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Extra Time For Light Therapy Through A Scope

Mississippi 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?

$33.11

Typical negotiated rate. In Mississippi, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $33.11 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $30.90 from a physician practice, and about $646 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 5 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 $43.65
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$646$407 to $1,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $646 · 10th to 90th $26 to $1,820Professionalmedian $31 · 10th to 90th $23 to $46
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $646professional $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
$26.30
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$45.71
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$37.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$37.15
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$45.71
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$1,513.56
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$46.77

Where Mississippi 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.

Mississippi· 29th of 51

$33.11

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.