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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Psychological testing by a provider, each extra 30 minutes

CPT 96137the billing code this page is about

Additional time a physician or other qualified provider spends giving and scoring psychological or neuropsychological tests; billed for each extra 30 minutes beyond the first 30.

Hospitals typically charge $94 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 784 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $108. Most fall between $37 and $234 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
784
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 784 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
$23$43$94$194$298

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $298).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $21: 20 hospitals$15$21 – $29: 51 hospitals$29 – $40: 73 hospitals$29$40 – $56: 60 hospitals$56 – $78: 86 hospitals$56$78 – $108: 102 hospitals$108 – $150: 75 hospitals$108$150 – $209: 102 hospitals$209 – $290: 94 hospitals$209$290 – $404: 43 hospitals$290median $94price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (706 of 784 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$2120
$21$2951
$29$4073
$40$5660
$56$7886
$78$108102
$108$15075
$150$209102
$209$29094
$290$40443

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $94.

Alaska: 5 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 $122 across 12 hospitalsWA$122Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 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 $111 across 36 hospitalsMN$111Illinois: median $64 across 32 hospitalsIL$64Wisconsin: median $57 across 48 hospitalsWI$57Michigan: median $79 across 52 hospitalsMI$79New York: median $55 across 36 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: median $180 across 17 hospitalsMA$180Oregon: median $68 across 14 hospitalsOR$68Nevada: 7 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 $94 across 24 hospitalsIA$94Indiana: median $111 across 29 hospitalsIN$111Ohio: median $164 across 39 hospitalsOH$164Pennsylvania: median $43 across 33 hospitalsPA$43New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 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 $252 across 71 hospitalsCA$252Utah: median $86 across 11 hospitalsUT$86Colorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $73 across 10 hospitalsNE$73Missouri: median $25 across 10 hospitalsMO$25Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $49 across 24 hospitalsVA$49Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $100 across 26 hospitalsNC$100South Carolina: median $142 across 17 hospitalsSC$142Oklahoma: median $37 across 10 hospitalsOK$37Louisiana: 5 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 $239 across 17 hospitalsGA$239Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $192 across 59 hospitalsTX$192Florida: median $36 across 14 hospitalsFL$36
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $94. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA71$252+167%$116 – $262
Georgia GA17$239+154%$162 – $239
Texas TX59$192+104%$149 – $234
Massachusetts MA17$180+91%$61 – $353
Ohio OH39$164+74%$130 – $254
South Carolina SC17$142+51%$142 – $142
Washington WA12$122+30%$79 – $208
Indiana IN29$111+18%$22 – $404
Minnesota MN36$111+17%$59 – $194
North Carolina NC26$100+6%$50 – $115
Iowa IA24$940%$51 – $94
Utah UT11$86−9%$86 – $86
Michigan MI52$79−17%$23 – $156
Nebraska NE10$73−23%$29 – $83
Oregon OR14$68−28%$67 – $104
Illinois IL32$64−33%$31 – $183
Wisconsin WI48$57−40%$39 – $98
New York NY36$55−42%$23 – $154
Virginia VA24$49−48%$25 – $82
Pennsylvania PA33$43−54%$12 – $113
Oklahoma OK10$37−61%$37 – $37
Florida FL14$36−62%$26 – $991
Missouri MO10$25−74%$6 – $69
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not 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
Hawaii HI4not 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 $94.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care609$94$36 – $239
Children’s36$114$46 – $182
Critical access136$85$50 – $194
Ownership
For-profit44$102$43 – $211
Government109$98$34 – $177
Non-profit628$94$37 – $239
System affiliation
Part of a system675$100$37 – $239
Independent109$80$38 – $149

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$156
Median cash price$94
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

592 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $101 and the average of the middle 60% is $115; most fall between $43 and $239.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 592 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
$26$50$101$207$285

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $285).

Of the 631 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 592 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

784 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 854 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted784
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here13
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code854

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 Psycl/Nrpsycl Tst Phys/Qhp 2+ Tst Ea Addl 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, “Psychological testing by a provider, each extra 30 minutes (CPT 96137) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96137-psychological-testing-by-a-provider-each-extra-30-minutes