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Extra Time For Light Therapy Through A Scope

Alabama rates for HCPCS 96571

Covers additional treatment time when light is delivered through a scope to destroy abnormal tissue that has been made sensitive to light by a drug given beforehand. It is added on top of the main treatment session when more time is needed to cover the area. The light itself does not burn or cut; it activates the drug that has collected in the abnormal tissue.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Extra Time For Light Therapy Through A Scope cost?

$30.90

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $30.90 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $30.90 from a physician practice, and about $398 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$30.90$24.55 to $30.90
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$398$288 to $1,096

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $398 · 10th to 90th $251 to $1,622Professionalmedian $31 · 10th to 90th $23 to $37
$20$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $398professional $31

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$30.90
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$33.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$43.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,584.89
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$40.74

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 123.0 times more in California than in Washington, DC. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Alabama· 35th of 51

$30.90

CA $2,818DC $22.91

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.