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Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Hospital discharge day, more than 30 minutes

CPT 99239the billing code this page is about

The clinician's work on the day a patient leaves the hospital — final exam, instructions, prescriptions and records — when it takes more than 30 minutes.

Hospitals typically charge $202 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,137 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $200. Most fall between $120 and $288 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,137
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 1,137 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
$92$135$202$267$355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $355).

How the prices are spread

$66 – $79: 21 hospitals$66$79 – $95: 52 hospitals$95 – $114: 52 hospitals$95$114 – $137: 116 hospitals$137 – $165: 123 hospitals$137$165 – $198: 139 hospitals$198 – $238: 169 hospitals$198$238 – $286: 181 hospitals$286 – $344: 100 hospitals$286$344 – $413: 76 hospitals$344median $202price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,029 of 1,137 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$66$7921
$79$9552
$95$11452
$114$137116
$137$165123
$165$198139
$198$238169
$238$286181
$286$344100
$344$41376

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $202.

Alaska: median $391 across 15 hospitalsAK$391Maine: median $181 across 23 hospitalsME$181Vermont: median $181 across 12 hospitalsVT$181New Hampshire: median $142 across 15 hospitalsNH$142Washington: median $228 across 37 hospitalsWA$228Idaho: median $233 across 11 hospitalsID$233Montana: median $197 across 27 hospitalsMT$197North Dakota: median $263 across 20 hospitalsND$263Minnesota: median $255 across 61 hospitalsMN$255Illinois: median $221 across 61 hospitalsIL$221Wisconsin: median $296 across 43 hospitalsWI$296Michigan: median $177 across 47 hospitalsMI$177New York: median $206 across 45 hospitalsNY$206Massachusetts: median $247 across 13 hospitalsMA$247Oregon: median $226 across 36 hospitalsOR$226Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $214 across 12 hospitalsWY$214South Dakota: median $255 across 32 hospitalsSD$255Iowa: median $210 across 77 hospitalsIA$210Indiana: median $103 across 37 hospitalsIN$103Ohio: median $213 across 26 hospitalsOH$213Pennsylvania: median $86 across 31 hospitalsPA$86New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $280 across 11 hospitalsCT$280Rhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $242 across 40 hospitalsCA$242Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $198 across 23 hospitalsCO$198Nebraska: median $225 across 35 hospitalsNE$225Missouri: median $149 across 30 hospitalsMO$149Kentucky: median $119 across 28 hospitalsKY$119West Virginia: median $148 across 21 hospitalsWV$148Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $161 across 52 hospitalsKS$161Arkansas: median $117 across 10 hospitalsAR$117Tennessee: median $95 across 19 hospitalsTN$95North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $202 across 32 hospitalsOK$202Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $135 across 11 hospitalsMS$135Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $153 across 23 hospitalsGA$153Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $191 across 18 hospitalsTX$191Florida: median $163 across 19 hospitalsFL$163
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $202. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK15$391+94%$305 – $562
Wisconsin WI43$296+47%$250 – $389
Connecticut CT11$280+39%$245 – $280
North Dakota ND20$263+30%$186 – $305
Minnesota MN61$255+27%$182 – $356
South Dakota SD32$255+27%$158 – $327
Massachusetts MA13$247+22%$147 – $333
California CA40$242+20%$85 – $413
Idaho ID11$233+16%$174 – $245
Washington WA37$228+13%$182 – $328
Oregon OR36$226+12%$208 – $329
Nebraska NE35$225+11%$147 – $246
Illinois IL61$221+9%$92 – $347
Wyoming WY12$214+6%$162 – $350
Ohio OH26$213+6%$146 – $421
Iowa IA77$210+4%$166 – $249
New York NY45$206+2%$103 – $298
Oklahoma OK32$2020%$108 – $212
Colorado CO23$198−2%$152 – $280
Montana MT27$197−2%$151 – $301
Texas TX18$191−5%$114 – $301
Maine ME23$181−10%$78 – $281
Vermont VT12$181−10%$158 – $334
Michigan MI47$177−12%$57 – $203
Florida FL19$163−19%$129 – $414
Kansas KS52$161−20%$124 – $218
Georgia GA23$153−24%$96 – $259
Missouri MO30$149−26%$99 – $177
West Virginia WV21$148−27%$120 – $202
New Hampshire NH15$142−30%$109 – $205
Mississippi MS11$135−33%$91 – $194
Kentucky KY28$119−41%$107 – $200
Arkansas AR10$117−42%$64 – $203
Indiana IN37$103−49%$79 – $230
Tennessee TN19$95−53%$57 – $130
Pennsylvania PA31$86−57%$70 – $245
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $202.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care531$190$103 – $271
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access587$207$140 – $296
Ownership
For-profit56$130$92 – $216
Government316$198$128 – $285
Non-profit763$206$124 – $295
System affiliation
Part of a system791$204$119 – $284
Independent346$195$126 – $296

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$277
Median cash price$202
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

688 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $210 and the average of the middle 60% is $207; most fall between $125 and $295.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 688 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
$95$137$210$280$356

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($95 vs $356).

Of the 741 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 688 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 51 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,137 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,215 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,137
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 — excluded63
Hospitals that filed this code1,215

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 Discharge Day Mgmt > 30 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 discharge day, more than 30 minutes (CPT 99239) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99239-hospital-discharge-day-more-than-30-minutes