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

Scraping of precancerous skin spots plus light therapy

CPT 96574the billing code this page is about

Removal of thickened, crusted precancerous skin on the face or scalp, followed by application of a light-sensitizing medicine and treatment with light; billed once per day of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $437 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 302 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $427. Most fall between $234 and $681 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
302
States
42
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 302 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
$202$242$437$598$1,024

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($202 vs $1,024).

How the prices are spread

$161 – $198: 12 hospitals$161$198 – $243: 60 hospitals$243 – $299: 24 hospitals$243$299 – $366: 27 hospitals$366 – $450: 22 hospitals$366$450 – $552: 45 hospitals$552 – $678: 27 hospitals$552$678 – $832: 22 hospitals$832 – $1,021: 17 hospitals$832$1,021 – $1,253: 16 hospitals$1,021median $437price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (272 of 302 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$161$19812
$198$24360
$243$29924
$299$36627
$366$45022
$450$55245
$552$67827
$678$83222
$832$1,02117
$1,021$1,25316

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$437
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $437.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $858 across 16 hospitalsMN$858Illinois: median $311 across 12 hospitalsIL$311Wisconsin: median $681 across 23 hospitalsWI$681Michigan: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $235 across 21 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $575 across 14 hospitalsIA$575Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $220 across 11 hospitalsNJ$220Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $526 across 38 hospitalsCA$526Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $505 across 12 hospitalsOK$505Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $246 across 10 hospitalsMS$246Alabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $354 across 16 hospitalsTX$354Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $437. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN16$858+97%$543 – $1,127
Wisconsin WI23$681+56%$317 – $681
Iowa IA14$575+32%$305 – $575
California CA38$526+21%$526 – $1,000
Oklahoma OK12$505+16%$505 – $505
Texas TX16$354−19%$204 – $354
Illinois IL12$311−29%$161 – $1,204
Mississippi MS10$246−44%$246 – $364
New York NY21$235−46%$235 – $250
New Jersey NJ11$220−50%$217 – $234
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $437.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care248$387$225 – $681
Critical access53$557$317 – $681
Ownership
For-profit22$452$228 – $1,074
Government38$242$208 – $558
Non-profit241$447$234 – $681
System affiliation
Part of a system267$437$235 – $681
Independent35$424$199 – $626

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$719
Median cash price$437
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

193 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $526 and the average of the middle 60% is $501; most fall between $254 and $811.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 193 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
$204$317$526$681$1,086

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($204 vs $1,086).

Of the 214 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 193 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 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

302 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 325 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted302
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 code325

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 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 Debridement Prmlg Hyperkeratotic Les W/Pdt.

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, “Scraping of precancerous skin spots plus light therapy (CPT 96574) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96574-scraping-of-precancerous-skin-spots-plus-light-therapy