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

Iontophoresis medicine delivery, each 15 minutes

CPT 97033the billing code this page is about

A mild electrical current pushes medication through the skin into tissue while the therapist stays with the patient; one unit equals 15 minutes.

Hospitals typically charge $87 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,922 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $91. Most fall between $50 and $142 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,922
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 2,922 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
$35$57$87$130$196

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $196).

How the prices are spread

$26 – $32: 106 hospitals$26$32 – $41: 135 hospitals$41 – $52: 252 hospitals$41$52 – $66: 283 hospitals$66 – $84: 459 hospitals$66$84 – $106: 429 hospitals$106 – $134: 449 hospitals$106$134 – $170: 254 hospitals$170 – $215: 175 hospitals$170$215 – $273: 90 hospitals$215median $87price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,632 of 2,922 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$26$32106
$32$41135
$41$52252
$52$66283
$66$84459
$84$106429
$106$134449
$134$170254
$170$215175
$215$27390

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $87.

Alaska: median $130 across 15 hospitalsAK$130Maine: median $57 across 26 hospitalsME$57Vermont: median $79 across 14 hospitalsVT$79New Hampshire: median $69 across 20 hospitalsNH$69Washington: median $76 across 51 hospitalsWA$76Idaho: median $68 across 21 hospitalsID$68Montana: median $66 across 27 hospitalsMT$66North Dakota: median $94 across 29 hospitalsND$94Minnesota: median $86 across 99 hospitalsMN$86Illinois: median $116 across 124 hospitalsIL$116Wisconsin: median $102 across 98 hospitalsWI$102Michigan: median $88 across 88 hospitalsMI$88New York: median $76 across 92 hospitalsNY$76Massachusetts: median $141 across 38 hospitalsMA$141Oregon: median $88 across 47 hospitalsOR$88Nevada: median $70 across 18 hospitalsNV$70Wyoming: median $92 across 14 hospitalsWY$92South Dakota: median $130 across 34 hospitalsSD$130Iowa: median $97 across 92 hospitalsIA$97Indiana: median $86 across 91 hospitalsIN$86Ohio: median $111 across 140 hospitalsOH$111Pennsylvania: median $81 across 87 hospitalsPA$81New Jersey: median $56 across 39 hospitalsNJ$56Connecticut: median $81 across 12 hospitalsCT$81Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $109 across 153 hospitalsCA$109Utah: median $106 across 35 hospitalsUT$106Colorado: median $76 across 66 hospitalsCO$76Nebraska: median $106 across 71 hospitalsNE$106Missouri: median $77 across 76 hospitalsMO$77Kentucky: median $101 across 63 hospitalsKY$101West Virginia: median $61 across 25 hospitalsWV$61Virginia: median $71 across 54 hospitalsVA$71Maryland: median $56 across 31 hospitalsMD$56Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $60 across 46 hospitalsAZ$60New Mexico: median $82 across 22 hospitalsNM$82Kansas: median $61 across 90 hospitalsKS$61Arkansas: median $64 across 22 hospitalsAR$64Tennessee: median $41 across 65 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $85 across 89 hospitalsNC$85South Carolina: median $112 across 52 hospitalsSC$112Oklahoma: median $68 across 60 hospitalsOK$68Louisiana: median $42 across 41 hospitalsLA$42Mississippi: median $55 across 51 hospitalsMS$55Alabama: median $72 across 35 hospitalsAL$72Georgia: median $78 across 99 hospitalsGA$78Hawaii: median $102 across 11 hospitalsHI$102Texas: median $106 across 196 hospitalsTX$106Florida: median $151 across 141 hospitalsFL$151
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $87. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL141$151+74%$47 – $363
Massachusetts MA38$141+62%$79 – $196
Alaska AK15$130+49%$76 – $200
South Dakota SD34$130+49%$94 – $188
Illinois IL124$116+34%$68 – $191
South Carolina SC52$112+28%$79 – $181
Ohio OH140$111+27%$69 – $134
California CA153$109+25%$70 – $178
Utah UT35$106+22%$77 – $115
Texas TX196$106+22%$49 – $179
Nebraska NE71$106+21%$71 – $133
Wisconsin WI98$102+17%$77 – $120
Hawaii HI11$102+17%$84 – $132
Kentucky KY63$101+16%$56 – $199
Iowa IA92$97+11%$69 – $128
North Dakota ND29$94+8%$81 – $114
Wyoming WY14$92+5%$51 – $127
Oregon OR47$88+1%$59 – $102
Michigan MI88$88+1%$47 – $139
Minnesota MN99$86−1%$65 – $124
Indiana IN91$86−1%$32 – $121
North Carolina NC89$85−2%$58 – $135
New Mexico NM22$82−6%$59 – $111
Connecticut CT12$81−7%$60 – $103
Pennsylvania PA87$81−7%$34 – $139
Vermont VT14$79−9%$46 – $129
Georgia GA99$78−10%$46 – $135
Missouri MO76$77−11%$52 – $118
Colorado CO66$76−13%$54 – $107
New York NY92$76−13%$35 – $162
Washington WA51$76−13%$45 – $101
Alabama AL35$72−17%$37 – $136
Virginia VA54$71−19%$66 – $126
Nevada NV18$70−20%$44 – $114
New Hampshire NH20$69−21%$16 – $173
Oklahoma OK60$68−22%$43 – $113
Idaho ID21$68−22%$47 – $78
Montana MT27$66−24%$56 – $90
Arkansas AR22$64−27%$39 – $86
West Virginia WV25$61−30%$50 – $75
Kansas KS90$61−30%$48 – $102
Arizona AZ46$60−31%$28 – $319
Maine ME26$57−35%$37 – $142
New Jersey NJ39$56−35%$24 – $192
Maryland MD31$56−36%$34 – $70
Mississippi MS51$55−37%$38 – $81
Louisiana LA41$42−52%$30 – $62
Tennessee TN65$41−53%$28 – $75
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $87.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,001$84$47 – $155
Children’s50$129$60 – $166
Critical access861$92$55 – $127
Ownership
For-profit362$113$50 – $315
Government568$80$48 – $126
Non-profit1,982$86$51 – $138
System affiliation
Part of a system2,375$91$51 – $149
Independent547$77$47 – $127

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$145
Median cash price$87
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,999 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $91 and the average of the middle 60% is $93; most fall between $52 and $141.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,999 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
$37$60$91$130$186

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $186).

Of the 2,134 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,999 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,922 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (74%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,093 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,922
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded127
Hospitals that filed this code3,093

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 HC 97033 Iontophoresis-Ot Ea 15min.

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, “Iontophoresis medicine delivery, each 15 minutes (CPT 97033) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97033-iontophoresis-medicine-delivery-each-15-minutes