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Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Hospital stay admitted and discharged same day, middle level

CPT 99235the 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 70 minutes of clinician time.

Hospitals typically charge $328 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,048 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $326. Most fall between $203 and $464 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,048
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,048 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
$144$224$328$422$585

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($144 vs $585).

How the prices are spread

$104 – $127: 27 hospitals$104$127 – $154: 37 hospitals$154 – $186: 68 hospitals$154$186 – $226: 84 hospitals$226 – $274: 112 hospitals$226$274 – $333: 158 hospitals$333 – $403: 209 hospitals$333$403 – $489: 124 hospitals$489 – $594: 76 hospitals$489$594 – $720: 49 hospitals$594median $328price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (944 of 1,048 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$104$12727
$127$15437
$154$18668
$186$22684
$226$274112
$274$333158
$333$403209
$403$489124
$489$59476
$594$72049

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $328.

Alaska: median $733 across 15 hospitalsAK$733Maine: median $343 across 23 hospitalsME$343Vermont: median $318 across 13 hospitalsVT$318New Hampshire: median $240 across 13 hospitalsNH$240Washington: median $374 across 31 hospitalsWA$374Idaho: median $335 across 10 hospitalsID$335Montana: median $374 across 26 hospitalsMT$374North Dakota: median $414 across 18 hospitalsND$414Minnesota: median $390 across 55 hospitalsMN$390Illinois: median $387 across 51 hospitalsIL$387Wisconsin: median $373 across 44 hospitalsWI$373Michigan: median $260 across 46 hospitalsMI$260New York: median $332 across 45 hospitalsNY$332Massachusetts: median $406 across 10 hospitalsMA$406Oregon: median $361 across 34 hospitalsOR$361Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $415 across 11 hospitalsWY$415South Dakota: median $412 across 24 hospitalsSD$412Iowa: median $311 across 74 hospitalsIA$311Indiana: median $178 across 28 hospitalsIN$178Ohio: median $384 across 25 hospitalsOH$384Pennsylvania: median $211 across 28 hospitalsPA$211New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $390 across 10 hospitalsCT$390Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $424 across 34 hospitalsCA$424Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $306 across 22 hospitalsCO$306Nebraska: median $330 across 35 hospitalsNE$330Missouri: median $267 across 27 hospitalsMO$267Kentucky: median $185 across 20 hospitalsKY$185West Virginia: median $233 across 21 hospitalsWV$233Virginia: 7 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 $273 across 53 hospitalsKS$273Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $171 across 17 hospitalsTN$171North 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 $297 across 33 hospitalsOK$297Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $237 across 11 hospitalsMS$237Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $254 across 24 hospitalsGA$254Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $337 across 19 hospitalsTX$337Florida: median $470 across 16 hospitalsFL$470
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $328. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK15$733+124%$460 – $917
Florida FL16$470+43%$226 – $658
California CA34$424+29%$110 – $644
Wyoming WY11$415+27%$257 – $486
North Dakota ND18$414+26%$272 – $512
South Dakota SD24$412+26%$345 – $624
Massachusetts MA10$406+24%$272 – $489
Connecticut CT10$390+19%$192 – $390
Minnesota MN55$390+19%$266 – $615
Illinois IL51$387+18%$271 – $578
Ohio OH25$384+17%$205 – $842
Montana MT26$374+14%$274 – $516
Washington WA31$374+14%$326 – $573
Wisconsin WI44$373+14%$341 – $669
Oregon OR34$361+10%$287 – $554
Maine ME23$343+5%$161 – $441
Texas TX19$337+3%$157 – $542
Idaho ID10$335+2%$270 – $378
New York NY45$332+1%$124 – $443
Nebraska NE35$330+1%$260 – $395
Vermont VT13$318−3%$240 – $448
Iowa IA74$311−5%$254 – $420
Colorado CO22$306−7%$235 – $385
Oklahoma OK33$297−9%$167 – $401
Kansas KS53$273−17%$201 – $340
Missouri MO27$267−19%$195 – $410
Michigan MI46$260−21%$157 – $362
Georgia GA24$254−23%$156 – $359
New Hampshire NH13$240−27%$187 – $319
Mississippi MS11$237−28%$160 – $246
West Virginia WV21$233−29%$174 – $374
Pennsylvania PA28$211−36%$102 – $335
Kentucky KY20$185−44%$138 – $270
Indiana IN28$178−46%$124 – $326
Tennessee TN17$171−48%$89 – $207
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not 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 $328.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care468$302$164 – $437
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access564$345$230 – $468
Ownership
For-profit54$260$138 – $414
Government309$335$208 – $469
Non-profit683$330$207 – $460
System affiliation
Part of a system714$331$195 – $456
Independent334$326$208 – $488

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$440
Median cash price$328
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

612 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $323 and the average of the middle 60% is $324; most fall between $204 and $466.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 612 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
$156$224$323$422$556

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($156 vs $556).

Of the 660 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 612 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 46 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,048 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 1,123 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,048
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
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 — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,123

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 Mod Mdm 70 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, middle level (CPT 99235) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99235-hospital-stay-admitted-and-discharged-same-day-middle-level