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Automated Pure-Tone Hearing Test

California rates for HCPCS 0208T

An automated test that finds the softest tones you can hear across a range of pitches, played through earphones. The equipment presents the tones and records your responses rather than a technician working through each step by hand. It measures hearing along the normal path through the ear canal.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Automated Pure-Tone Hearing Test cost?

$32.36

Typical negotiated rate. In California, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $32.36 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $32.36 from a physician practice, and about $34.67 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$32.36$26.92 to $38.02
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$34.67$28.84 to $46.77

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $35 · 10th to 90th $23 to $209Professionalmedian $32 · 10th to 90th $21 to $44
$20$50$100$200facility $35professional $32

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$43.65
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$117.49
Blue Shield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$36.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$12.59
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$173.78
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$831.76
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$208.93
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$302.00
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$48.98
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$173.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$35.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$53.70

Where California sits

The same service costs 1.6 times more in Vermont than in Kentucky. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

California· 26th of 51

$32.36

VT $43.65KY $27.54

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.