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One-on-one breathing therapy session, per 15 minutes

HCPCS G0238the billing code this page is about

Hands-on therapy to improve breathing function delivered individually by a therapist; one unit covers 15 minutes of treatment time.

Hospitals typically charge $78 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 272 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $82. Most fall between $48 and $125 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
272
States
39
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 272 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
$41$49$78$120$146

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $146).

How the prices are spread

$32 – $40: 9 hospitals$32$40 – $51: 48 hospitals$51 – $65: 39 hospitals$51$65 – $83: 44 hospitals$83 – $106: 22 hospitals$83$106 – $135: 61 hospitals$135 – $172: 17 hospitals$135$172 – $219: 3 hospitals$219 – $279: 1 hospitals$219$279 – $356: 2 hospitals$279median $78price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (246 of 272 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$32$409
$40$5148
$51$6539
$65$8344
$83$10622
$106$13561
$135$17217
$172$2193
$219$2791
$279$3562

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$78
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $78.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $109 across 12 hospitalsMN$109Illinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $41 across 21 hospitalsNY$41Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $145 across 11 hospitalsOR$145Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $89 across 20 hospitalsIN$89Ohio: median $109 across 23 hospitalsOH$109Pennsylvania: median $117 across 14 hospitalsPA$117New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $60 across 11 hospitalsUT$60Colorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $60 across 12 hospitalsVA$60Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $49 across 13 hospitalsTN$49North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $120 across 31 hospitalsTX$120Florida: median $82 across 17 hospitalsFL$82
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $78. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Oregon OR11$145+86%$75 – $153
Texas TX31$120+54%$117 – $135
Pennsylvania PA14$117+50%$82 – $616
Minnesota MN12$109+40%$79 – $109
Ohio OH23$109+40%$48 – $128
Indiana IN20$89+14%$67 – $113
Florida FL17$82+5%$49 – $82
Utah UT11$60−23%$60 – $60
Virginia VA12$60−23%$32 – $95
Tennessee TN13$49−38%$36 – $67
New York NY21$41−48%$41 – $59
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $78.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care230$75$45 – $120
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access38$109$67 – $146
Ownership
For-profit37$82$49 – $120
Government26$49$44 – $75
Non-profit207$82$51 – $128
System affiliation
Part of a system247$78$48 – $125
Independent25$74$44 – $107

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$144
Median cash price$78
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

202 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $77 and the average of the middle 60% is $81; most fall between $49 and $120.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 202 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
$42$51$77$120$145

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $145).

Of the 217 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 202 gave a usable cash price; 5 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

272 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 293 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted272
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here7
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code293

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 September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Oth resp proc indiv.

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, “One-on-one breathing therapy session, per 15 minutes (CPT G0238) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0238-one-on-one-breathing-therapy-session-per-15-minutes