# Swallowing therapy session in Columbus, GA

Billing code `92526`. Prices for this code at 6 hospitals within 35 miles of Columbus, 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/columbus/swallowing-therapy-session

HC SLP ORAL FUNCTION THERAPY

## 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; 1 publish both, mixed together; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $77 |
| Typical | $144 |
| Highest reported | $287 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Center Barbour | EUFAULA, AL (32.3 mi) | not rated | $77 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $91 | $42 | $178 | 15 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS (~0 mi) | 3/5 | $84 | $84 | not mentioned | not published | $80 | $200 | 8 |
| Warm Springs Medical Center | WARM SPRINGS (30.1 mi) | not rated | $85 | $85 | not mentioned | $58 | $45 | $117 | 156 |
| The East Alabama Healthcare Authority | OPELIKA, AL (28.9 mi) | 3/5 | see split | $148 | $77 | $102 | $27 | $185 | 130 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 2/5 | $257 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $108 | $52 | $362 | 20 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 5/5 | $287 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $108 | $42 | $362 | 19 |

## 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 5 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 1 it is higher.

3 of these 6 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Medical Center Barbour, Warm Springs Medical Center, The East Alabama Healthcare Authority.

## 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 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
- [Speech fluency evaluation](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/speech-fluency-evaluation) -- 88 hospitals, typically $175
- [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 2024-07-11 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.