Hearing test cost in Philadelphia, PA
In Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, 14 hospitals list a cash price for comprehensive hearing test: tone and speech audiometry, both ears: from $126.00 to $969.97, with a median of $527.28. The lowest listed price is at Lower Bucks Hospital — $401.28 less than the median here. Across Pennsylvania, the median is $360.00 at 33 hospitals.
- The median here, $527.28, is 133% above the US median of $225.90.
- That is 4.0× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($131.46).
- 7 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 Oct 25, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Dec 31, 2025 and Sep 1, 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Bucks Hospital lowest Bristol, PA · (215) 785-9200 Hc Comprehensive Hearing Test File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $126.00 | $648.75 | $29.00–$519.00 | 81% |
| Roxborough Memorial Hospital Philadelphia, PA · (215) 483-9900 Hc Comprehensive Hearing Test File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $131.00 | $648.75 | $29.00–$629.29 | 80% |
| Lankenau Medical Center Wynnewood, PA · (610) 645-2000 Hc Comprhensive Hearing Test File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $360.00 | $900.00 | — | 60% |
| Paoli Hospital Paoli, PA · (610) 648-1000 Hc Comprhensive Hearing Test File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $360.00 | $900.00 | — | 60% |
| The Bryn Mawr Hospital Bryn Mawr, PA · (610) 526-3000 Hc Comprhensive Hearing Test File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $360.00 | $900.00 | — | 60% |
| Riddle Memorial Hospital Media, PA · (610) 566-9400 Hc Comprhensive Hearing Test File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $360.00 | $900.00 | — | 60% |
| Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital Darby, PA · (215) 237-4000 HC Audiometry Speech Threshold With Speech Recognition Comprehensive File of Mar 31, 2026 · source file | $396.50 | $610.00 | $39.15–$610.00 | 35% |
| Inspira Medical Center Mannington Salem, NJ COMPREHENSIVE AUDIO. EVAL File of Mar 24, 2026 · source file | $658.06 | $658.06 | $110.88–$747.00 | — |
| Inspira Health Center Woodbury Woodbury, NJ COMPREHENSIVE AUDIO. EVAL File of Mar 24, 2026 · source file | $658.06 | $658.06 | $113.29–$747.00 | — |
| Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill Mullica Hill, NJ · (856) 363-1000 COMPREHENSIVE AUDIO. EVAL File of Mar 24, 2026 · source file | $658.06 | $658.06 | $119.75–$747.00 | — |
| Inspira Medical Center Elmer Elmer, NJ · (856) 363-1000 COMPREHENSIVE AUDIO. EVAL File of Mar 24, 2026 · source file | $658.06 | $658.06 | $119.75–$747.00 | — |
| Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Wilmington, DE · (302) 651-4000 Audiometry Comprehensive W/Speech Recognition+1 more line at this price File of Mar 10, 2026 · source file | $749.00 | $749.00 | — | — |
| Shriners Childrens - Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA · (215) 430-4000 COMPREHENSIVE HEARING TEST File of Mar 19, 2026 · source file | $784.71 | $784.71 | $12.00–$185.07 | — |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA · (215) 590-1000 Comprehensive Audiometry Eval File of Dec 31, 2025 · source file | $969.97 | $969.97 | $39.15–$872.97 | — |
Outpatient: lowest $126.00, median $527.28, highest $969.97 — a 7.7× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 10 facilities here, median $527.28. 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 7 of 9 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it 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.