of the 781 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 725 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,194 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,284 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,194
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded75
Hospitals that filed this code1,284

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 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 Sbsq Hospital IP/Obs Care High Mdm 50 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Daily hospital visit, high complexity (CPT 99233) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99233-daily-hospital-visit-high-complexity