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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Meeting with family to explain a patient's condition

CPT 90887the billing code this page is about

Time spent explaining the results of exams and tests and the treatment plan to family members or others responsible for the patient's care.

Hospitals typically charge $134 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 433 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $132. Most fall between $73 and $206 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
433
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 433 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
$47$81$134$186$255

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $255).

How the prices are spread

$32 – $40: 16 hospitals$32$40 – $51: 23 hospitals$51 – $65: 17 hospitals$51$65 – $83: 41 hospitals$83 – $106: 46 hospitals$83$106 – $134: 60 hospitals$134 – $171: 89 hospitals$134$171 – $218: 51 hospitals$218 – $277: 42 hospitals$218$277 – $352: 12 hospitals$277median $134price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (397 of 433 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$32$4016
$40$5123
$51$6517
$65$8341
$83$10646
$106$13460
$134$17189
$171$21851
$218$27742
$277$35212

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $134.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $171 across 17 hospitalsIL$171Wisconsin: median $239 across 35 hospitalsWI$239Michigan: median $126 across 14 hospitalsMI$126New York: median $135 across 15 hospitalsNY$135Massachusetts: median $107 across 16 hospitalsMA$107Oregon: median $179 across 15 hospitalsOR$179Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $195 across 14 hospitalsIA$195Indiana: median $85 across 11 hospitalsIN$85Ohio: median $102 across 16 hospitalsOH$102Pennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $356 across 11 hospitalsNJ$356Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $142 across 56 hospitalsCA$142Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $167 across 13 hospitalsNE$167Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $32 across 13 hospitalsKY$32West Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $109 across 19 hospitalsNC$109South Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $143 across 11 hospitalsOK$143Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $121 across 39 hospitalsTX$121Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $134. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ11$356+166%$83 – $356
Wisconsin WI35$239+79%$129 – $239
Iowa IA14$195+46%$177 – $195
Oregon OR15$179+33%$70 – $222
Illinois IL17$171+28%$85 – $245
Nebraska NE13$167+24%$115 – $177
Oklahoma OK11$143+7%$143 – $143
California CA56$142+6%$140 – $206
New York NY15$135+1%$61 – $308
Michigan MI14$126−6%$47 – $239
Texas TX39$121−10%$76 – $136
North Carolina NC19$109−19%$73 – $114
Massachusetts MA16$107−21%$97 – $170
Ohio OH16$102−24%$44 – $174
Indiana IN11$85−37%$68 – $114
Kentucky KY13$32−76%$32 – $85
Minnesota MN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $134.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care333$134$68 – $195
Children’s21$113$80 – $291
Critical access77$155$91 – $239
Ownership
For-profit28$114$76 – $143
Government70$109$53 – $175
Non-profit333$136$76 – $206
System affiliation
Part of a system361$129$71 – $200
Independent72$143$88 – $270

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$213
Median cash price$134
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

330 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $136 and the average of the middle 60% is $128; most fall between $76 and $200.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 330 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
$58$85$136$184$239

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($58 vs $239).

Of the 348 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 330 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

433 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 484 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted433
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code484

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 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 CONSULTATION WITH FAMILY.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Meeting with family to explain a patient's condition (CPT 90887) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-90887-meeting-with-family-to-explain-a-patient-s-condition