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Procedure price report · Other physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation

Sensory processing therapy, each 15 minutes

CPT 97533the billing code this page is about

One-on-one therapy that helps a person respond better to touch, movement, and other sensory input in daily activities; each unit covers 15 minutes.

Hospitals typically charge $89 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,497 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $94. Most fall between $56 and $147 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,497
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 2,497 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
$41$62$89$134$197

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $197).

How the prices are spread

$30 – $37: 75 hospitals$30$37 – $46: 133 hospitals$46 – $58: 201 hospitals$46$58 – $72: 318 hospitals$72 – $90: 431 hospitals$72$90 – $113: 348 hospitals$113 – $140: 340 hospitals$113$140 – $175: 205 hospitals$175 – $219: 106 hospitals$175$219 – $273: 92 hospitals$219median $89price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,249 of 2,497 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$30$3775
$37$46133
$46$58201
$58$72318
$72$90431
$90$113348
$113$140340
$140$175205
$175$219106
$219$27392

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $89.

Alaska: median $125 across 17 hospitalsAK$125Maine: median $75 across 26 hospitalsME$75Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $63 across 15 hospitalsNH$63Washington: median $80 across 54 hospitalsWA$80Idaho: median $85 across 21 hospitalsID$85Montana: median $90 across 20 hospitalsMT$90North Dakota: median $85 across 16 hospitalsND$85Minnesota: median $91 across 66 hospitalsMN$91Illinois: median $109 across 118 hospitalsIL$109Wisconsin: median $95 across 86 hospitalsWI$95Michigan: median $98 across 70 hospitalsMI$98New York: median $87 across 78 hospitalsNY$87Massachusetts: median $138 across 25 hospitalsMA$138Oregon: median $112 across 43 hospitalsOR$112Nevada: median $116 across 17 hospitalsNV$116Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $101 across 19 hospitalsSD$101Iowa: median $86 across 57 hospitalsIA$86Indiana: median $80 across 80 hospitalsIN$80Ohio: median $106 across 127 hospitalsOH$106Pennsylvania: median $117 across 102 hospitalsPA$117New Jersey: median $81 across 39 hospitalsNJ$81Connecticut: median $134 across 13 hospitalsCT$134Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $121 across 129 hospitalsCA$121Utah: median $88 across 33 hospitalsUT$88Colorado: median $89 across 60 hospitalsCO$89Nebraska: median $80 across 43 hospitalsNE$80Missouri: median $77 across 54 hospitalsMO$77Kentucky: median $94 across 53 hospitalsKY$94West Virginia: median $74 across 24 hospitalsWV$74Virginia: median $80 across 51 hospitalsVA$80Maryland: median $210 across 37 hospitalsMD$210Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $47 across 38 hospitalsAZ$47New Mexico: median $82 across 19 hospitalsNM$82Kansas: median $71 across 52 hospitalsKS$71Arkansas: median $62 across 20 hospitalsAR$62Tennessee: median $42 across 59 hospitalsTN$42North Carolina: median $65 across 72 hospitalsNC$65South Carolina: median $85 across 46 hospitalsSC$85Oklahoma: median $64 across 59 hospitalsOK$64Louisiana: median $34 across 41 hospitalsLA$34Mississippi: median $53 across 49 hospitalsMS$53Alabama: median $55 across 32 hospitalsAL$55Georgia: median $68 across 69 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: median $136 across 16 hospitalsHI$136Texas: median $115 across 178 hospitalsTX$115Florida: median $121 across 124 hospitalsFL$121
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $89. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD37$210+136%$138 – $298
Massachusetts MA25$138+55%$70 – $180
Hawaii HI16$136+52%$107 – $159
Connecticut CT13$134+51%$89 – $251
Alaska AK17$125+41%$78 – $202
Florida FL124$121+36%$85 – $265
California CA129$121+36%$81 – $164
Pennsylvania PA102$117+31%$70 – $250
Nevada NV17$116+30%$60 – $237
Texas TX178$115+29%$64 – $188
Oregon OR43$112+26%$76 – $155
Illinois IL118$109+22%$76 – $154
Ohio OH127$106+19%$65 – $129
South Dakota SD19$101+13%$87 – $130
Michigan MI70$98+10%$72 – $134
Wisconsin WI86$95+7%$71 – $138
Kentucky KY53$94+5%$54 – $165
Minnesota MN66$91+2%$80 – $111
Montana MT20$90+1%$54 – $102
Colorado CO60$890%$70 – $140
Utah UT33$88−1%$87 – $94
New York NY78$87−2%$65 – $194
Iowa IA57$86−4%$62 – $119
South Carolina SC46$85−4%$73 – $99
Idaho ID21$85−4%$59 – $149
North Dakota ND16$85−4%$81 – $152
New Mexico NM19$82−8%$66 – $113
New Jersey NJ39$81−9%$68 – $190
Virginia VA51$80−10%$51 – $102
Washington WA54$80−10%$49 – $128
Indiana IN80$80−10%$40 – $94
Nebraska NE43$80−10%$49 – $121
Missouri MO54$77−14%$54 – $103
Maine ME26$75−16%$41 – $142
West Virginia WV24$74−17%$51 – $144
Kansas KS52$71−20%$56 – $106
Georgia GA69$68−24%$47 – $164
North Carolina NC72$65−27%$50 – $90
Oklahoma OK59$64−28%$40 – $120
New Hampshire NH15$63−29%$27 – $124
Arkansas AR20$62−30%$43 – $95
Alabama AL32$55−38%$43 – $111
Mississippi MS49$53−41%$37 – $68
Arizona AZ38$47−47%$22 – $231
Tennessee TN59$42−53%$28 – $75
Louisiana LA41$34−62%$23 – $54
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $89.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,823$89$53 – $151
Children’s48$134$84 – $165
Critical access619$90$62 – $131
Ownership
For-profit308$112$58 – $269
Government448$83$55 – $129
Non-profit1,734$89$56 – $139
System affiliation
Part of a system2,059$90$56 – $147
Independent438$85$56 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$153
Median cash price$89
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

1,729 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $91 and the average of the middle 60% is $95; most fall between $56 and $139.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,729 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
$40$64$91$131$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($40 vs $184).

Of the 1,829 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,729 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,497 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,635 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,497
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 — excluded107
Hospitals that filed this code2,635

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 Other physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Sensory Integrative Techniques 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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Sensory processing therapy, each 15 minutes (CPT 97533) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97533-sensory-processing-therapy-each-15-minutes