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Neuropsychological testing by a psychologist, per hour

CPT 96118the billing code this page is about

Billed for each hour of a psychologist's or physician's time administering tests of memory, attention, language, and thinking skills, including scoring and interpretation. This code has since been replaced.

Hospitals typically charge $195 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 104 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $240. Most fall between $109 and $445 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
104
States
27
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Aug 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 104 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
$104$112$195$380$445

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($104 vs $445).

How the prices are spread

$79 – $100: 3 hospitals$79$100 – $127: 21 hospitals$127 – $160: 7 hospitals$127$160 – $203: 25 hospitals$203 – $257: 10 hospitals$203$257 – $325: 3 hospitals$325 – $412: 4 hospitals$325$412 – $521: 17 hospitals$521 – $659: 3 hospitals$521$659 – $834: 1 hospitals$659median $195price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (94 of 104 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$79$1003
$100$12721
$127$1607
$160$20325
$203$25710
$257$3253
$325$4124
$412$52117
$521$6593
$659$8341

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $195.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $445 across 19 hospitalsWI$445Michigan: median $184 across 10 hospitalsMI$184New York: median $174 across 10 hospitalsNY$174Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $215 across 14 hospitalsPA$215New Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $109 across 14 hospitalsOK$109Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $195. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI19$445+128%$198 – $445
Pennsylvania PA14$215+10%$182 – $222
Michigan MI10$184−6%$135 – $445
New York NY10$174−11%$102 – $502
Oklahoma OK14$109−44%$104 – $109
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not 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 $195.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care74$184$109 – $373
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access23$198$170 – $445
Ownership
For-profit5fewer than 20 hospitals
Government10fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit88$198$109 – $445
System affiliation
Part of a system85$195$109 – $445
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$354
Median cash price$195
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.

How complete is this

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

What the 113 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted104
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code113

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 5, 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Nuropsyc Testing PR Hr W/Pt & Interpj Time - Nfl.

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, “Neuropsychological testing by a psychologist, per hour (CPT 96118) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96118-neuropsychological-testing-by-a-psychologist-per-hour