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

Contrast hot and cold baths, each 15 minutes

CPT 97034the billing code this page is about

The treated area is alternated between warm and cold water baths with the therapist present; one unit equals 15 minutes of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $61 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,893 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $63. Most fall between $32 and $100 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,893
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 1,893 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
$21$38$61$92$133

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($21 vs $133).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $21: 106 hospitals$17$21 – $27: 124 hospitals$27 – $35: 115 hospitals$27$35 – $45: 184 hospitals$45 – $57: 251 hospitals$45$57 – $74: 258 hospitals$74 – $94: 338 hospitals$74$94 – $121: 177 hospitals$121 – $154: 100 hospitals$121$154 – $198: 57 hospitals$154median $61price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,710 of 1,893 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$21106
$21$27124
$27$35115
$35$45184
$45$57251
$57$74258
$74$94338
$94$121177
$121$154100
$154$19857

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $61.

Alaska: median $108 across 14 hospitalsAK$108Maine: median $41 across 22 hospitalsME$41Vermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $40 across 14 hospitalsNH$40Washington: median $56 across 42 hospitalsWA$56Idaho: median $34 across 14 hospitalsID$34Montana: median $44 across 13 hospitalsMT$44North Dakota: median $64 across 18 hospitalsND$64Minnesota: median $77 across 40 hospitalsMN$77Illinois: median $82 across 54 hospitalsIL$82Wisconsin: median $56 across 35 hospitalsWI$56Michigan: median $57 across 46 hospitalsMI$57New York: median $45 across 67 hospitalsNY$45Massachusetts: median $74 across 12 hospitalsMA$74Oregon: median $71 across 35 hospitalsOR$71Nevada: median $56 across 15 hospitalsNV$56Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $74 across 15 hospitalsSD$74Iowa: median $62 across 52 hospitalsIA$62Indiana: median $37 across 53 hospitalsIN$37Ohio: median $82 across 104 hospitalsOH$82Pennsylvania: median $64 across 90 hospitalsPA$64New Jersey: median $18 across 34 hospitalsNJ$18Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $81 across 124 hospitalsCA$81Utah: median $74 across 31 hospitalsUT$74Colorado: median $46 across 48 hospitalsCO$46Nebraska: median $56 across 43 hospitalsNE$56Missouri: median $65 across 51 hospitalsMO$65Kentucky: median $59 across 33 hospitalsKY$59West Virginia: median $58 across 19 hospitalsWV$58Virginia: median $51 across 45 hospitalsVA$51Maryland: median $37 across 18 hospitalsMD$37Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $33 across 26 hospitalsAZ$33New Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $47 across 51 hospitalsKS$47Arkansas: median $53 across 15 hospitalsAR$53Tennessee: median $24 across 50 hospitalsTN$24North Carolina: median $67 across 45 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $86 across 29 hospitalsSC$86Oklahoma: median $41 across 40 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $26 across 33 hospitalsLA$26Mississippi: median $35 across 45 hospitalsMS$35Alabama: median $41 across 16 hospitalsAL$41Georgia: median $59 across 58 hospitalsGA$59Hawaii: median $66 across 10 hospitalsHI$66Texas: median $87 across 155 hospitalsTX$87Florida: median $99 across 81 hospitalsFL$99
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $61. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK14$108+78%$75 – $189
Florida FL81$99+63%$49 – $213
Texas TX155$87+44%$43 – $131
South Carolina SC29$86+42%$21 – $110
Illinois IL54$82+35%$34 – $146
Ohio OH104$82+35%$53 – $113
California CA124$81+33%$42 – $123
Minnesota MN40$77+28%$59 – $99
South Dakota SD15$74+22%$74 – $87
Utah UT31$74+22%$74 – $94
Massachusetts MA12$74+21%$48 – $111
Oregon OR35$71+16%$47 – $74
North Carolina NC45$67+10%$30 – $78
Hawaii HI10$66+8%$48 – $110
Missouri MO51$65+7%$42 – $87
North Dakota ND18$64+6%$52 – $91
Pennsylvania PA90$64+6%$30 – $96
Iowa IA52$62+3%$33 – $87
Kentucky KY33$59−2%$50 – $106
Georgia GA58$59−3%$27 – $91
West Virginia WV19$58−4%$35 – $112
Michigan MI46$57−6%$33 – $94
Nebraska NE43$56−7%$38 – $83
Wisconsin WI35$56−8%$47 – $82
Nevada NV15$56−8%$29 – $88
Washington WA42$56−8%$28 – $78
Arkansas AR15$53−12%$25 – $56
Virginia VA45$51−15%$48 – $71
Kansas KS51$47−22%$35 – $71
Colorado CO48$46−24%$23 – $72
New York NY67$45−26%$20 – $88
Montana MT13$44−27%$34 – $64
Oklahoma OK40$41−32%$22 – $59
Maine ME22$41−32%$23 – $63
Alabama AL16$41−32%$27 – $54
New Hampshire NH14$40−34%$13 – $100
Indiana IN53$37−38%$19 – $80
Maryland MD18$37−40%$26 – $44
Mississippi MS45$35−42%$22 – $54
Idaho ID14$34−44%$34 – $74
Arizona AZ26$33−46%$21 – $101
Louisiana LA33$26−57%$14 – $48
Tennessee TN50$24−60%$11 – $59
New Jersey NJ34$18−71%$17 – $132
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $61.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,333$61$27 – $106
Children’s31$85$58 – $122
Critical access524$59$38 – $91
Ownership
For-profit239$87$38 – $207
Government348$54$29 – $86
Non-profit1,301$61$31 – $94
System affiliation
Part of a system1,566$62$32 – $100
Independent327$53$33 – $99

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$104
Median cash price$61
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,287 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $62 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $34 and $98.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,287 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
$23$39$62$93$128

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $128).

Of the 1,378 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,287 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,893 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,008 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,893
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded84
Hospitals that filed this code2,008

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 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 Physical, occupational, and speech therapy exercises; manipulation; and other procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as APP MDLTY 1+CNTRST BTH EA 15.

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, “Contrast hot and cold baths, each 15 minutes (CPT 97034) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97034-contrast-hot-and-cold-baths-each-15-minutes