Doctor visits and therapy CPT 92557 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Hearing test cost in Lebanon, NH — inpatient

In Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT, 2 hospitals list a cash price for comprehensive hearing test: tone and speech audiometry, both ears as an inpatient: from $77.00 to $144.74, with a median of $110.87. The lowest listed price is at Valley Regional Hospital — $33.87 less than the median here. Across New Hampshire, the median is $127.14 at 3 hospitals.

Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 92557, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Jun 6, 2026 and Jun 6, 2026.

Lowest$77.00Valley Regional Hospital
Median$110.87half pay less
Highest$144.74in this market
Difference1.9×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 Lebanon-Claremont, NH-VT.

median
Lowest $73.15Highest $162.25
one sideboth sides

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Valley Regional Hospital lowest Claremont, NH · (603) 542-7771 VA C&P AUDIOLOGY EXAM $77.00 $140.00 $25.78–$568.00 45% Jun 6, 2026
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Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Lebanon, NH · (603) 650-5000 COMPREHENSIVE AUDIOMETRY THRESHOLD EVAL SPEECH RECOGNITION $144.74 $473.00 $163.18–$449.35 69% —
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Valley Regional Hospital Claremont, NH · (603) 542-7771 COMPREHENSIVE HEARING TEST $162.25 $295.00 $25.78–$568.00 45% Jun 6, 2026
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Valley Regional Hospital both sides Claremont, NH · (603) 542-7771 VA COMPLETE AUDIOMETRY BILAT PROC $73.15 $133.00 $25.78–$568.00 45% Jun 6, 2026
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Valley Regional Hospital both sides Claremont, NH · (603) 542-7771 COMPLETE AUDIOMETRY BILATERAL PROC $162.25 $295.00 $25.78–$568.00 45% Jun 6, 2026
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Inpatient: lowest $77.00, median $110.87, highest $144.74 — a 1.9× difference within the same market.

Both sides : lowest $73.15, median $73.15, highest $73.15.

The two groups are not comparable and are not averaged together: a price for both sides of the body covers twice the work. Merging them is how a single published "median" ends up far above what one side actually costs.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $110.87 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At 2 of 2 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

This is a full hearing test done in a sound booth, usually by an audiologist. It measures the softest tones you can hear through headphones and a bone vibrator, and how well you hear and repeat speech.

What the price covers

The price covers the hearing test for both ears. Tympanometry (a middle-ear test), hearing aid evaluation and fitting, and a doctor's visit are billed separately.