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Automated Pure-Tone Hearing Test

Virginia 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 Virginia, 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 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$30.90$23.99 to $38.02
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$33.11$28.84 to $38.90

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $33 · 10th to 90th $21 to $50Professionalmedian $31 · 10th to 90th $20 to $44
$20$50facility $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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$43.65
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$51.29
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$40.74
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$57.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$48.98
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$44.67
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$54.95
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$56.23
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$38.90

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 37th 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.