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Procedure price report · Physical, occupational, and speech therapy exercises; manipulation; and other procedures

Diathermy deep heat treatment

CPT 97024the billing code this page is about

Shortwave or microwave energy is used to warm deep tissue in one or more areas during a therapy visit; billed once per session, not by the minute.

Hospitals typically charge $34 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 492 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $37. Most fall between $12 and $81 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
492
States
44
Filings dated
Jan 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 492 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
$9$14$34$73$93

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $93).

How the prices are spread

$7 – $9: 30 hospitals$7$9 – $12: 58 hospitals$12 – $16: 40 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 20 hospitals$22 – $29: 52 hospitals$22$29 – $39: 46 hospitals$39 – $52: 59 hospitals$39$52 – $69: 33 hospitals$69 – $92: 75 hospitals$69$92 – $123: 31 hospitals$92median $34price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (444 of 492 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$7$930
$9$1258
$12$1640
$16$2220
$22$2952
$29$3946
$39$5259
$52$6933
$69$9275
$92$12331

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $34.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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: median $81 across 13 hospitalsMN$81Illinois: median $71 across 34 hospitalsIL$71Wisconsin: median $86 across 18 hospitalsWI$86Michigan: median $12 across 14 hospitalsMI$12New York: median $17 across 31 hospitalsNY$17Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $14 across 14 hospitalsIA$14Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $29 across 16 hospitalsPA$29New Jersey: median $9 across 15 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $25 across 41 hospitalsCA$25Utah: median $74 across 21 hospitalsUT$74Colorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $50 across 12 hospitalsMO$50Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $59 across 23 hospitalsVA$59Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: median $33 across 15 hospitalsKS$33Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $6 across 12 hospitalsTN$6North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $12 across 14 hospitalsOK$12Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $29 across 17 hospitalsMS$29Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $50 across 24 hospitalsGA$50Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $39 across 36 hospitalsTX$39Florida: median $14 across 23 hospitalsFL$14
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $34. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI18$86+156%$48 – $86
Minnesota MN13$81+141%$77 – $90
Utah UT21$74+119%$74 – $93
Illinois IL34$71+109%$22 – $136
Virginia VA23$59+73%$18 – $59
Georgia GA24$50+49%$10 – $50
Missouri MO12$50+48%$39 – $73
Texas TX36$39+16%$17 – $53
Kansas KS15$33−2%$7 – $52
Mississippi MS17$29−14%$10 – $37
Pennsylvania PA16$29−15%$14 – $45
California CA41$25−27%$25 – $83
New York NY31$17−51%$8 – $58
Florida FL23$14−59%$11 – $50
Iowa IA14$14−60%$14 – $14
Michigan MI14$12−64%$10 – $86
Oklahoma OK14$12−65%$12 – $20
New Jersey NJ15$9−73%$9 – $9
Tennessee TN12$6−84%$6 – $10
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $34.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care364$28$10 – $77
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access114$41$19 – $86
Ownership
For-profit63$39$12 – $85
Government93$30$10 – $56
Non-profit336$34$12 – $81
System affiliation
Part of a system403$33$11 – $81
Independent89$36$13 – $71

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$61
Median cash price$34
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

322 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $39 and the average of the middle 60% is $42; most fall between $14 and $83.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 322 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
$11$15$39$74$93

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $93).

Of the 364 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 322 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

492 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 537 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted492
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 — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code537

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Physical, occupational, and speech therapy exercises; manipulation; and other procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Application Modality 1/> Areas Diathermy.

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, “Diathermy deep heat treatment (CPT 97024) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97024-diathermy-deep-heat-treatment