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

Ultraviolet light treatment with light-sensitizing medicine

CPT 96912the billing code this page is about

One session of ultraviolet A light treatment given after a psoralen medicine is taken or applied to make the skin more sensitive to the light.

Hospitals typically charge $149 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 312 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $144. Most fall between $70 and $230 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
312
States
45
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 312 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
$57$74$149$210$347

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $347).

How the prices are spread

$49 – $60: 22 hospitals$49$60 – $75: 44 hospitals$75 – $93: 28 hospitals$75$93 – $115: 26 hospitals$115 – $143: 14 hospitals$115$143 – $178: 27 hospitals$178 – $220: 70 hospitals$178$220 – $274: 20 hospitals$274 – $340: 4 hospitals$274$340 – $422: 27 hospitals$340median $149price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (282 of 312 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$49$6022
$60$7544
$75$9328
$93$11526
$115$14314
$143$17827
$178$22070
$220$27420
$274$3404
$340$42227

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$60
Median cash price$149
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $149.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $81 across 12 hospitalsIL$81Wisconsin: median $446 across 16 hospitalsWI$446Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $74 across 34 hospitalsNY$74Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 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 $210 across 14 hospitalsIA$210Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $109 across 13 hospitalsOH$109Pennsylvania: median $70 across 16 hospitalsPA$70New Jersey: median $66 across 15 hospitalsNJ$66Connecticut: 5 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 $347 across 37 hospitalsCA$347Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 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: 2 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $187 across 12 hospitalsOK$187Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $57 across 10 hospitalsGA$57Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $197 across 19 hospitalsTX$197Florida: median $155 across 11 hospitalsFL$155
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $149. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI16$446+199%$230 – $468
California CA37$347+133%$198 – $347
Iowa IA14$210+41%$172 – $210
Texas TX19$197+32%$197 – $239
Oklahoma OK12$187+25%$187 – $187
Florida FL11$155+4%$109 – $169
Ohio OH13$109−27%$70 – $179
Illinois IL12$81−46%$64 – $98
New York NY34$74−51%$70 – $268
Pennsylvania PA16$70−53%$67 – $113
New Jersey NJ15$66−56%$63 – $70
Georgia GA10$57−62%$57 – $57
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $149.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care276$147$70 – $233
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access28$172$81 – $230
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government46$105$70 – $204
Non-profit249$157$70 – $239
System affiliation
Part of a system266$155$70 – $233
Independent46$147$82 – $204

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$263
Median cash price$149
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

210 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $187 and the average of the middle 60% is $173; most fall between $81 and $268.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 210 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
$57$87$187$239$347

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $347).

Of the 217 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 210 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

312 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 323 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted312
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code323

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 Photochemotx Psoralens&Ultraviolet a Puva.

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, “Ultraviolet light treatment with light-sensitizing medicine (CPT 96912) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96912-ultraviolet-light-treatment-with-light-sensitizing-medicine