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

All-day light therapy for severe skin disease

CPT 96913the billing code this page is about

An intensive light treatment session for a severe skin condition lasting roughly four to eight hours under direct physician supervision, including dressings and related care.

Hospitals typically charge $469 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 181 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $479. Most fall between $237 and $855 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
181
States
30
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 181 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
$119$271$469$636$1,198

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($119 vs $1,198).

How the prices are spread

$96 – $124: 12 hospitals$96$124 – $159: 7 hospitals$159 – $205: 10 hospitals$159$205 – $264: 4 hospitals$264 – $340: 30 hospitals$264$340 – $437: 10 hospitals$437 – $562: 53 hospitals$437$562 – $724: 5 hospitals$724 – $931: 20 hospitals$724$931 – $1,198: 21 hospitals$931median $469price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (172 of 181 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$96$12412
$124$1597
$159$20510
$205$2644
$264$34030
$340$43710
$437$56253
$562$7245
$724$93120
$931$1,19821

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$415
Median cash price$469
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $469.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $473 across 21 hospitalsNY$473Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 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 $305 across 12 hospitalsIA$305Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $468 across 11 hospitalsPA$468New Jersey: median $442 across 13 hospitalsNJ$442Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,198 across 35 hospitalsCA$1,198Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $271 across 12 hospitalsOK$271Louisiana: 2 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $469. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$1,198+156%$855 – $1,198
New York NY21$473+1%$473 – $507
Pennsylvania PA11$4680%$459 – $480
New Jersey NJ13$442−6%$437 – $471
Iowa IA12$305−35%$305 – $305
Oklahoma OK12$271−42%$271 – $271
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not 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
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $469.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care165$473$271 – $855
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access11fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit15fewer than 20 hospitals
Government21$473$256 – $495
Non-profit145$469$267 – $855
System affiliation
Part of a system156$473$271 – $855
Independent25$344$188 – $535

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$482
Median cash price$469
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

118 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $462 and the average of the middle 60% is $473; most fall between $200 and $855.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 118 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
$96$271$462$855$1,198

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($96 vs $1,198).

Of the 124 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 118 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 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

181 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 185 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted181
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code185

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 SEV DERMATOSES.

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, “All-day light therapy for severe skin disease (CPT 96913) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96913-all-day-light-therapy-for-severe-skin-disease