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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes

CPT 90832the billing code this page is about

One individual talk therapy session lasting roughly 30 minutes (16 to 37 minutes); each session is billed separately.

Hospitals typically charge $152 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,982 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $156. Most fall between $81 and $277 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,982
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,982 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$61$93$152$230$397

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($61 vs $397).

How the prices are spread

$44 – $56: 76 hospitals$44$56 – $72: 124 hospitals$72 – $92: 185 hospitals$72$92 – $118: 257 hospitals$118 – $151: 249 hospitals$118$151 – $193: 298 hospitals$193 – $246: 251 hospitals$193$246 – $315: 162 hospitals$315 – $403: 95 hospitals$315$403 – $515: 92 hospitals$403median $152price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,789 of 1,982 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$44$5676
$56$72124
$72$92185
$92$118257
$118$151249
$151$193298
$193$246251
$246$315162
$315$40395
$403$51592

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$181
Median cash price$152
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $152.

Alaska: median $123 across 12 hospitalsAK$123Maine: median $114 across 19 hospitalsME$114Vermont: median $113 across 10 hospitalsVT$113New Hampshire: median $81 across 16 hospitalsNH$81Washington: median $157 across 49 hospitalsWA$157Idaho: median $135 across 13 hospitalsID$135Montana: median $102 across 22 hospitalsMT$102North Dakota: median $193 across 16 hospitalsND$193Minnesota: median $100 across 69 hospitalsMN$100Illinois: median $160 across 86 hospitalsIL$160Wisconsin: median $106 across 71 hospitalsWI$106Michigan: median $142 across 75 hospitalsMI$142New York: median $199 across 104 hospitalsNY$199Massachusetts: median $232 across 42 hospitalsMA$232Oregon: median $119 across 41 hospitalsOR$119Nevada: median $272 across 13 hospitalsNV$272Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $175 across 14 hospitalsSD$175Iowa: median $145 across 68 hospitalsIA$145Indiana: median $90 across 63 hospitalsIN$90Ohio: median $181 across 86 hospitalsOH$181Pennsylvania: median $181 across 69 hospitalsPA$181New Jersey: median $189 across 48 hospitalsNJ$189Connecticut: median $163 across 22 hospitalsCT$163Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $270 across 118 hospitalsCA$270Utah: median $119 across 28 hospitalsUT$119Colorado: median $138 across 31 hospitalsCO$138Nebraska: median $150 across 47 hospitalsNE$150Missouri: median $128 across 39 hospitalsMO$128Kentucky: median $116 across 36 hospitalsKY$116West Virginia: median $108 across 29 hospitalsWV$108Virginia: median $151 across 44 hospitalsVA$151Maryland: median $163 across 26 hospitalsMD$163Delaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $162 across 15 hospitalsAZ$162New Mexico: median $133 across 12 hospitalsNM$133Kansas: median $113 across 42 hospitalsKS$113Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $45 across 30 hospitalsTN$45North Carolina: median $92 across 44 hospitalsNC$92South Carolina: median $237 across 33 hospitalsSC$237Oklahoma: median $170 across 32 hospitalsOK$170Louisiana: median $81 across 30 hospitalsLA$81Mississippi: median $77 across 40 hospitalsMS$77Alabama: median $118 across 14 hospitalsAL$118Georgia: median $308 across 41 hospitalsGA$308Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $189 across 114 hospitalsTX$189Florida: median $210 across 74 hospitalsFL$210
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $152. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA41$308+103%$77 – $408
Nevada NV13$272+79%$135 – $588
California CA118$270+78%$125 – $438
South Carolina SC33$237+56%$129 – $279
Massachusetts MA42$232+53%$139 – $432
Florida FL74$210+38%$122 – $626
New York NY104$199+31%$123 – $349
North Dakota ND16$193+27%$149 – $488
New Jersey NJ48$189+25%$96 – $230
Texas TX114$189+25%$91 – $244
Ohio OH86$181+19%$132 – $313
Pennsylvania PA69$181+19%$55 – $249
South Dakota SD14$175+15%$128 – $198
Oklahoma OK32$170+12%$119 – $285
Connecticut CT22$163+7%$112 – $317
Maryland MD26$163+7%$117 – $307
Arizona AZ15$162+7%$116 – $318
Illinois IL86$160+5%$106 – $216
Washington WA49$157+3%$97 – $200
Virginia VA44$151−1%$88 – $252
Nebraska NE47$150−1%$100 – $291
Iowa IA68$145−5%$86 – $397
Michigan MI75$142−7%$63 – $228
Colorado CO31$138−9%$77 – $213
Idaho ID13$135−11%$106 – $466
New Mexico NM12$133−12%$70 – $229
Missouri MO39$128−16%$83 – $186
Alaska AK12$123−19%$85 – $211
Utah UT28$119−22%$95 – $139
Oregon OR41$119−22%$70 – $189
Alabama AL14$118−22%$77 – $218
Kentucky KY36$116−24%$70 – $312
Maine ME19$114−25%$47 – $186
Kansas KS42$113−26%$75 – $211
Vermont VT10$113−26%$90 – $180
West Virginia WV29$108−29%$79 – $172
Wisconsin WI71$106−30%$77 – $185
Montana MT22$102−33%$62 – $136
Minnesota MN69$100−34%$69 – $165
North Carolina NC44$92−39%$81 – $144
Indiana IN63$90−41%$56 – $195
New Hampshire NH16$81−47%$66 – $130
Louisiana LA30$81−47%$38 – $159
Mississippi MS40$77−49%$59 – $117
Tennessee TN30$45−70%$43 – $189
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $152.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,360$162$82 – $292
Children’s42$135$95 – $244
Critical access575$132$77 – $230
Ownership
For-profit151$200$95 – $443
Government388$130$81 – $219
Non-profit1,438$153$79 – $268
System affiliation
Part of a system1,619$157$81 – $295
Independent363$135$82 – $219

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$234
Median cash price$152
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,346 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $160 and the average of the middle 60% is $162; most fall between $88 and $283.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,346 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$68$98$160$236$401

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($68 vs $401).

Of the 1,417 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,346 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,982 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (50%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,085 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,982
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded68
Hospitals that filed this code2,085

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Psychotherapy W/Patient 30 Minutes.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Psychotherapy session, about 30 minutes (CPT 90832) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90832-psychotherapy-session-about-30-minutes