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

Ultraviolet light treatment for a skin condition

CPT 96900the billing code this page is about

A single session of treatment in which the skin is exposed to ultraviolet light to treat a skin disease.

Hospitals typically charge $70 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 721 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $76. Most fall between $42 and $139 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
721
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 721 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
$30$45$70$116$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($30 vs $181).

How the prices are spread

$18 – $23: 23 hospitals$18$23 – $29: 17 hospitals$29 – $38: 39 hospitals$29$38 – $49: 110 hospitals$49 – $63: 112 hospitals$49$63 – $81: 79 hospitals$81 – $105: 103 hospitals$81$105 – $136: 54 hospitals$136 – $176: 76 hospitals$136$176 – $227: 41 hospitals$176median $70price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (654 of 721 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$18$2323
$23$2917
$29$3839
$38$49110
$49$63112
$63$8179
$81$105103
$105$13654
$136$17676
$176$22741

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$70
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.82×

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 $70.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $72 across 36 hospitalsWA$72Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $77 across 18 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $43 across 21 hospitalsIL$43Wisconsin: median $86 across 41 hospitalsWI$86Michigan: median $51 across 11 hospitalsMI$51New York: median $46 across 42 hospitalsNY$46Massachusetts: median $99 across 12 hospitalsMA$99Oregon: median $106 across 21 hospitalsOR$106Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $143 across 26 hospitalsIA$143Indiana: median $37 across 14 hospitalsIN$37Ohio: median $115 across 31 hospitalsOH$115Pennsylvania: median $70 across 30 hospitalsPA$70New Jersey: median $43 across 21 hospitalsNJ$43Connecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $157 across 48 hospitalsCA$157Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $45 across 16 hospitalsMO$45Kentucky: median $38 across 12 hospitalsKY$38West Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $62 across 17 hospitalsVA$62Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $16 across 12 hospitalsAR$16Tennessee: median $55 across 18 hospitalsTN$55North Carolina: median $57 across 20 hospitalsNC$57South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $42 across 20 hospitalsOK$42Louisiana: median $34 across 20 hospitalsLA$34Mississippi: median $46 across 10 hospitalsMS$46Alabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $54 across 27 hospitalsGA$54Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $114 across 36 hospitalsTX$114Florida: median $90 across 21 hospitalsFL$90
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $70. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA48$157+125%$100 – $157
Iowa IA26$143+105%$58 – $214
Ohio OH31$115+65%$49 – $139
Texas TX36$114+64%$35 – $140
Oregon OR21$106+52%$38 – $197
Massachusetts MA12$99+43%$74 – $270
Florida FL21$90+29%$60 – $90
Wisconsin WI41$86+23%$60 – $100
Minnesota MN18$77+11%$59 – $77
Washington WA36$72+3%$49 – $106
Pennsylvania PA30$70+1%$44 – $194
Virginia VA17$62−11%$49 – $137
North Carolina NC20$57−18%$38 – $125
Tennessee TN18$55−21%$23 – $65
Georgia GA27$54−22%$54 – $64
Michigan MI11$51−26%$43 – $60
New York NY42$46−33%$32 – $90
Mississippi MS10$46−34%$28 – $51
Missouri MO16$45−36%$16 – $105
New Jersey NJ21$43−38%$43 – $54
Illinois IL21$43−39%$30 – $190
Oklahoma OK20$42−40%$42 – $111
Kentucky KY12$38−45%$22 – $101
Indiana IN14$37−46%$18 – $86
Louisiana LA20$34−51%$18 – $78
Arkansas AR12$16−78%$16 – $119
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $70.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care576$67$42 – $139
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access127$71$45 – $106
Ownership
For-profit52$54$28 – $113
Government108$62$43 – $127
Non-profit560$73$42 – $139
System affiliation
Part of a system607$70$42 – $137
Independent114$67$39 – $140

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$140
Median cash price$70
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

497 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $81 and the average of the middle 60% is $84; most fall between $44 and $140.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 497 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
$32$52$81$135$190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($32 vs $190).

Of the 516 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 497 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

721 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 749 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted721
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code749

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 Actinotherapy Ultraviolet Light.

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, “Ultraviolet light treatment for a skin condition (CPT 96900) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96900-ultraviolet-light-treatment-for-a-skin-condition