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Automated Pure-Tone Hearing Test

Nebraska 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?

$30.90

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $30.90 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $30.90 from a physician practice, and about $33.11 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$30.90$26.30 to $33.88
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$33.11$30.20 to $52.48

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $33 · 10th to 90th $30 to $68Professionalmedian $31 · 10th to 90th $21 to $49
$20$50$100$200facility $33professional $31

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$33.88
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$275.42
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$66.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$79.43
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$66.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$79.43
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$85.11
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$85.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$74.13

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 36th of 51

$30.90

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.