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Automated Pure-Tone Hearing Test

Minnesota 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?

$33.88

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $33.88 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $33.88 from a physician practice, and about $32.36 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 6 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$33.88$30.90 to $35.48
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$32.36$26.92 to $75.86

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $32 · 10th to 90th $22 to $100Professionalmedian $34 · 10th to 90th $27 to $45
$20$50$100$200facility $32professional $34

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
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$32.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$43.65
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$97.72
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$33.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$125.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$48.98
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$208.93
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$38.90
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$63.10
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$72.44

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 15th of 51

$33.88

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.