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

Infrared heat lamp treatment

CPT 97026the billing code this page is about

Infrared light is applied to one or more body areas to warm tissue during a therapy visit; billed once per session, not by the minute.

Hospitals typically charge $36 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,101 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $37. Most fall between $15 and $71 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,101
States
49
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 1,101 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$18$36$64$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($9 vs $101).

How the prices are spread

$8 – $10: 73 hospitals$8$10 – $14: 71 hospitals$14 – $18: 102 hospitals$14$18 – $25: 111 hospitals$25 – $33: 94 hospitals$25$33 – $44: 162 hospitals$44 – $58: 125 hospitals$44$58 – $78: 124 hospitals$78 – $104: 87 hospitals$78$104 – $139: 42 hospitals$104median $36price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (991 of 1,101 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$8$1073
$10$1471
$14$18102
$18$25111
$25$3394
$33$44162
$44$58125
$58$78124
$78$10487
$104$13942

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $36.

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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $30 across 20 hospitalsWA$30Idaho: median $16 across 10 hospitalsID$16Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $58 across 46 hospitalsMN$58Illinois: median $42 across 45 hospitalsIL$42Wisconsin: median $38 across 39 hospitalsWI$38Michigan: median $24 across 43 hospitalsMI$24New York: median $21 across 46 hospitalsNY$21Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $23 across 16 hospitalsOR$23Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $76 across 13 hospitalsSD$76Iowa: median $25 across 31 hospitalsIA$25Indiana: median $16 across 25 hospitalsIN$16Ohio: median $38 across 61 hospitalsOH$38Pennsylvania: median $40 across 45 hospitalsPA$40New Jersey: median $9 across 27 hospitalsNJ$9Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $68 across 72 hospitalsCA$68Utah: median $35 across 24 hospitalsUT$35Colorado: median $29 across 34 hospitalsCO$29Nebraska: median $26 across 19 hospitalsNE$26Missouri: median $44 across 29 hospitalsMO$44Kentucky: median $48 across 22 hospitalsKY$48West Virginia: median $27 across 11 hospitalsWV$27Virginia: median $19 across 30 hospitalsVA$19Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $22 across 20 hospitalsKS$22Arkansas: median $33 across 11 hospitalsAR$33Tennessee: median $17 across 27 hospitalsTN$17North Carolina: median $46 across 32 hospitalsNC$46South Carolina: median $67 across 23 hospitalsSC$67Oklahoma: median $11 across 25 hospitalsOK$11Louisiana: median $22 across 12 hospitalsLA$22Mississippi: median $12 across 10 hospitalsMS$12Alabama: median $34 across 10 hospitalsAL$34Georgia: median $46 across 13 hospitalsGA$46Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $43 across 91 hospitalsTX$43Florida: median $72 across 41 hospitalsFL$72
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $36. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Dakota SD13$76+111%$58 – $76
Florida FL41$72+100%$38 – $252
California CA72$68+89%$23 – $101
South Carolina SC23$67+86%$16 – $75
Minnesota MN46$58+61%$41 – $118
Kentucky KY22$48+33%$11 – $64
North Carolina NC32$46+28%$22 – $64
Georgia GA13$46+27%$10 – $68
Missouri MO29$44+21%$15 – $64
Texas TX91$43+20%$25 – $108
Illinois IL45$42+16%$13 – $80
Pennsylvania PA45$40+12%$26 – $81
Ohio OH61$38+5%$14 – $92
Wisconsin WI39$38+4%$21 – $89
Utah UT24$35−2%$35 – $44
Alabama AL10$34−5%$18 – $84
Arkansas AR11$33−8%$16 – $44
Washington WA20$30−16%$23 – $49
Colorado CO34$29−18%$12 – $72
West Virginia WV11$27−24%$21 – $60
Nebraska NE19$26−28%$17 – $42
Iowa IA31$25−31%$13 – $58
Michigan MI43$24−33%$10 – $48
Oregon OR16$23−36%$15 – $60
Louisiana LA12$22−39%$9 – $39
Kansas KS20$22−40%$6 – $33
New York NY46$21−42%$8 – $39
Virginia VA30$19−47%$14 – $34
Tennessee TN27$17−52%$4 – $18
Idaho ID10$16−56%$16 – $35
Indiana IN25$16−56%$8 – $52
Mississippi MS10$12−67%$9 – $27
Oklahoma OK25$11−69%$11 – $18
New Jersey NJ27$9−76%$8 – $35
Arizona AZ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $36.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care826$36$13 – $72
Children’s21$33$28 – $41
Critical access253$37$18 – $69
Ownership
For-profit114$43$12 – $129
Government181$36$12 – $64
Non-profit805$35$15 – $71
System affiliation
Part of a system951$37$15 – $72
Independent150$30$12 – $57

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$62
Median cash price$36
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

776 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $40 and the average of the middle 60% is $40; most fall between $16 and $73.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 776 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$18$40$67$101

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($11 vs $101).

Of the 824 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 776 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,101 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,163 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,101
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code1,163

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 Infrared.

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, “Infrared heat lamp treatment (CPT 97026) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97026-infrared-heat-lamp-treatment