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Extra Time For Light Therapy Through A Scope

New Jersey 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?

$30.20

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $30.20 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $26.92 from a physician practice, and about $6,026 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$26.92$23.99 to $37.15
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,026$4,365 to $9,772

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,026 · 10th to 90th $1,622 to $11,749Professionalmedian $27 · 10th to 90th $23 to $65
$100$1K$10Kfacility $6,026professional $27

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
$3,467.37
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$11,748.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$4,570.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$177.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$60.26
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$50.12
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$63.10
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$48.98

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 38th of 51

$30.20

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.