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

Acupuncture with electrical stimulation, first 15 minutes

CPT 97813the billing code this page is about

Insertion of one or more acupuncture needles with electrical stimulation applied. Covers the first 15 minutes of one-on-one time with the practitioner.

Hospitals typically charge $54 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 586 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $58. Most fall between $30 and $96 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
586
States
47
Filings dated
Jan 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 586 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
$24$34$54$85$118

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $118).

How the prices are spread

$20 – $25: 41 hospitals$20$25 – $30: 51 hospitals$30 – $37: 52 hospitals$30$37 – $45: 64 hospitals$45 – $55: 57 hospitals$45$55 – $67: 47 hospitals$67 – $82: 87 hospitals$67$82 – $100: 58 hospitals$100 – $123: 46 hospitals$100$123 – $150: 31 hospitals$123median $54price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (534 of 586 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$20$2541
$25$3051
$30$3752
$37$4564
$45$5557
$55$6747
$67$8287
$82$10058
$100$12346
$123$15031

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$54
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.84×

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 $54.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $66 across 17 hospitalsWA$66Idaho: 7 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 $92 across 33 hospitalsMN$92Illinois: median $57 across 17 hospitalsIL$57Wisconsin: median $63 across 41 hospitalsWI$63Michigan: median $40 across 17 hospitalsMI$40New York: median $34 across 34 hospitalsNY$34Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $67 across 18 hospitalsOR$67Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $98 across 18 hospitalsIA$98Indiana: median $31 across 20 hospitalsIN$31Ohio: median $43 across 39 hospitalsOH$43Pennsylvania: median $24 across 18 hospitalsPA$24New Jersey: median $27 across 13 hospitalsNJ$27Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $79 across 51 hospitalsCA$79Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $48 across 26 hospitalsCO$48Nebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $40 across 15 hospitalsWV$40Virginia: median $101 across 16 hospitalsVA$101Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $78 across 12 hospitalsOK$78Louisiana: median $22 across 14 hospitalsLA$22Mississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $56 across 17 hospitalsGA$56Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $69 across 37 hospitalsTX$69Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $54. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA16$101+85%$30 – $108
Iowa IA18$98+80%$81 – $98
Minnesota MN33$92+70%$77 – $108
California CA51$79+45%$75 – $150
Oklahoma OK12$78+44%$78 – $78
Texas TX37$69+27%$39 – $83
Oregon OR18$67+24%$41 – $68
Washington WA17$66+22%$33 – $88
Wisconsin WI41$63+16%$33 – $105
Illinois IL17$57+4%$30 – $80
Georgia GA17$56+3%$56 – $72
Colorado CO26$48−12%$46 – $131
Ohio OH39$43−21%$21 – $54
West Virginia WV15$40−26%$38 – $43
Michigan MI17$40−27%$25 – $105
New York NY34$34−37%$29 – $82
Indiana IN20$31−43%$26 – $47
New Jersey NJ13$27−50%$27 – $49
Pennsylvania PA18$24−56%$19 – $37
Louisiana LA14$22−60%$14 – $39
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $54.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care460$52$29 – $92
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access107$62$38 – $105
Ownership
For-profit34$46$35 – $83
Government87$56$31 – $88
Non-profit461$53$30 – $98
System affiliation
Part of a system500$49$29 – $95
Independent86$65$38 – $102

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$105
Median cash price$54
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

415 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $66 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $36 and $98.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 415 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
$24$39$66$92$111

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $111).

Of the 438 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 415 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

586 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 617 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted586
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code617

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 Physical, occupational, and speech therapy exercises; manipulation; and other procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Acupuncture 1/> Ndls W/Estim 1st 15 Min.

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, “Acupuncture with electrical stimulation, first 15 minutes (CPT 97813) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97813-acupuncture-with-electrical-stimulation-first-15-minutes