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Low-frequency ultrasound mist wound treatment, per day

CPT 97610the billing code this page is about

Wound cleaning and treatment with a low-frequency ultrasound mist that does not touch the wound, including topical applications and dressing care. Covers one day of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $265 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 873 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $297. Most fall between $146 and $543 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
873
States
48
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 873 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
$71$175$265$470$711

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($71 vs $711).

How the prices are spread

$41 – $55: 19 hospitals$41$55 – $74: 35 hospitals$74 – $100: 27 hospitals$74$100 – $136: 30 hospitals$136 – $183: 91 hospitals$136$183 – $248: 138 hospitals$248 – $335: 141 hospitals$248$335 – $453: 113 hospitals$453 – $613: 124 hospitals$453$613 – $828: 70 hospitals$613median $265price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (788 of 873 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$41$5519
$55$7435
$74$10027
$100$13630
$136$18391
$183$248138
$248$335141
$335$453113
$453$613124
$613$82870

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$265
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.29×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $265.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 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 $246 across 23 hospitalsWA$246Idaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $213 across 36 hospitalsMN$213Illinois: median $263 across 38 hospitalsIL$263Wisconsin: median $172 across 30 hospitalsWI$172Michigan: median $187 across 35 hospitalsMI$187New York: median $235 across 28 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: median $392 across 11 hospitalsMA$392Oregon: median $237 across 23 hospitalsOR$237Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $728 across 20 hospitalsIA$728Indiana: median $128 across 43 hospitalsIN$128Ohio: median $555 across 42 hospitalsOH$555Pennsylvania: median $309 across 44 hospitalsPA$309New Jersey: median $220 across 40 hospitalsNJ$220Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $470 across 82 hospitalsCA$470Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $257 across 25 hospitalsCO$257Nebraska: median $265 across 11 hospitalsNE$265Missouri: median $239 across 13 hospitalsMO$239Kentucky: median $255 across 27 hospitalsKY$255West Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $509 across 25 hospitalsVA$509Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $54 across 15 hospitalsAZ$54New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $363 across 18 hospitalsSC$363Oklahoma: median $30 across 22 hospitalsOK$30Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $184 across 10 hospitalsMS$184Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $272 across 18 hospitalsGA$272Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $350 across 72 hospitalsTX$350Florida: median $433 across 20 hospitalsFL$433
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $265. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Iowa IA20$728+174%$115 – $728
Ohio OH42$555+109%$351 – $594
Virginia VA25$509+92%$282 – $546
California CA82$470+77%$256 – $699
Florida FL20$433+63%$157 – $743
Massachusetts MA11$392+48%$288 – $597
South Carolina SC18$363+37%$323 – $522
Texas TX72$350+32%$198 – $599
Pennsylvania PA44$309+16%$205 – $705
Georgia GA18$272+3%$272 – $769
Nebraska NE11$2650%$176 – $314
Illinois IL38$263−1%$138 – $419
Colorado CO25$257−3%$221 – $407
Kentucky KY27$255−4%$188 – $478
Washington WA23$246−7%$131 – $307
Missouri MO13$239−10%$61 – $789
Oregon OR23$237−11%$180 – $547
New York NY28$235−11%$235 – $430
New Jersey NJ40$220−17%$107 – $265
Minnesota MN36$213−20%$71 – $301
Michigan MI35$187−30%$19 – $578
Mississippi MS10$184−31%$60 – $255
Wisconsin WI30$172−35%$172 – $283
Indiana IN43$128−52%$75 – $257
Arizona AZ15$54−80%$31 – $191
Oklahoma OK22$30−89%$30 – $194
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $265.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care718$268$148 – $546
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access137$224$134 – $419
Ownership
For-profit100$365$218 – $789
Government119$235$110 – $412
Non-profit652$263$142 – $509
System affiliation
Part of a system772$265$149 – $546
Independent101$261$134 – $478

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$560
Median cash price$265
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

619 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $278 and the average of the middle 60% is $312; most fall between $172 and $546.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 619 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
$91$180$278$470$647

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($91 vs $647).

Of the 648 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 619 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

873 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 914 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted873
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded23
Hospitals that filed this code914

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 diagnostic ultrasound or optical coherence tomography (OCT) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Low Frequency Non-Thermal Ultrasound per Day.

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, “Low-frequency ultrasound mist wound treatment, per day (CPT 97610) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97610-low-frequency-ultrasound-mist-wound-treatment-per-day