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Extra Time For Light Therapy Through A Scope

North Dakota 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?

$47.86

Typical negotiated rate. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $47.86 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $47.86 from a physician practice, and about $26.92 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$47.86$31.62 to $56.23
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$26.92$26.30 to $32.36

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $27 · 10th to 90th $26 to $8,511Professionalmedian $48 · 10th to 90th $26 to $63
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $27professional $48

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
$26.30
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$26.92
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$63.10
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$74.13
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$77.62
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$56.23
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,041.74
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$63.10

Where North Dakota 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.

North Dakota· 11th of 51

$47.86

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.