Doctor visits and therapy CPT 92523 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Speech evaluation cost in San Jose, CA — inpatient

In San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, 4 hospitals list a cash price for speech and language evaluation as an inpatient: from $191.25 to $872.80, with a median of $666.40. The lowest listed price is at El Camino Hospital — $475.15 less than the median here. Across California, the median is $457.08 at 87 hospitals.

Cash prices at 4 facilities across 4 cities for code 92523, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$191.25El Camino Hospital
Median$666.40half pay less
Highest$872.80in this market
Difference4.6×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA.

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Lowest $191.25Highest $872.80

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
El Camino Hospital lowest Mountain View, CA · (650) 940-7000 HC SPEECH SOUND LANG COMPREHENSION $191.25 $765.00 — 75% Apr 1, 2026
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Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Jose San Jose, CA · (408) 972-7000 EVAL SPEECH SOUND PRODUCT LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION $666.40 $1,190.00 — 44% —
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Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA · (408) 236-6400 EVAL SPEECH SOUND PRODUCT LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION $666.40 $1,190.00 — 44% —
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Stanford Health Care Stanford, CA · (650) 723-4000 Sp Eval Snd Prd W/Lang Eval $872.80 $2,182.00 — 60% Apr 1, 2026
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Inpatient: lowest $191.25, median $666.40, highest $872.80 — a 4.6× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $666.40 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

What it is

A speech and language evaluation assesses speech and understanding.

What the price covers

The price is for one session or evaluation.