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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Light therapy through a scope, first 30 minutes

CPT 96570the billing code this page is about

Covers the first 30 minutes of shining light through a scope to activate a drug in the airway or digestive tract; billed in addition to the scope procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $194 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 270 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $341. Most fall between $102 and $1,079 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
270
States
36
Filings dated
Jan 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 270 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
$56$109$194$798$1,805

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($56 vs $1,805).

How the prices are spread

$39 – $62: 17 hospitals$39$62 – $98: 21 hospitals$98 – $155: 55 hospitals$98$155 – $244: 35 hospitals$244 – $385: 20 hospitals$244$385 – $609: 32 hospitals$609 – $961: 14 hospitals$609$961 – $1,518: 32 hospitals$1,518 – $2,397: 6 hospitals$1,518$2,397 – $3,784: 13 hospitals$2,397median $194price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (245 of 270 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$39$6217
$62$9821
$98$15555
$155$24435
$244$38520
$385$60932
$609$96114
$961$1,51832
$1,518$2,3976
$2,397$3,78413

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $194.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $229 across 18 hospitalsIL$229Wisconsin: median $130 across 10 hospitalsWI$130Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $124 across 16 hospitalsIA$124Indiana: median $1,159 across 21 hospitalsIN$1,159Ohio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $41 across 17 hospitalsPA$41New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $582 across 24 hospitalsCA$582Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $3,784 across 14 hospitalsSC$3,784Oklahoma: median $109 across 10 hospitalsOK$109Louisiana: median $105 across 12 hospitalsLA$105Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $174 across 16 hospitalsTX$174Florida: median $939 across 19 hospitalsFL$939
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $194. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC14$3,784+1851%$3,784 – $3,784
Indiana IN21$1,159+497%$1,086 – $1,672
Florida FL19$939+384%$396 – $1,318
California CA24$582+200%$582 – $582
Illinois IL18$229+18%$56 – $4,061
Texas TX16$174−10%$174 – $192
Wisconsin WI10$130−33%$130 – $130
Iowa IA16$124−36%$124 – $135
Oklahoma OK10$109−44%$109 – $109
Louisiana LA12$105−46%$40 – $168
Pennsylvania PA17$41−79%$33 – $194
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $194.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care229$201$96 – $1,016
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$194$102 – $1,318
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government25$135$100 – $1,064
Non-profit227$210$102 – $1,086
System affiliation
Part of a system241$210$102 – $1,096
Independent29$149$105 – $394

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$320
Median cash price$194
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

186 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $276 and the average of the middle 60% is $369; most fall between $116 and $1,020.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 186 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
$75$124$276$798$1,318

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $1,318).

Of the 204 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 186 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

270 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 306 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted270
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here7
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code306

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 4, 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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Pdt Ndsc Abl Abnor Tiss via Activj Rx 30 Min.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Light therapy through a scope, first 30 minutes (CPT 96570) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96570-light-therapy-through-a-scope-first-30-minutes