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Group breathing therapy session

HCPCS G0239the billing code this page is about

Therapy to improve breathing or strengthen the breathing muscles given to two or more patients together in one group session.

Hospitals typically charge $119 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 315 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $118. Most fall between $55 and $173 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
315
States
40
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 315 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
$44$65$119$160$227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $227).

How the prices are spread

$33 – $41: 13 hospitals$33$41 – $51: 13 hospitals$51 – $63: 36 hospitals$51$63 – $78: 22 hospitals$78 – $97: 23 hospitals$78$97 – $121: 38 hospitals$121 – $150: 65 hospitals$121$150 – $187: 47 hospitals$187 – $232: 12 hospitals$187$232 – $289: 16 hospitals$232median $119price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (285 of 315 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$33$4113
$41$5113
$51$6336
$63$7822
$78$9723
$97$12138
$121$15065
$150$18747
$187$23212
$232$28916

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$119
Cash as a multiple of Medicare3.1×

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 $119.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 3 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: 4 hospitals 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 $129 across 12 hospitalsMN$129Illinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $61 across 15 hospitalsMI$61New York: median $51 across 23 hospitalsNY$51Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $148 across 12 hospitalsOR$148Nevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $148 across 26 hospitalsIN$148Ohio: median $142 across 23 hospitalsOH$142Pennsylvania: median $129 across 15 hospitalsPA$129New Jersey: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 7 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 $110 across 24 hospitalsUT$110Colorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $104 across 13 hospitalsVA$104Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $62 across 14 hospitalsTN$62North Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $156 across 31 hospitalsTX$156Florida: median $123 across 17 hospitalsFL$123
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $119. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX31$156+31%$139 – $173
Oregon OR12$148+25%$133 – $289
Indiana IN26$148+25%$130 – $195
Ohio OH23$142+19%$89 – $275
Pennsylvania PA15$129+8%$55 – $140
Minnesota MN12$129+8%$109 – $129
Florida FL17$123+3%$53 – $123
Utah UT24$110−8%$110 – $137
Virginia VA13$104−12%$97 – $331
Tennessee TN14$62−48%$62 – $112
Michigan MI15$61−49%$14 – $71
New York NY23$51−57%$51 – $119
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not 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
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $119.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care262$117$54 – $173
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access50$129$71 – $162
Ownership
For-profit36$104$62 – $173
Government31$71$53 – $129
Non-profit246$128$61 – $173
System affiliation
Part of a system283$123$56 – $173
Independent32$90$55 – $158

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$194
Median cash price$119
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

247 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $123 and the average of the middle 60% is $120; most fall between $70 and $172.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 247 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
$50$76$123$156$214

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($50 vs $214).

Of the 257 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 247 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

315 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 331 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted315
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code331

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 group.

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, “Group breathing therapy session (CPT G0239) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-g0239-group-breathing-therapy-session