Breathing treatment cost in San Juan, PR
In San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR, 2 hospitals list a cash price for breathing treatment (nebulizer or inhaler) for airway obstruction: from $50.00 to $50.00, with a median of $50.00. The lowest listed price is at Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon and 1 other hospital. Across Puerto Rico, the median is $50.00 at 4 hospitals.
Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities 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 San Juan-Bayamón-Caguas, PR.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon lowest Bayamon, PR · (787) 622-5420 Inline Power Neb | $50.00 | $50.00 | $13.00–$134.00 | — | — source file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - San Juan lowest Santurce, PR · (787) 723-2950 Inline Power Neb | $50.00 | $50.00 | $20.00–$134.00 | — | — source file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon Bayamon, PR · (787) 622-5420 Inline Power Neb Atroven | $56.00 | $56.00 | $13.00–$134.00 | — | — source file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon Bayamon, PR · (787) 622-5420 Power Neb Atrovent | $56.00 | $56.00 | $13.00–$134.00 | — | — source file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - San Juan Santurce, PR · (787) 723-2950 Inline Power Neb Atroven | $56.00 | $56.00 | $20.00–$134.00 | — | — source file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon Bayamon, PR · (787) 622-5420 Ambulancy Service Medicare | $300.00 | $300.00 | $13.00–$134.00 | — | — source file |
Outpatient: lowest $50.00, median $50.00, highest $50.00.
Cash or insurance?
At 2 of 2 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 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.
4 rows held back from this comparison
They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 94640 ($177.45). 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.
| Doctors' Center Hospital - San Juan Santurce, PRSputum Induction | $10.00 | file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon Bayamon, PRMetered Dose Inhaler | $15.00 | file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - Bayamon Bayamon, PRInhalation Therapy | $15.00 | file |
| Doctors' Center Hospital - San Juan Santurce, PRMetered Dose Inhaler | $15.00 | file |