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Procedure price report · Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue

Skin light-sensitivity test, per test

CPT 95056the billing code this page is about

Areas of skin are exposed to measured amounts of light to check for an abnormal sensitivity reaction; the charge applies to each test performed.

Hospitals typically charge $131 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 195 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $126. Most fall between $76 and $204 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
195
States
33
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 195 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$39$82$131$166$256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $256).

How the prices are spread

$33 – $41: 17 hospitals$33$41 – $51: 6 hospitals$51 – $64: 6 hospitals$51$64 – $80: 7 hospitals$80 – $101: 35 hospitals$80$101 – $126: 10 hospitals$126 – $159: 59 hospitals$126$159 – $199: 12 hospitals$199 – $249: 4 hospitals$199$249 – $312: 29 hospitals$249median $131price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (185 of 195 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$33$4117
$41$516
$51$646
$64$807
$80$10135
$101$12610
$126$15959
$159$19912
$199$2494
$249$31229

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$131
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $131.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $75 across 15 hospitalsIL$75Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $153 across 22 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $138 across 15 hospitalsIA$138Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $95 across 13 hospitalsPA$95New Jersey: median $143 across 10 hospitalsNJ$143Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $256 across 35 hospitalsCA$256Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $82 across 12 hospitalsOK$82Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $131. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$256+96%$131 – $256
New York NY22$153+16%$136 – $166
New Jersey NJ10$143+9%$141 – $152
Iowa IA15$138+5%$102 – $138
Pennsylvania PA13$95−27%$66 – $117
Oklahoma OK12$82−37%$82 – $82
Illinois IL15$75−42%$33 – $128
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $131.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care183$131$82 – $220
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access9fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit12fewer than 20 hospitals
Government30$96$76 – $153
Non-profit153$134$82 – $252
System affiliation
Part of a system166$131$82 – $224
Independent29$114$66 – $165

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$172
Median cash price$131
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

129 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $127 and the average of the middle 60% is $120; most fall between $76 and $252.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 129 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$36$82$127$157$256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $256).

Of the 136 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 129 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

195 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 203 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted195
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code203

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other diagnostic procedures on skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Photo Tests.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Skin light-sensitivity test, per test (CPT 95056) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-95056-skin-light-sensitivity-test-per-test