# Communication device evaluation and prescription in GA

Billing code `92605`. Prices for this code at 19 hospitals in GA, 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/communication-device-evaluation-and-prescription

HC SLP EVAL, NON-SPEECH GEN AUG/ALT COMMUN DEV

## 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, 5 publish a facility charge; 2 publish both, mixed together; 12 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $83 |
| Typical | $110 |
| Dearest tenth | $520 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 6-fold difference for the same billing code -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $83 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $83 | $83 | 1 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $83 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $83 | $83 | 1 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $83 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $83 | $83 | 1 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $83 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $83 | $83 | 1 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | $85 | $85 | not mentioned | not published | $85 | $102 | 10 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | $85 | $85 | not mentioned | not published | $85 | $87 | 9 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $86 | $86 | not mentioned | not published | $85 | $128 | 13 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $88 | $88 | not mentioned | not published | $88 | $88 | 1 |
| Blue Ridge Medical Center | BLUE RIDGE | not rated | $104 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $312 | $72 | $520 | 400 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $110 | $110 | not mentioned | not published | $110 | $110 | 1 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE | 1/5 | $177 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $81 | $625 | 10 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | see split | $208 | $158 | $169 | $48 | $338 | 56 |
| Tift Regional Medical Center | TIFTON | 3/5 | see split | $279 | $169 | $169 | $66 | $338 | 28 |
| Stephens County Hospital | TOCCOA | 2/5 | $335 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $244 | $131 | $406 | 10 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $520 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $600 | $71 | $800 | 400 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $520 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $600 | $71 | $800 | 404 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $520 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $600 | $71 | $800 | 432 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $520 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $600 | $71 | $800 | 432 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $520 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $600 | $71 | $800 | 400 |

## 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 3 of the 9 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 6 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
- [Speech fluency evaluation](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/speech-fluency-evaluation) -- 88 hospitals, typically $175

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Every procedure with a published price in GA: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga
Prices that look wrong: info@clearcharge.org

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 2025-11-19 to 2026-05-19; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.