Hearing test cost in Los Angeles, CA
In Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, 14 hospitals list a cash price for comprehensive hearing test: tone and speech audiometry, both ears: from $154.08 to $1,105.00, with a median of $278.14. The lowest listed price is at Mission Hospital Regional Med Center — $124.06 less than the median here. Across California, the median is $548.80 at 66 hospitals.
- The median here, $278.14, is 23% above the US median of $225.90.
- That is 2.1× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($131.46).
- Los Angeles, CA has the lowest median of 2 metro areas in California with at least 10 hospitals pricing this code.
- 6 of 14 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.
Cash prices at 14 facilities across 12 cities for code 92557, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Nov 4, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Feb 4, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Hospital Regional Med Center lowest Mission Viejo, CA · (949) 364-1400 HC COMPRE AUDIOMETRY THRESHOLD EVAL SP RECOGNIJ File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $154.08 | $321.00 | — | 52% |
| La Palma Intercommunity Hospital La Palma, CA · (714) 670-7400 Hc Comprehensive Hearing Test File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $164.00 | $589.75 | $42.90–$589.75 | 72% |
| Centinela Hospital Medical Center Inglewood, CA · (310) 673-4660 AUDIOMETRY,BASIC COMPRE File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $164.00 | $419.90 | $40.86–$419.90 | 61% |
| West Anaheim Medical Center Anaheim, CA · (714) 827-3000 Hc Comprehensive Hearing Test File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $164.00 | $589.75 | $164.68–$589.75 | 72% |
| Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center Garden Grove, CA · (714) 537-5160 Hc Comprehensive Hearing Test File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $164.00 | $589.75 | $164.68–$589.75 | 72% |
| Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks, CA · (818) 981-7111 AUDIOLOGY EVALUATION File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $164.00 | $445.00 | $42.90–$445.00 | 63% |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange Orange, CA · (714) 633-9111 HC COMPRE AUDIOMETRY THRESHOLD EVAL SP RECOGNIJ File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $245.28 | $511.00 | — | 52% |
| Chapman Global Medical Center Orange, CA · (714) 633-0011 COMPREHENSIVE AUDIOMETRY EVAL File of May 6, 2026 · source file | $311.00 | $311.00 | $49.03–$311.00 | — |
| Orange County Global Medical Center Santa Ana, CA · (714) 953-3500 COMPREHENSIVE AUDIOMETRY EVAL File of Jun 15, 2026 · source file | $311.00 | $311.00 | $49.03–$311.00 | — |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center Burbank, CA · (818) 843-5111 HC COMPRE AUDIOMETRY THRESHOLD EVAL SP RECOGNIJ File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $344.05 | $983.00 | — | 65% |
| Memorial Hospital of Gardena Gardena, CA · (310) 532-4200 COMPREHENSIVE HEARING TEST File of Feb 4, 2026 · source file | $385.35 | $385.35 | $180.73–$390.33 | — |
| Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare Pomona, CA · (909) 596-7733 Comprehensive hearing and speech recognition test File of Oct 5, 2026 · source file | $567.18 | $436.29 | $61.90–$523.55 | -30% |
| Keck Hospital of USC Los Angeles, CA · (323) 442-8656 Comprehensive Hearing Test File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $864.50 | $864.50 | — | — |
| Childrens Hospital at Mission - Cerner Mission Viejo, CA · (949) 365-2408 AUD COMPREHENSIVE HEARING TEST File of Mar 18, 2026 · source file | $1,105.00 | $1,105.00 | $40.86–$1,105.00 | — |
Outpatient: lowest $154.08, median $278.14, highest $1,105.00 — a 7.2× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 9 facilities here, median $311.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 6 of 10 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 2 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 hearing test is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Hearing test explained.