HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Emergency room visit, level 3 of 5

CPT 99283the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $537 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,484 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $582. Most fall between $226 and $1,179 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,484
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 3,484 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
$138$267$537$987$1,666

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($138 vs $1,666).

How the prices are spread

$96 – $134: 159 hospitals$96$134 – $186: 210 hospitals$186 – $259: 281 hospitals$186$259 – $360: 397 hospitals$360 – $501: 425 hospitals$360$501 – $696: 456 hospitals$696 – $969: 497 hospitals$696$969 – $1,348: 363 hospitals$1,348 – $1,876: 231 hospitals$1,348$1,876 – $2,610: 117 hospitals$1,876median $537price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,136 of 3,484 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$96$134159
$134$186210
$186$259281
$259$360397
$360$501425
$501$696456
$696$969497
$969$1,348363
$1,348$1,876231
$1,876$2,610117

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$279
Median cash price$537
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.93×

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 $537.

Alaska: median $556 across 19 hospitalsAK$556Maine: median $328 across 28 hospitalsME$328Vermont: median $328 across 14 hospitalsVT$328New Hampshire: median $435 across 25 hospitalsNH$435Washington: median $549 across 76 hospitalsWA$549Idaho: median $773 across 24 hospitalsID$773Montana: median $253 across 35 hospitalsMT$253North Dakota: median $370 across 32 hospitalsND$370Minnesota: median $385 across 111 hospitalsMN$385Illinois: median $598 across 132 hospitalsIL$598Wisconsin: median $408 across 106 hospitalsWI$408Michigan: median $528 across 102 hospitalsMI$528New York: median $454 across 119 hospitalsNY$454Massachusetts: median $734 across 50 hospitalsMA$734Oregon: median $338 across 55 hospitalsOR$338Nevada: median $615 across 24 hospitalsNV$615Wyoming: median $458 across 16 hospitalsWY$458South Dakota: median $317 across 45 hospitalsSD$317Iowa: median $203 across 91 hospitalsIA$203Indiana: median $538 across 98 hospitalsIN$538Ohio: median $818 across 133 hospitalsOH$818Pennsylvania: median $510 across 126 hospitalsPA$510New Jersey: median $381 across 53 hospitalsNJ$381Connecticut: median $801 across 23 hospitalsCT$801Rhode Island: median $517 across 10 hospitalsRI$517California: median $1,252 across 217 hospitalsCA$1,252Utah: median $1,245 across 43 hospitalsUT$1,245Colorado: median $802 across 70 hospitalsCO$802Nebraska: median $483 across 79 hospitalsNE$483Missouri: median $638 across 80 hospitalsMO$638Kentucky: median $454 across 69 hospitalsKY$454West Virginia: median $461 across 43 hospitalsWV$461Virginia: median $570 across 73 hospitalsVA$570Maryland: median $276 across 40 hospitalsMD$276Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $917 across 55 hospitalsAZ$917New Mexico: median $266 across 31 hospitalsNM$266Kansas: median $276 across 93 hospitalsKS$276Arkansas: median $300 across 39 hospitalsAR$300Tennessee: median $341 across 84 hospitalsTN$341North Carolina: median $727 across 92 hospitalsNC$727South Carolina: median $778 across 52 hospitalsSC$778Oklahoma: median $338 across 72 hospitalsOK$338Louisiana: median $326 across 47 hospitalsLA$326Mississippi: median $164 across 56 hospitalsMS$164Alabama: median $343 across 45 hospitalsAL$343Georgia: median $573 across 109 hospitalsGA$573Hawaii: median $1,170 across 17 hospitalsHI$1,170Texas: median $770 across 251 hospitalsTX$770Florida: median $1,553 across 173 hospitalsFL$1,553
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $537. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL173$1,553+189%$750 – $3,769
California CA217$1,252+133%$602 – $2,188
Utah UT43$1,245+132%$665 – $1,839
Hawaii HI17$1,170+118%$1,058 – $1,509
Arizona AZ55$917+71%$441 – $2,304
Ohio OH133$818+52%$430 – $1,235
Colorado CO70$802+49%$317 – $1,558
Connecticut CT23$801+49%$260 – $1,218
South Carolina SC52$778+45%$459 – $1,011
Idaho ID24$773+44%$158 – $1,204
Texas TX251$770+43%$208 – $1,293
Massachusetts MA50$734+37%$359 – $1,193
North Carolina NC92$727+35%$432 – $1,249
Missouri MO80$638+19%$248 – $1,207
Nevada NV24$615+15%$272 – $1,343
Illinois IL132$598+11%$329 – $1,002
Georgia GA109$573+7%$169 – $1,336
Virginia VA73$570+6%$454 – $1,387
Alaska AK19$556+4%$341 – $929
Washington WA76$549+2%$201 – $915
Indiana IN98$5380%$178 – $1,047
Michigan MI102$528−2%$163 – $774
Rhode Island RI10$517−4%$274 – $947
Pennsylvania PA126$510−5%$243 – $996
Nebraska NE79$483−10%$172 – $651
West Virginia WV43$461−14%$207 – $581
Wyoming WY16$458−15%$173 – $839
New York NY119$454−15%$186 – $1,935
Kentucky KY69$454−15%$278 – $1,112
New Hampshire NH25$435−19%$128 – $732
Wisconsin WI106$408−24%$252 – $672
Minnesota MN111$385−28%$211 – $552
New Jersey NJ53$381−29%$316 – $1,112
North Dakota ND32$370−31%$174 – $566
Alabama AL45$343−36%$180 – $616
Tennessee TN84$341−36%$205 – $735
Oklahoma OK72$338−37%$174 – $630
Oregon OR55$338−37%$162 – $910
Maine ME28$328−39%$247 – $518
Vermont VT14$328−39%$110 – $758
Louisiana LA47$326−39%$188 – $556
South Dakota SD45$317−41%$142 – $656
Arkansas AR39$300−44%$158 – $786
Maryland MD40$276−49%$241 – $328
Kansas KS93$276−49%$149 – $522
New Mexico NM31$266−50%$254 – $656
Montana MT35$253−53%$119 – $496
Iowa IA91$203−62%$88 – $442
Mississippi MS56$164−70%$103 – $359
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 $537.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,416$656$276 – $1,347
Children’s52$875$295 – $1,500
Critical access1,007$340$159 – $655
Ownership
For-profit487$885$331 – $2,730
Government661$392$165 – $781
Non-profit2,327$544$235 – $1,107
System affiliation
Part of a system2,826$577$249 – $1,235
Independent658$367$162 – $806

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,035
Median cash price$537
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

2,642 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $604 and the average of the middle 60% is $629; most fall between $264 and $1,134.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,642 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
$160$325$604$989$1,519

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($160 vs $1,519).

Of the 2,773 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,642 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

3,484 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 3,658 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,484
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
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 — excluded119
Hospitals that filed this code3,658

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 Low 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.

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

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Emergency room visit, level 3 of 5 (CPT 99283) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99283-emergency-room-visit-level-3-of-5