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

Laser treatment of skin disease, 250 to 500 sq cm

CPT 96921the billing code this page is about

One laser treatment session for an inflammatory skin disease such as psoriasis, covering a total treated area of 250 to 500 square centimeters.

Hospitals typically charge $263 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 242 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $289. Most fall between $146 and $527 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
242
States
37
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 242 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
$104$164$263$409$579

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($104 vs $579).

How the prices are spread

$73 – $91: 8 hospitals$73$91 – $115: 6 hospitals$115 – $145: 20 hospitals$115$145 – $182: 19 hospitals$182 – $229: 18 hospitals$182$229 – $288: 51 hospitals$288 – $362: 17 hospitals$288$362 – $456: 40 hospitals$456 – $573: 25 hospitals$456$573 – $721: 14 hospitals$573median $263price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (218 of 242 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$73$918
$91$1156
$115$14520
$145$18219
$182$22918
$229$28851
$288$36217
$362$45640
$456$57325
$573$72114

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$263
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.28×

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 $263.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $161 across 17 hospitalsIL$161Wisconsin: median $721 across 10 hospitalsWI$721Michigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $235 across 25 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $388 across 12 hospitalsIA$388Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $43 across 17 hospitalsPA$43New Jersey: median $220 across 11 hospitalsNJ$220Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $566 across 37 hospitalsCA$566Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $141 across 12 hospitalsOK$141Louisiana: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $263 across 17 hospitalsTX$263Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $263. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI10$721+174%$146 – $721
California CA37$566+115%$373 – $566
Iowa IA12$388+48%$388 – $388
Texas TX17$2630%$263 – $263
New York NY25$235−10%$235 – $453
New Jersey NJ11$220−16%$217 – $234
Illinois IL17$161−39%$122 – $566
Oklahoma OK12$141−46%$141 – $141
Pennsylvania PA17$43−83%$35 – $428
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not 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
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $263.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care213$263$142 – $453
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government27$235$190 – $390
Non-profit199$268$146 – $566
System affiliation
Part of a system202$263$146 – $566
Independent40$227$145 – $347

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$485
Median cash price$263
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

155 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $373 and the average of the middle 60% is $358; most fall between $154 and $566.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 155 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
$141$178$373$566$855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($141 vs $855).

Of the 170 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 155 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 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

242 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 257 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted242
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code257

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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 EXCIMER LSR PSRIASIS 250-500.

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, “Laser treatment of skin disease, 250 to 500 sq cm (CPT 96921) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96921-laser-treatment-of-skin-disease-250-to-500-sq-cm