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Phone visit with a provider, 11 to 20 minutes

CPT 99442the billing code this page is about

A telephone consultation with a physician or other qualified provider for a patient not seen in person for the same problem recently; covers 11 to 20 minutes of discussion.

Hospitals typically charge $82 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 446 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $84. Most fall between $42 and $144 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
446
States
47
Filings dated
Dec 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 446 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
$33$48$82$125$189

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $189).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $30: 14 hospitals$24$30 – $38: 37 hospitals$38 – $48: 40 hospitals$38$48 – $60: 34 hospitals$60 – $76: 48 hospitals$60$76 – $95: 85 hospitals$95 – $119: 46 hospitals$95$119 – $150: 36 hospitals$150 – $188: 31 hospitals$150$188 – $236: 31 hospitals$188median $82price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (402 of 446 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$3014
$30$3837
$38$4840
$48$6034
$60$7648
$76$9585
$95$11946
$119$15036
$150$18831
$188$23631

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $82.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $96 across 11 hospitalsWA$96Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $105 across 18 hospitalsMN$105Illinois: median $113 across 25 hospitalsIL$113Wisconsin: median $87 across 18 hospitalsWI$87Michigan: median $56 across 25 hospitalsMI$56New York: median $110 across 41 hospitalsNY$110Massachusetts: median $125 across 11 hospitalsMA$125Oregon: median $175 across 28 hospitalsOR$175Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $62 across 14 hospitalsIA$62Indiana: median $54 across 16 hospitalsIN$54Ohio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $34 across 14 hospitalsPA$34New Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: median $85 across 11 hospitalsCT$85Rhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $94 across 12 hospitalsCA$94Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $102 across 13 hospitalsNE$102Missouri: median $60 across 11 hospitalsMO$60Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $77 across 13 hospitalsKS$77Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $90 across 17 hospitalsOK$90Louisiana: median $28 across 11 hospitalsLA$28Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $175 across 14 hospitalsGA$175Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $52 across 13 hospitalsTX$52Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $82. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA14$175+114%$68 – $355
Oregon OR28$175+114%$127 – $210
Massachusetts MA11$125+53%$106 – $259
Illinois IL25$113+38%$62 – $154
New York NY41$110+35%$45 – $187
Minnesota MN18$105+29%$49 – $218
Nebraska NE13$102+25%$46 – $164
Washington WA11$96+18%$68 – $131
California CA12$94+15%$49 – $144
Oklahoma OK17$90+10%$74 – $90
Wisconsin WI18$87+7%$84 – $87
Connecticut CT11$85+4%$34 – $165
Kansas KS13$77−6%$39 – $99
Iowa IA14$62−25%$26 – $118
Missouri MO11$60−26%$26 – $133
Michigan MI25$56−31%$34 – $87
Indiana IN16$54−34%$16 – $82
Texas TX13$52−36%$37 – $94
Pennsylvania PA14$34−58%$31 – $42
Louisiana LA11$28−66%$8 – $49
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $82.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care238$87$41 – $156
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access195$79$43 – $119
Ownership
For-profit25$79$27 – $90
Government117$82$46 – $127
Non-profit303$85$41 – $152
System affiliation
Part of a system305$81$39 – $152
Independent141$84$47 – $125

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$129
Median cash price$82
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

281 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $87 and the average of the middle 60% is $92; most fall between $49 and $153.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 281 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
$35$60$87$133$208

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $208).

Of the 297 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 281 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 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

446 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 492 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted446
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code492

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 July 20, 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as All Outpatient.

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, “Phone visit with a provider, 11 to 20 minutes (CPT 99442) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99442-phone-visit-with-a-provider-11-to-20-minutes