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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Giving and scoring psychological tests, first 30 minutes

CPT 96136the billing code this page is about

A psychologist or physician administers and scores two or more standardized psychological or brain-function tests; covers the first 30 minutes of that testing time.

Hospitals typically charge $140 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 864 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $148. Most fall between $52 and $286 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
864
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – 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 864 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
$34$65$140$252$370

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $370).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $29: 32 hospitals$21$29 – $40: 45 hospitals$40 – $55: 61 hospitals$40$55 – $75: 83 hospitals$75 – $103: 94 hospitals$75$103 – $142: 80 hospitals$142 – $195: 111 hospitals$142$195 – $267: 135 hospitals$267 – $367: 77 hospitals$267$367 – $504: 62 hospitals$367median $140price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (780 of 864 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$2932
$29$4045
$40$5561
$55$7583
$75$10394
$103$14280
$142$195111
$195$267135
$267$36777
$367$50462

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$140
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

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 $140.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $141 across 16 hospitalsWA$141Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $109 across 34 hospitalsMN$109Illinois: median $110 across 31 hospitalsIL$110Wisconsin: median $88 across 50 hospitalsWI$88Michigan: median $90 across 51 hospitalsMI$90New York: median $153 across 52 hospitalsNY$153Massachusetts: median $195 across 19 hospitalsMA$195Oregon: median $77 across 15 hospitalsOR$77Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $103 across 23 hospitalsIA$103Indiana: median $121 across 29 hospitalsIN$121Ohio: median $252 across 39 hospitalsOH$252Pennsylvania: median $153 across 53 hospitalsPA$153New Jersey: median $152 across 20 hospitalsNJ$152Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $368 across 71 hospitalsCA$368Utah: median $93 across 11 hospitalsUT$93Colorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $79 across 12 hospitalsNE$79Missouri: median $47 across 11 hospitalsMO$47Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $128 across 15 hospitalsWV$128Virginia: median $74 across 26 hospitalsVA$74Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $37 across 10 hospitalsTN$37North Carolina: median $115 across 25 hospitalsNC$115South Carolina: median $155 across 20 hospitalsSC$155Oklahoma: median $47 across 13 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $286 across 17 hospitalsGA$286Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $225 across 59 hospitalsTX$225Florida: median $120 across 21 hospitalsFL$120
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $140. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA71$368+164%$248 – $370
Georgia GA17$286+105%$286 – $336
Ohio OH39$252+80%$142 – $317
Texas TX59$225+61%$192 – $234
Massachusetts MA19$195+40%$74 – $357
South Carolina SC20$155+11%$155 – $161
Pennsylvania PA53$153+10%$52 – $227
New York NY52$153+9%$43 – $222
New Jersey NJ20$152+9%$143 – $313
Washington WA16$141+1%$54 – $288
West Virginia WV15$128−9%$68 – $188
Indiana IN29$121−13%$24 – $512
Florida FL21$120−14%$51 – $315
North Carolina NC25$115−18%$62 – $115
Illinois IL31$110−21%$58 – $216
Minnesota MN34$109−22%$61 – $195
Iowa IA23$103−26%$61 – $103
Utah UT11$93−33%$93 – $93
Michigan MI51$90−35%$21 – $365
Wisconsin WI50$88−37%$50 – $121
Nebraska NE12$79−43%$39 – $134
Oregon OR15$77−45%$24 – $87
Virginia VA26$74−47%$28 – $89
Missouri MO11$47−66%$24 – $75
Oklahoma OK13$47−66%$47 – $244
Tennessee TN10$37−74%$36 – $77
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $140.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care686$151$53 – $286
Children’s36$140$70 – $270
Critical access139$101$50 – $234
Ownership
For-profit50$161$68 – $286
Government125$116$51 – $234
Non-profit686$143$53 – $288
System affiliation
Part of a system743$151$53 – $295
Independent121$111$51 – $244

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$209
Median cash price$140
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

631 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $128 and the average of the middle 60% is $148; most fall between $53 and $288.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 631 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
$36$64$128$255$370

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($36 vs $370).

Of the 667 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 631 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

864 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 914 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted864
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here23
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code914

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 Psyl/Nrpsycl Tst Phys/Qhp 2+ Tst 1st 30 Min.

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, “Giving and scoring psychological tests, first 30 minutes (CPT 96136) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96136-giving-and-scoring-psychological-tests-first-30-minutes