# Speech fluency evaluation in Athens, GA

Billing code `92521`. Prices for this code at 8 hospitals within 35 miles of Athens, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/athens/speech-fluency-evaluation

HC SLP EVALUATION OF SPEECH FLUENCY (STUTTER CLUTTER)

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 2 publish a facility charge; 6 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $128 |
| Typical | $345 |
| Highest reported | $373 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Hospital | ATHENS (0.0 mi) | 1/5 | $128 | $128 | not mentioned | $331 | $68 | $458 | 110 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE (34.5 mi) | 3/5 | $138 | $138 | not mentioned | $180 | $134 | $141 | 4 |
| Morgan Medical Center | MADISON (24.6 mi) | not rated | $322 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $322 | $550 | 8 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (34.4 mi) | 2/5 | $338 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $148 | $96 | $443 | 18 |
| Piedmont Walton Hospital | MONROE (18.9 mi) | 4/5 | $345 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $148 | $44 | $443 | 15 |
| Piedmont Newton Hospital | COVINGTON (33.7 mi) | 3/5 | $369 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $148 | $48 | $419 | 17 |
| Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center | ATHENS (0.0 mi) | 4/5 | $369 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $148 | $52 | $426 | 19 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (28.8 mi) | 3/5 | $373 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $448 | $90 | $597 | 1,170 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 4 of the 7 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 3 it is higher.

## Others in ear, nose & throat

- [Speech or language therapy session](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/speech-or-language-therapy-session) -- 102 hospitals, typically $106
- [Speech and language evaluation](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/speech-and-language-evaluation) -- 102 hospitals, typically $261
- [Swallowing therapy session](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/swallowing-therapy-session) -- 101 hospitals, typically $112
- [Swallowing evaluation](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/swallowing-evaluation) -- 101 hospitals, typically $126
- [Swallowing evaluation with X-ray](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/swallowing-evaluation-with-x-ray) -- 98 hospitals, typically $165
- [Communication device evaluation and prescription](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/communication-device-evaluation-and-prescription) -- 19 hospitals, typically $110

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-02-15 to 2026-07-28; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.