Breathing treatment cost in Florence, AL
In Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL, 1 hospital lists a cash price for breathing treatment (nebulizer or inhaler) for airway obstruction: from $50.00 to $50.00, with a median of $50.00. Across Alabama, the median is $109.53 at 35 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 Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Keller Hospital lowest Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 RT-MDI INITIAL EVAL/ DEMO | $50.00 | $50.00 | $22.50–$192.50 | — | — source file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 LAB-PROTEIN,TOTAL,OTHER SOURCE | $174.00 | $174.00 | $3.00–$174.00 | — | — source file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 AIRWAY INHALATION TREATMENT | $300.50 | $300.50 | $105.60–$300.50 | — | — source file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 RT-INHALED MED-ACUTE/SPUTUM/DI | $321.00 | $321.00 | $130.20–$321.00 | — | — source file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 ST-SPEECH THERAPY (UTC 60) | $358.00 | $358.00 | $15.00–$279.24 | — | — source file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 STENT, NON-COA/NON-COV W/DEL | $3,500.00 | $3,500.00 | $105.60–$2,730.00 | — | — source file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 OR-MODL ANTM IPS CRANI CLS NS | $22,913.50 | $22,913.50 | $105.60–$17,872.53 | — | — source file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, AL · (256) 386-4556 EPS-ST JUDE ACCENT MRI SR RF | $31,131.50 | $31,131.50 | $105.60–$24,282.57 | — | — source file |
Outpatient: lowest $50.00, median $50.00, highest $50.00.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $50.00. 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 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.
2 rows held back from this comparison
They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 94640 ($173.50). 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.
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, ALGADOVIST MRI CONTRAST | $1.00 | file |
| Helen Keller Hospital Sheffield, ALVANCOMYCIN PER 10 MG [MYLAN] | $1.16 | file |