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Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Hospital stay admitted and discharged same day, lower level

CPT 99234the billing code this page is about

Covers both the admission and the discharge work when a patient is admitted to inpatient or observation care and released on the same calendar day, about 45 minutes of clinician time.

Hospitals typically charge $235 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,014 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $233. Most fall between $140 and $340 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,014
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 1,014 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
$101$159$235$313$441

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($101 vs $441).

How the prices are spread

$75 – $91: 26 hospitals$75$91 – $110: 50 hospitals$110 – $134: 46 hospitals$110$134 – $163: 94 hospitals$163 – $198: 108 hospitals$163$198 – $240: 151 hospitals$240 – $291: 187 hospitals$240$291 – $354: 111 hospitals$354 – $430: 78 hospitals$354$430 – $522: 63 hospitals$430median $235price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (914 of 1,014 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$75$9126
$91$11050
$110$13446
$134$16394
$163$198108
$198$240151
$240$291187
$291$354111
$354$43078
$430$52263

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $235.

Alaska: median $492 across 14 hospitalsAK$492Maine: median $226 across 23 hospitalsME$226Vermont: median $193 across 13 hospitalsVT$193New Hampshire: median $183 across 12 hospitalsNH$183Washington: median $279 across 30 hospitalsWA$279Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $197 across 29 hospitalsMT$197North Dakota: median $280 across 14 hospitalsND$280Minnesota: median $282 across 54 hospitalsMN$282Illinois: median $291 across 50 hospitalsIL$291Wisconsin: median $286 across 44 hospitalsWI$286Michigan: median $198 across 44 hospitalsMI$198New York: median $235 across 43 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: median $297 across 10 hospitalsMA$297Oregon: median $278 across 33 hospitalsOR$278Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $287 across 11 hospitalsWY$287South Dakota: median $315 across 18 hospitalsSD$315Iowa: median $239 across 72 hospitalsIA$239Indiana: median $117 across 29 hospitalsIN$117Ohio: median $271 across 24 hospitalsOH$271Pennsylvania: median $84 across 27 hospitalsPA$84New Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $240 across 10 hospitalsCT$240Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $317 across 36 hospitalsCA$317Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $233 across 21 hospitalsCO$233Nebraska: median $248 across 35 hospitalsNE$248Missouri: median $195 across 27 hospitalsMO$195Kentucky: median $140 across 21 hospitalsKY$140West Virginia: median $149 across 21 hospitalsWV$149Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $189 across 50 hospitalsKS$189Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $160 across 10 hospitalsTN$160North Carolina: 8 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 $139 across 31 hospitalsOK$139Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $175 across 10 hospitalsMS$175Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $206 across 21 hospitalsGA$206Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $236 across 21 hospitalsTX$236Florida: median $371 across 17 hospitalsFL$371
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $235. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK14$492+109%$387 – $720
Florida FL17$371+58%$139 – $520
California CA36$317+35%$110 – $507
South Dakota SD18$315+34%$231 – $434
Massachusetts MA10$297+26%$211 – $413
Illinois IL50$291+24%$192 – $427
Wyoming WY11$287+22%$203 – $388
Wisconsin WI44$286+22%$221 – $522
Minnesota MN54$282+20%$184 – $463
North Dakota ND14$280+19%$173 – $401
Washington WA30$279+19%$227 – $394
Oregon OR33$278+18%$176 – $438
Ohio OH24$271+15%$150 – $520
Nebraska NE35$248+6%$173 – $304
Connecticut CT10$240+2%$206 – $240
Iowa IA72$239+2%$206 – $318
Texas TX21$2360%$97 – $403
New York NY43$2350%$109 – $299
Colorado CO21$233−1%$165 – $289
Maine ME23$226−4%$92 – $347
Georgia GA21$206−13%$119 – $258
Michigan MI44$198−16%$97 – $261
Montana MT29$197−16%$151 – $388
Missouri MO27$195−17%$138 – $247
Vermont VT13$193−18%$181 – $292
Kansas KS50$189−20%$154 – $270
New Hampshire NH12$183−22%$147 – $278
Mississippi MS10$175−26%$90 – $278
Tennessee TN10$160−32%$105 – $216
West Virginia WV21$149−37%$107 – $286
Kentucky KY21$140−41%$107 – $215
Oklahoma OK31$139−41%$122 – $244
Indiana IN29$117−50%$70 – $240
Pennsylvania PA27$84−64%$63 – $262
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $235.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care464$210$119 – $323
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access535$252$159 – $348
Ownership
For-profit54$160$105 – $301
Government293$248$156 – $345
Non-profit666$231$142 – $337
System affiliation
Part of a system684$232$139 – $323
Independent330$241$152 – $381

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$318
Median cash price$235
Cash as a share of list, median hospital75%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 25%. 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

591 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $238 and the average of the middle 60% is $233; most fall between $140 and $337.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 591 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
$107$159$238$304$432

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($107 vs $432).

Of the 638 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 591 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 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,014 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,087 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,014
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 — excluded58
Hospitals that filed this code1,087

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 Hospital IP/Obs Care Same Date Sf/Low Mdm 45 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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Hospital stay admitted and discharged same day, lower level (CPT 99234) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99234-hospital-stay-admitted-and-discharged-same-day-lower-level