Breathing treatment cost in Bluefield, WV
In Bluefield, WV-VA, 1 hospital lists a cash price for breathing treatment (nebulizer or inhaler) for airway obstruction: from $252.35 to $252.35, with a median of $252.35. Across West Virginia, the median is $126.35 at 6 hospitals.
Cash prices at 1 facility for code 94640, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 27, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Bluefield, WV-VA.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB MDI TREATMENT SUBSEQUENT | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB AEROSOL INITIAL SPUTUM INDUCT | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB PAP TREATMENT SUBSEQUENT | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB AEROSOL SUB SM VOL NEB | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB AEROSOL INITIAL SM VOL NEB BAN | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB PAP TREATMENT INITIAL | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB MDI TREATMENT INITIAL | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
| Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital lowest Tazewell, VA HB AEROSOL SUB SPUTUM INDUCT | $252.35 | $721.00 | $6.48–$1,155.98 | 65% | — source file |
Outpatient: lowest $252.35, median $252.35, highest $252.35.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $112.50. 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 the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated. 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
A breathing treatment delivers medicine such as albuterol through a nebulizer or inhaler to open the airways during an asthma or COPD flare.
What the price covers
The price is for one treatment. Repeated treatments in one visit can each be billed, and the medicine may be billed separately.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 94640 ($173.80). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.
| Princeton Community Hospital Assn Princeton, WVAIRWAY INHALATION TREATMENT | $9.00 | file |