Breathing treatment cost in Utica, NY
In Utica-Rome, NY, 3 hospitals list a cash price for breathing treatment (nebulizer or inhaler) for airway obstruction: from $67.50 to $171.98, with a median of $82.80. The lowest listed price is at Little Falls Hospital — $15.30 less than the median here. Across New York, the median is $223.86 at 84 hospitals.
Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 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 Aug 11, 2026 and Aug 11, 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 Utica-Rome, NY.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Falls Hospital lowest Little Falls, NY · (315) 823-5261 HC Aerogen Solo Nebulizer Tx | $67.50 | $250.00 | $143.48–$92.50 | 73% | — source file |
| Mvhs Utica, NY HC Airway Inhalation Trmt | $82.80 | $138.00 | $3.03–$785.35 | 40% | — source file |
| Mvhs Utica, NY HC Airway Inhalation Trmt-Inhaler | $82.80 | $138.00 | $3.03–$785.35 | 40% | — source file |
| Mvhs Utica, NY HC Airway Inhalation Trmt-Inhaler | $82.80 | $138.00 | $3.03–$785.35 | 40% | — source file |
| Mvhs Utica, NY HC Airway Inhalation Trmt | $82.80 | $138.00 | $3.03–$785.35 | 40% | — source file |
| Little Falls Hospital Little Falls, NY · (315) 823-5261 HC Airway Inhalation Treat | $103.55 | $383.50 | $107.38–$70.00 | 73% | — source file |
| Rome Memorial Hospital Rome, NY · (315) 338-7000 Airway inhalation treatment | $171.98 | $426.00 | $14.00–$269.72 | 60% | Aug 11, 2026 source file |
| Rome Memorial Hospital Rome, NY · (315) 338-7000 Airway inhalatin treatment | $171.98 | $426.00 | $14.00–$269.72 | 60% | Aug 11, 2026 source file |
| Rome Memorial Hospital Rome, NY · (315) 338-7000 Airway inhalation treatment | $171.98 | $426.00 | $14.00–$269.72 | 60% | Aug 11, 2026 source file |
| Rome Memorial Hospital Rome, NY · (315) 338-7000 Airway inhalatin treatment | $171.98 | $426.00 | $14.00–$269.72 | 60% | Aug 11, 2026 source file |
Outpatient: lowest $67.50, median $82.80, highest $171.98 — a 2.5× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $127.39. 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 3 of 3 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is 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 ($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.
| Mvhs Utica, NYPressurized/Nonpressurized Inhalation Treatment | $9.60 | file |
| Mvhs Utica, NYPressurized/Nonpressurized Inhalation Treatment | $9.60 | file |
| Little Falls Hospital Little Falls, NYHC Metered Dose Inhaler (Mdi) 742 | $11.34 | file |
| Little Falls Hospital Little Falls, NYCAH PR Inhal Rx, Airway Obst/Dx Sputum Induct | $11.61 | file |