Doctor visits and therapy CPT 94640 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Breathing treatment cost in Plainview, TX — inpatient

In Plainview, TX, 1 hospital lists a cash price for breathing treatment (nebulizer or inhaler) for airway obstruction as an inpatient: from $274.26 to $274.26, with a median of $274.26. Across Texas, the median is $203.49 at 98 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 94640, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$274.26Methodist Hospital Plainview
Median$274.26half pay less
Highest$274.26in this market
Difference1.0×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 Plainview, TX.

median
Lowest $274.26Highest $274.26

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
Methodist Hospital Plainview lowest Plainview, TX · (806) 296-5531 HC INHALATION TREATMENT DAILY $274.26 $653.00 — 58% Apr 1, 2026
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Methodist Hospital Plainview lowest Plainview, TX · (806) 296-5531 HC ED INHALATION TREATMENT CDM $274.26 $653.00 — 58% Apr 1, 2026
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Inpatient: lowest $274.26, median $274.26, highest $274.26.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $274.26 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

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.

Methodist Hospital Plainview Plainview, TXHC PR 94640 NEBULIZER SMALL VOLUME RHC $10.92 file
Methodist Hospital Plainview Plainview, TXHC PR 94640 AIRWAY INHALATION TREATMENT RHC $10.92 file