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Procedure price report · Traction, splints, and other wound care

Full-body therapy tank immersion, each 15 minutes

CPT 97036the billing code this page is about

The patient is immersed in a large therapy tank with the therapist in attendance; one unit equals 15 minutes of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $85 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 424 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $96. Most fall between $46 and $159 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
424
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 424 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$50$85$153$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($35 vs $255).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $34: 21 hospitals$27$34 – $43: 31 hospitals$43 – $54: 41 hospitals$43$54 – $69: 54 hospitals$69 – $88: 51 hospitals$69$88 – $111: 28 hospitals$111 – $141: 41 hospitals$111$141 – $179: 69 hospitals$179 – $228: 15 hospitals$179$228 – $289: 33 hospitals$228median $85price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (384 of 424 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$3421
$34$4331
$43$5441
$54$6954
$69$8851
$88$11128
$111$14141
$141$17969
$179$22815
$228$28933

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $85.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $57 across 14 hospitalsIL$57Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $40 across 26 hospitalsNY$40Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $64 across 16 hospitalsIA$64Indiana: median $73 across 10 hospitalsIN$73Ohio: median $127 across 26 hospitalsOH$127Pennsylvania: median $251 across 11 hospitalsPA$251New Jersey: median $46 across 15 hospitalsNJ$46Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $153 across 46 hospitalsCA$153Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $68 across 11 hospitalsCO$68Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $64 across 10 hospitalsMO$64Kentucky: median $173 across 14 hospitalsKY$173West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 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 $55 across 17 hospitalsOK$55Louisiana: median $35 across 14 hospitalsLA$35Mississippi: median $77 across 17 hospitalsMS$77Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $48 across 11 hospitalsGA$48Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $145 across 35 hospitalsTX$145Florida: median $267 across 27 hospitalsFL$267
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $85. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL27$267+214%$64 – $772
Pennsylvania PA11$251+195%$143 – $255
Kentucky KY14$173+103%$69 – $173
California CA46$153+81%$138 – $176
Texas TX35$145+71%$138 – $258
Ohio OH26$127+49%$74 – $151
Mississippi MS17$77−10%$30 – $91
Indiana IN10$73−14%$29 – $109
Colorado CO11$68−20%$68 – $272
Missouri MO10$64−24%$54 – $133
Iowa IA16$64−25%$55 – $78
Illinois IL14$57−33%$29 – $146
Oklahoma OK17$55−35%$37 – $55
Georgia GA11$48−44%$48 – $83
New Jersey NJ15$46−46%$45 – $46
New York NY26$40−53%$39 – $101
Louisiana LA14$35−59%$27 – $74
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $85.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care359$86$46 – $159
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access46$78$39 – $145
Ownership
For-profit57$164$48 – $527
Government58$59$37 – $91
Non-profit308$87$47 – $153
System affiliation
Part of a system367$88$46 – $173
Independent57$74$49 – $122

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$175
Median cash price$85
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

268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $88 and the average of the middle 60% is $104; most fall between $55 and $153.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 268 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
$38$55$88$151$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $255).

Of the 293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 268 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 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

424 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 450 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted424
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code450

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 Traction, splints, and other wound care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Appl Modality 1+ Areas Hubbard Tank Ea 15 Min.

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, “Full-body therapy tank immersion, each 15 minutes (CPT 97036) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97036-full-body-therapy-tank-immersion-each-15-minutes