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Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Emergency room visit, level 2 of 5

CPT 99282the billing code this page is about

An emergency department visit involving a problem of low complexity, the second of five billing levels based on how much evaluation and decision-making the visit required.

Hospitals typically charge $323 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,477 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $346. Most fall between $148 and $663 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,477
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 3,477 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$171$323$562$989

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($92 vs $989).

How the prices are spread

$62 – $85: 144 hospitals$62$85 – $117: 194 hospitals$117 – $161: 291 hospitals$117$161 – $222: 378 hospitals$222 – $307: 467 hospitals$222$307 – $423: 489 hospitals$423 – $583: 530 hospitals$423$583 – $804: 308 hospitals$804 – $1,108: 214 hospitals$804$1,108 – $1,527: 127 hospitals$1,108median $323price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,142 of 3,477 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$62$85144
$85$117194
$117$161291
$161$222378
$222$307467
$307$423489
$423$583530
$583$804308
$804$1,108214
$1,108$1,527127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$157
Median cash price$323
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $323.

Alaska: median $379 across 19 hospitalsAK$379Maine: median $177 across 28 hospitalsME$177Vermont: median $225 across 14 hospitalsVT$225New Hampshire: median $224 across 24 hospitalsNH$224Washington: median $337 across 76 hospitalsWA$337Idaho: median $424 across 24 hospitalsID$424Montana: median $154 across 35 hospitalsMT$154North Dakota: median $230 across 32 hospitalsND$230Minnesota: median $240 across 112 hospitalsMN$240Illinois: median $381 across 133 hospitalsIL$381Wisconsin: median $270 across 107 hospitalsWI$270Michigan: median $316 across 100 hospitalsMI$316New York: median $337 across 119 hospitalsNY$337Massachusetts: median $498 across 44 hospitalsMA$498Oregon: median $221 across 55 hospitalsOR$221Nevada: median $349 across 24 hospitalsNV$349Wyoming: median $311 across 16 hospitalsWY$311South Dakota: median $347 across 44 hospitalsSD$347Iowa: median $128 across 94 hospitalsIA$128Indiana: median $281 across 98 hospitalsIN$281Ohio: median $502 across 133 hospitalsOH$502Pennsylvania: median $324 across 125 hospitalsPA$324New Jersey: median $218 across 53 hospitalsNJ$218Connecticut: median $379 across 23 hospitalsCT$379Rhode Island: median $414 across 10 hospitalsRI$414California: median $747 across 215 hospitalsCA$747Utah: median $830 across 43 hospitalsUT$830Colorado: median $427 across 71 hospitalsCO$427Nebraska: median $305 across 79 hospitalsNE$305Missouri: median $424 across 80 hospitalsMO$424Kentucky: median $282 across 69 hospitalsKY$282West Virginia: median $264 across 43 hospitalsWV$264Virginia: median $376 across 73 hospitalsVA$376Maryland: median $137 across 40 hospitalsMD$137Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $563 across 55 hospitalsAZ$563New Mexico: median $185 across 31 hospitalsNM$185Kansas: median $180 across 93 hospitalsKS$180Arkansas: median $170 across 39 hospitalsAR$170Tennessee: median $206 across 84 hospitalsTN$206North Carolina: median $329 across 92 hospitalsNC$329South Carolina: median $514 across 52 hospitalsSC$514Oklahoma: median $179 across 72 hospitalsOK$179Louisiana: median $215 across 47 hospitalsLA$215Mississippi: median $114 across 56 hospitalsMS$114Alabama: median $200 across 43 hospitalsAL$200Georgia: median $341 across 109 hospitalsGA$341Hawaii: median $675 across 17 hospitalsHI$675Texas: median $463 across 252 hospitalsTX$463Florida: median $909 across 173 hospitalsFL$909
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $323. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$909+181%$408 – $2,547
Utah UT43$830+157%$351 – $1,224
California CA215$747+131%$328 – $1,280
Hawaii HI17$675+109%$515 – $816
Arizona AZ55$563+74%$252 – $1,440
South Carolina SC52$514+59%$278 – $567
Ohio OH133$502+55%$247 – $710
Massachusetts MA44$498+54%$293 – $721
Texas TX252$463+43%$204 – $799
Colorado CO71$427+32%$223 – $697
Idaho ID24$424+31%$97 – $688
Missouri MO80$424+31%$144 – $631
Rhode Island RI10$414+28%$171 – $749
Illinois IL133$381+18%$220 – $598
Alaska AK19$379+17%$194 – $529
Connecticut CT23$379+17%$155 – $715
Virginia VA73$376+16%$265 – $826
Nevada NV24$349+8%$167 – $600
South Dakota SD44$347+7%$176 – $504
Georgia GA109$341+6%$134 – $750
Washington WA76$337+4%$131 – $540
New York NY119$337+4%$140 – $1,605
North Carolina NC92$329+2%$237 – $518
Pennsylvania PA125$3240%$154 – $584
Michigan MI100$316−2%$92 – $480
Wyoming WY16$311−4%$114 – $437
Nebraska NE79$305−6%$101 – $391
Kentucky KY69$282−13%$143 – $662
Indiana IN98$281−13%$122 – $525
Wisconsin WI107$270−16%$171 – $372
West Virginia WV43$264−18%$142 – $388
Minnesota MN112$240−26%$148 – $346
North Dakota ND32$230−29%$111 – $341
Vermont VT14$225−30%$62 – $461
New Hampshire NH24$224−31%$88 – $788
Oregon OR55$221−32%$96 – $472
New Jersey NJ53$218−32%$178 – $748
Louisiana LA47$215−33%$135 – $339
Tennessee TN84$206−36%$94 – $573
Alabama AL43$200−38%$114 – $323
New Mexico NM31$185−43%$117 – $402
Kansas KS93$180−44%$89 – $361
Oklahoma OK72$179−45%$107 – $393
Maine ME28$177−45%$138 – $309
Arkansas AR39$170−47%$98 – $657
Montana MT35$154−52%$68 – $299
Maryland MD40$137−58%$121 – $181
Iowa IA94$128−60%$50 – $307
Mississippi MS56$114−65%$69 – $223
Delaware DE7not 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 $323.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,404$387$175 – $759
Children’s52$512$201 – $802
Critical access1,012$221$101 – $403
Ownership
For-profit485$518$199 – $1,519
Government663$241$106 – $438
Non-profit2,320$326$151 – $636
System affiliation
Part of a system2,816$341$159 – $710
Independent661$238$104 – $470

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$608
Median cash price$323
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,620 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $364 and the average of the middle 60% is $376; most fall between $174 and $642.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,620 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
$104$208$364$563$872

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($104 vs $872).

Of the 2,751 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,620 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 105 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,477 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (88%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,649 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,477
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,649

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 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 Emergency Department Visit Straightforward Mdm.

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, “Emergency room visit, level 2 of 5 (CPT 99282) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99282-emergency-room-visit-level-2-of-5