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Extra Time For Light Therapy Through A Scope

Iowa 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?

$51.29

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $51.29 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $40.74 from a physician practice, and about $2,951 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 7 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$40.74$34.67 to $67.61
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,951$64.57 to $6,761

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,951 · 10th to 90th $35 to $7,943Professionalmedian $41 · 10th to 90th $26 to $135
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $2,951professional $41

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
$34.67
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$134.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$69.18
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$97.72
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$1,905.46
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$407.38
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$102.33
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$67.61
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$3,630.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$77.62
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$45.71

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 8th of 51

$51.29

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.