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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Standardized cognitive testing by a clinician, per hour

CPT 96125the billing code this page is about

Standardized testing of thinking skills such as attention, memory and problem solving, with interpretation and a written report; billed for each hour of the clinician's time.

Hospitals typically charge $256 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,534 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $260. Most fall between $140 and $414 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,534
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 2,534 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
$100$158$256$370$557

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($100 vs $557).

How the prices are spread

$70 – $88: 54 hospitals$70$88 – $111: 137 hospitals$111 – $140: 184 hospitals$111$140 – $176: 241 hospitals$176 – $221: 277 hospitals$176$221 – $278: 397 hospitals$278 – $349: 413 hospitals$278$349 – $440: 295 hospitals$440 – $553: 154 hospitals$440$553 – $696: 130 hospitals$553median $256price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,282 of 2,534 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$70$8854
$88$111137
$111$140184
$140$176241
$176$221277
$221$278397
$278$349413
$349$440295
$440$553154
$553$696130

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $256.

Alaska: median $543 across 19 hospitalsAK$543Maine: median $149 across 26 hospitalsME$149Vermont: median $375 across 12 hospitalsVT$375New Hampshire: median $220 across 22 hospitalsNH$220Washington: median $280 across 60 hospitalsWA$280Idaho: median $251 across 22 hospitalsID$251Montana: median $272 across 20 hospitalsMT$272North Dakota: median $344 across 17 hospitalsND$344Minnesota: median $257 across 97 hospitalsMN$257Illinois: median $280 across 99 hospitalsIL$280Wisconsin: median $304 across 80 hospitalsWI$304Michigan: median $234 across 70 hospitalsMI$234New York: median $210 across 77 hospitalsNY$210Massachusetts: median $317 across 42 hospitalsMA$317Oregon: median $257 across 51 hospitalsOR$257Nevada: median $259 across 16 hospitalsNV$259Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $314 across 34 hospitalsSD$314Iowa: median $265 across 80 hospitalsIA$265Indiana: median $199 across 76 hospitalsIN$199Ohio: median $279 across 120 hospitalsOH$279Pennsylvania: median $269 across 93 hospitalsPA$269New Jersey: median $130 across 38 hospitalsNJ$130Connecticut: median $432 across 18 hospitalsCT$432Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $304 across 124 hospitalsCA$304Utah: median $121 across 35 hospitalsUT$121Colorado: median $247 across 66 hospitalsCO$247Nebraska: median $247 across 53 hospitalsNE$247Missouri: median $222 across 61 hospitalsMO$222Kentucky: median $214 across 44 hospitalsKY$214West Virginia: median $219 across 22 hospitalsWV$219Virginia: median $345 across 45 hospitalsVA$345Maryland: median $227 across 31 hospitalsMD$227Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $211 across 41 hospitalsAZ$211New Mexico: median $234 across 20 hospitalsNM$234Kansas: median $195 across 49 hospitalsKS$195Arkansas: median $162 across 20 hospitalsAR$162Tennessee: median $82 across 58 hospitalsTN$82North Carolina: median $189 across 80 hospitalsNC$189South Carolina: median $317 across 41 hospitalsSC$317Oklahoma: median $169 across 48 hospitalsOK$169Louisiana: median $132 across 40 hospitalsLA$132Mississippi: median $98 across 47 hospitalsMS$98Alabama: median $164 across 30 hospitalsAL$164Georgia: median $252 across 86 hospitalsGA$252Hawaii: median $263 across 18 hospitalsHI$263Texas: median $314 across 164 hospitalsTX$314Florida: median $313 across 98 hospitalsFL$313
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $256. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK19$543+112%$290 – $667
Connecticut CT18$432+69%$325 – $519
Vermont VT12$375+46%$290 – $544
Virginia VA45$345+35%$163 – $452
North Dakota ND17$344+34%$247 – $511
South Carolina SC41$317+24%$209 – $345
Massachusetts MA42$317+24%$208 – $461
Texas TX164$314+23%$192 – $539
South Dakota SD34$314+23%$275 – $469
Florida FL98$313+22%$184 – $461
California CA124$304+19%$204 – $560
Wisconsin WI80$304+19%$229 – $579
Illinois IL99$280+9%$152 – $410
Washington WA60$280+9%$189 – $352
Ohio OH120$279+9%$167 – $370
Montana MT20$272+6%$195 – $315
Pennsylvania PA93$269+5%$122 – $511
Iowa IA80$265+3%$149 – $375
Hawaii HI18$263+3%$142 – $374
Nevada NV16$259+1%$102 – $362
Oregon OR51$2570%$214 – $321
Minnesota MN97$2570%$211 – $380
Georgia GA86$252−2%$123 – $436
Idaho ID22$251−2%$206 – $314
Colorado CO66$247−3%$153 – $391
Nebraska NE53$247−3%$166 – $371
Michigan MI70$234−9%$141 – $331
New Mexico NM20$234−9%$181 – $336
Maryland MD31$227−12%$187 – $322
Missouri MO61$222−13%$142 – $340
New Hampshire NH22$220−14%$122 – $485
West Virginia WV22$219−14%$143 – $422
Kentucky KY44$214−16%$119 – $347
Arizona AZ41$211−18%$112 – $836
New York NY77$210−18%$113 – $381
Indiana IN76$199−22%$156 – $336
Kansas KS49$195−24%$97 – $371
North Carolina NC80$189−26%$97 – $356
Oklahoma OK48$169−34%$106 – $337
Alabama AL30$164−36%$102 – $357
Arkansas AR20$162−37%$84 – $232
Maine ME26$149−42%$91 – $285
Louisiana LA40$132−48%$82 – $255
New Jersey NJ38$130−49%$123 – $502
Utah UT35$121−53%$97 – $232
Mississippi MS47$98−62%$70 – $188
Tennessee TN58$82−68%$46 – $179
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not 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 $256.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,809$248$130 – $417
Children’s49$385$214 – $481
Critical access670$265$169 – $389
Ownership
For-profit262$314$140 – $695
Government450$237$133 – $358
Non-profit1,816$256$141 – $410
System affiliation
Part of a system2,112$258$139 – $419
Independent422$241$149 – $379

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$414
Median cash price$256
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

1,790 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $259 and the average of the middle 60% is $261; most fall between $142 and $402.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,790 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
$97$161$259$362$514

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($97 vs $514).

Of the 1,892 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,790 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,534 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,668 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,534
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code2,668

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 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 Standardized Cognitive Performance Testing.

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, “Standardized cognitive testing by a clinician, per hour (CPT 96125) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96125-standardized-cognitive-testing-by-a-clinician-per-hour