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Extra Time For Light Therapy Through A Scope

Missouri 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?

$34.67

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $34.67 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $30.90 from a physician practice, and about $2,512 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 6 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$26.30 to $40.74
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,512$525 to $5,248

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,512 · 10th to 90th $31 to $7,413Professionalmedian $31 · 10th to 90th $23 to $65
$20$100$500$2Kfacility $2,512professional $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
$30.90
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$2,511.89
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$50.12
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$43.65
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$63.10
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$1,258.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$407.38
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,778.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$56.23

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 25th of 51

$34.67

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.