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

Work conditioning or hardening, first 2 hours

CPT 97545the billing code this page is about

A supervised program of job-related physical activity to prepare a person to return to work; this code covers the first two hours in one day.

Hospitals typically charge $248 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,502 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $259. Most fall between $129 and $435 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,502
States
50
Filings dated
Feb 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 1,502 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
$86$153$248$395$608

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $608).

How the prices are spread

$62 – $79: 52 hospitals$62$79 – $102: 79 hospitals$102 – $130: 101 hospitals$102$130 – $168: 131 hospitals$168 – $215: 206 hospitals$168$215 – $276: 198 hospitals$276 – $355: 192 hospitals$276$355 – $456: 186 hospitals$456 – $586: 115 hospitals$456$586 – $752: 92 hospitals$586median $248price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,352 of 1,502 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$62$7952
$79$10279
$102$130101
$130$168131
$168$215206
$215$276198
$276$355192
$355$456186
$456$586115
$586$75292

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $248.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $171 across 10 hospitalsME$171Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $200 across 14 hospitalsWA$200Idaho: median $299 across 15 hospitalsID$299Montana: median $241 across 11 hospitalsMT$241North Dakota: median $254 across 15 hospitalsND$254Minnesota: median $332 across 58 hospitalsMN$332Illinois: median $321 across 87 hospitalsIL$321Wisconsin: median $296 across 69 hospitalsWI$296Michigan: median $378 across 41 hospitalsMI$378New York: median $259 across 26 hospitalsNY$259Massachusetts: median $346 across 15 hospitalsMA$346Oregon: median $252 across 21 hospitalsOR$252Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $218 across 48 hospitalsIA$218Indiana: median $180 across 65 hospitalsIN$180Ohio: median $239 across 87 hospitalsOH$239Pennsylvania: median $235 across 43 hospitalsPA$235New Jersey: median $382 across 14 hospitalsNJ$382Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $318 across 73 hospitalsCA$318Utah: median $283 across 28 hospitalsUT$283Colorado: median $193 across 40 hospitalsCO$193Nebraska: median $198 across 34 hospitalsNE$198Missouri: median $184 across 44 hospitalsMO$184Kentucky: median $179 across 45 hospitalsKY$179West Virginia: median $177 across 16 hospitalsWV$177Virginia: median $254 across 28 hospitalsVA$254Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $114 across 22 hospitalsAZ$114New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $185 across 53 hospitalsKS$185Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $121 across 57 hospitalsTN$121North Carolina: median $254 across 37 hospitalsNC$254South Carolina: median $276 across 23 hospitalsSC$276Oklahoma: median $169 across 31 hospitalsOK$169Louisiana: median $170 across 14 hospitalsLA$170Mississippi: median $98 across 32 hospitalsMS$98Alabama: median $149 across 20 hospitalsAL$149Georgia: median $165 across 46 hospitalsGA$165Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $292 across 84 hospitalsTX$292Florida: median $275 across 54 hospitalsFL$275
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $248. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$382+54%$87 – $1,364
Michigan MI41$378+52%$224 – $485
Massachusetts MA15$346+39%$214 – $647
Minnesota MN58$332+34%$245 – $407
Illinois IL87$321+29%$161 – $699
California CA73$318+28%$249 – $512
Idaho ID15$299+20%$88 – $526
Wisconsin WI69$296+19%$246 – $428
Texas TX84$292+18%$102 – $666
Utah UT28$283+14%$257 – $378
South Carolina SC23$276+11%$187 – $296
Florida FL54$275+11%$86 – $725
New York NY26$259+4%$174 – $506
North Dakota ND15$254+2%$181 – $324
North Carolina NC37$254+2%$88 – $556
Virginia VA28$254+2%$125 – $339
Oregon OR21$252+2%$201 – $452
Montana MT11$241−3%$211 – $372
Ohio OH87$239−4%$153 – $530
Pennsylvania PA43$235−5%$141 – $503
Iowa IA48$218−12%$149 – $331
Washington WA14$200−20%$130 – $386
Nebraska NE34$198−20%$150 – $286
Colorado CO40$193−22%$97 – $430
Kansas KS53$185−25%$115 – $377
Missouri MO44$184−26%$101 – $436
Indiana IN65$180−27%$102 – $348
Kentucky KY45$179−28%$125 – $298
West Virginia WV16$177−29%$131 – $219
Maine ME10$171−31%$72 – $238
Louisiana LA14$170−32%$70 – $307
Oklahoma OK31$169−32%$94 – $261
Georgia GA46$165−33%$117 – $503
Alabama AL20$149−40%$100 – $339
Tennessee TN57$121−51%$68 – $185
Arizona AZ22$114−54%$59 – $396
Mississippi MS32$98−61%$81 – $198
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $248.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,072$252$125 – $456
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access420$245$146 – $401
Ownership
For-profit162$292$129 – $732
Government275$215$127 – $348
Non-profit1,060$254$129 – $436
System affiliation
Part of a system1,234$252$132 – $453
Independent268$226$107 – $390

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$426
Median cash price$248
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

1,085 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $261 and the average of the middle 60% is $271; most fall between $133 and $437.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,085 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
$87$158$261$407$586

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $586).

Of the 1,163 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,085 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 63 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,502 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (38%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,649 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,502
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded115
Hospitals that filed this code1,649

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 97545 Work Cond Initial 2 Hours.

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, “Work conditioning or hardening, first 2 hours (CPT 97545) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97545-work-conditioning-or-hardening-first-2-hours