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

Work conditioning or hardening, each extra hour

CPT 97546the billing code this page is about

Each additional hour of a supervised return-to-work conditioning program on the same day, billed in addition to the first two hours.

Hospitals typically charge $113 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,320 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $120. Most fall between $61 and $209 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,320
States
49
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 1,320 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$68$113$182$309

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $309).

How the prices are spread

$34 – $43: 74 hospitals$34$43 – $55: 93 hospitals$55 – $70: 113 hospitals$55$70 – $89: 125 hospitals$89 – $114: 192 hospitals$89$114 – $145: 172 hospitals$145 – $185: 165 hospitals$145$185 – $237: 115 hospitals$237 – $302: 62 hospitals$237$302 – $385: 78 hospitals$302median $113price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,189 of 1,320 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$34$4374
$43$5593
$55$70113
$70$89125
$89$114192
$114$145172
$145$185165
$185$237115
$237$30262
$302$38578

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $113.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $97 across 13 hospitalsWA$97Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $99 across 11 hospitalsND$99Minnesota: median $157 across 39 hospitalsMN$157Illinois: median $110 across 83 hospitalsIL$110Wisconsin: median $135 across 60 hospitalsWI$135Michigan: median $177 across 33 hospitalsMI$177New York: median $80 across 21 hospitalsNY$80Massachusetts: median $145 across 13 hospitalsMA$145Oregon: median $123 across 18 hospitalsOR$123Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $99 across 41 hospitalsIA$99Indiana: median $82 across 61 hospitalsIN$82Ohio: median $126 across 82 hospitalsOH$126Pennsylvania: median $118 across 42 hospitalsPA$118New Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $160 across 71 hospitalsCA$160Utah: median $134 across 26 hospitalsUT$134Colorado: median $117 across 37 hospitalsCO$117Nebraska: median $101 across 30 hospitalsNE$101Missouri: median $83 across 43 hospitalsMO$83Kentucky: median $101 across 41 hospitalsKY$101West Virginia: median $98 across 13 hospitalsWV$98Virginia: median $96 across 26 hospitalsVA$96Maryland: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $59 across 20 hospitalsAZ$59New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $94 across 47 hospitalsKS$94Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $50 across 55 hospitalsTN$50North Carolina: median $130 across 39 hospitalsNC$130South Carolina: median $125 across 19 hospitalsSC$125Oklahoma: median $63 across 28 hospitalsOK$63Louisiana: median $62 across 12 hospitalsLA$62Mississippi: median $77 across 31 hospitalsMS$77Alabama: median $76 across 19 hospitalsAL$76Georgia: median $65 across 40 hospitalsGA$65Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $227 across 68 hospitalsTX$227Florida: median $162 across 35 hospitalsFL$162
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $113. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX68$227+100%$42 – $386
Michigan MI33$177+56%$95 – $282
Florida FL35$162+43%$14 – $409
California CA71$160+41%$137 – $337
Minnesota MN39$157+38%$121 – $240
Massachusetts MA13$145+28%$114 – $337
Wisconsin WI60$135+19%$104 – $179
Utah UT26$134+19%$134 – $179
North Carolina NC39$130+14%$56 – $214
Ohio OH82$126+11%$81 – $240
South Carolina SC19$125+10%$83 – $178
Oregon OR18$123+9%$101 – $224
Pennsylvania PA42$118+4%$71 – $295
Colorado CO37$117+3%$63 – $215
Illinois IL83$110−3%$77 – $192
Nebraska NE30$101−11%$53 – $143
Kentucky KY41$101−11%$61 – $136
Iowa IA41$99−13%$68 – $135
North Dakota ND11$99−13%$81 – $151
West Virginia WV13$98−14%$68 – $139
Washington WA13$97−14%$65 – $158
Virginia VA26$96−16%$50 – $111
Kansas KS47$94−17%$65 – $153
Missouri MO43$83−26%$53 – $188
Indiana IN61$82−27%$49 – $162
New York NY21$80−29%$57 – $231
Mississippi MS31$77−33%$33 – $98
Alabama AL19$76−33%$56 – $181
Georgia GA40$65−43%$49 – $118
Oklahoma OK28$63−44%$56 – $134
Louisiana LA12$62−45%$35 – $145
Arizona AZ20$59−48%$29 – $196
Tennessee TN55$50−56%$35 – $90
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not 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 $113.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care960$111$56 – $223
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access352$118$72 – $179
Ownership
For-profit155$131$59 – $379
Government230$107$56 – $162
Non-profit930$114$62 – $205
System affiliation
Part of a system1,081$118$61 – $220
Independent239$107$56 – $174

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$188
Median cash price$113
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

937 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $122 and the average of the middle 60% is $124; most fall between $59 and $213.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 937 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$68$122$185$305

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $305).

Of the 1,011 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 937 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,320 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (33%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,444 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,320
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
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 — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code1,444

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 97546 Work Cond Ea Add'l Hour.

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, each extra hour (CPT 97546) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97546-work-conditioning-or-hardening-each-extra-hour