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

Hands-on manual therapy, 15 minutes

CPT 97140the billing code this page is about

Therapist-applied techniques such as soft tissue and myofascial work, joint mobilization, manual traction or lymph drainage; billed per 15 minutes of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $93 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 3,440 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $95. Most fall between $53 and $146 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
3,440
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 3,440 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$93$134$205

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($37 vs $205).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $36: 164 hospitals$29$36 – $46: 193 hospitals$46 – $57: 245 hospitals$46$57 – $72: 402 hospitals$72 – $90: 464 hospitals$72$90 – $113: 575 hospitals$113 – $142: 510 hospitals$113$142 – $178: 251 hospitals$178 – $224: 202 hospitals$178$224 – $281: 96 hospitals$224median $93price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (3,102 of 3,440 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$36164
$36$46193
$46$57245
$57$72402
$72$90464
$90$113575
$113$142510
$142$178251
$178$224202
$224$28196

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $93.

Alaska: median $172 across 19 hospitalsAK$172Maine: median $81 across 28 hospitalsME$81Vermont: median $105 across 14 hospitalsVT$105New Hampshire: median $87 across 24 hospitalsNH$87Washington: median $81 across 77 hospitalsWA$81Idaho: median $68 across 25 hospitalsID$68Montana: median $78 across 35 hospitalsMT$78North Dakota: median $106 across 31 hospitalsND$106Minnesota: median $92 across 107 hospitalsMN$92Illinois: median $119 across 142 hospitalsIL$119Wisconsin: median $93 across 106 hospitalsWI$93Michigan: median $90 across 97 hospitalsMI$90New York: median $89 across 114 hospitalsNY$89Massachusetts: median $126 across 53 hospitalsMA$126Oregon: median $86 across 55 hospitalsOR$86Nevada: median $90 across 22 hospitalsNV$90Wyoming: median $98 across 16 hospitalsWY$98South Dakota: median $126 across 44 hospitalsSD$126Iowa: median $92 across 96 hospitalsIA$92Indiana: median $73 across 96 hospitalsIN$73Ohio: median $107 across 143 hospitalsOH$107Pennsylvania: median $85 across 122 hospitalsPA$85New Jersey: median $35 across 44 hospitalsNJ$35Connecticut: median $115 across 22 hospitalsCT$115Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $131 across 194 hospitalsCA$131Utah: median $93 across 40 hospitalsUT$93Colorado: median $88 across 74 hospitalsCO$88Nebraska: median $96 across 81 hospitalsNE$96Missouri: median $81 across 82 hospitalsMO$81Kentucky: median $89 across 68 hospitalsKY$89West Virginia: median $64 across 41 hospitalsWV$64Virginia: median $88 across 73 hospitalsVA$88Maryland: median $71 across 42 hospitalsMD$71Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $56 across 54 hospitalsAZ$56New Mexico: median $92 across 31 hospitalsNM$92Kansas: median $71 across 94 hospitalsKS$71Arkansas: median $44 across 33 hospitalsAR$44Tennessee: median $43 across 81 hospitalsTN$43North Carolina: median $98 across 95 hospitalsNC$98South Carolina: median $140 across 53 hospitalsSC$140Oklahoma: median $55 across 68 hospitalsOK$55Louisiana: median $39 across 52 hospitalsLA$39Mississippi: median $52 across 58 hospitalsMS$52Alabama: median $74 across 42 hospitalsAL$74Georgia: median $98 across 111 hospitalsGA$98Hawaii: median $125 across 20 hospitalsHI$125Texas: median $115 across 242 hospitalsTX$115Florida: median $174 across 163 hospitalsFL$174
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $93. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL163$174+87%$68 – $384
Alaska AK19$172+85%$115 – $210
South Carolina SC53$140+50%$88 – $185
California CA194$131+40%$76 – $219
Massachusetts MA53$126+36%$98 – $179
South Dakota SD44$126+36%$86 – $162
Hawaii HI20$125+35%$79 – $156
Illinois IL142$119+28%$81 – $195
Texas TX242$115+24%$58 – $178
Connecticut CT22$115+24%$48 – $140
Ohio OH143$107+15%$73 – $143
North Dakota ND31$106+14%$82 – $120
Vermont VT14$105+13%$71 – $159
North Carolina NC95$98+6%$59 – $128
Wyoming WY16$98+6%$75 – $122
Georgia GA111$98+5%$37 – $160
Nebraska NE81$96+3%$64 – $116
Utah UT40$930%$83 – $117
Wisconsin WI106$930%$77 – $123
Iowa IA96$92−1%$66 – $123
New Mexico NM31$92−1%$70 – $127
Minnesota MN107$92−1%$66 – $123
Michigan MI97$90−3%$53 – $148
Nevada NV22$90−4%$44 – $129
New York NY114$89−4%$38 – $158
Kentucky KY68$89−5%$63 – $184
Colorado CO74$88−5%$60 – $126
Virginia VA73$88−5%$58 – $141
New Hampshire NH24$87−7%$52 – $193
Oregon OR55$86−7%$62 – $118
Pennsylvania PA122$85−8%$50 – $148
Maine ME28$81−13%$47 – $140
Missouri MO82$81−13%$47 – $115
Washington WA77$81−14%$53 – $120
Montana MT35$78−16%$59 – $99
Alabama AL42$74−21%$38 – $122
Indiana IN96$73−22%$37 – $107
Kansas KS94$71−23%$56 – $95
Maryland MD42$71−24%$50 – $90
Idaho ID25$68−27%$61 – $93
West Virginia WV41$64−32%$49 – $116
Arizona AZ54$56−40%$26 – $310
Oklahoma OK68$55−41%$45 – $110
Mississippi MS58$52−44%$34 – $89
Arkansas AR33$44−52%$34 – $69
Tennessee TN81$43−54%$29 – $86
Louisiana LA52$39−58%$30 – $73
New Jersey NJ44$35−62%$34 – $152
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $93.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,368$93$49 – $157
Children’s68$116$68 – $180
Critical access994$92$62 – $129
Ownership
For-profit471$115$54 – $305
Government651$88$50 – $125
Non-profit2,308$92$53 – $140
System affiliation
Part of a system2,786$96$54 – $150
Independent654$85$49 – $130

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$153
Median cash price$93
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

2,350 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $95 and the average of the middle 60% is $97; most fall between $55 and $145.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,350 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
$39$62$95$134$193

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($39 vs $193).

Of the 2,497 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,350 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 116 a list price only.

How complete is this

3,440 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (87%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,640 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted3,440
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded152
Hospitals that filed this code3,640

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 Manual Therapy Tqs 1/> Regions Each 15 Minutes.

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, “Hands-on manual therapy, 15 minutes (CPT 97140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97140-hands-on-manual-therapy-15-minutes