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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Psychological testing by a technician, each extra 30 minutes

CPT 96139the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $102 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 683 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $115. Most fall between $45 and $246 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
683
States
48
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 683 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
$25$50$102$220$468

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $468).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $23: 29 hospitals$16$23 – $35: 28 hospitals$35 – $53: 95 hospitals$35$53 – $80: 91 hospitals$80 – $120: 97 hospitals$80$120 – $180: 107 hospitals$180 – $271: 86 hospitals$180$271 – $407: 43 hospitals$407 – $612: 24 hospitals$407$612 – $921: 20 hospitals$612median $102price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (620 of 683 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$2329
$23$3528
$35$5395
$53$8091
$80$12097
$120$180107
$180$27186
$271$40743
$407$61224
$612$92120

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $102.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $111 across 24 hospitalsMN$111Illinois: median $91 across 32 hospitalsIL$91Wisconsin: median $70 across 48 hospitalsWI$70Michigan: median $47 across 48 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $154 across 38 hospitalsNY$154Massachusetts: median $106 across 10 hospitalsMA$106Oregon: median $63 across 12 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $80 across 20 hospitalsIA$80Indiana: median $158 across 28 hospitalsIN$158Ohio: median $151 across 37 hospitalsOH$151Pennsylvania: median $43 across 31 hospitalsPA$43New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $309 across 58 hospitalsCA$309Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $125 across 11 hospitalsWV$125Virginia: median $24 across 25 hospitalsVA$24Maryland: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $95 across 20 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $135 across 14 hospitalsSC$135Oklahoma: median $53 across 10 hospitalsOK$53Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $124 across 17 hospitalsGA$124Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $173 across 53 hospitalsTX$173Florida: median $317 across 17 hospitalsFL$317
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $102. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL17$317+211%$71 – $991
California CA58$309+203%$121 – $930
Texas TX53$173+70%$171 – $223
Indiana IN28$158+55%$41 – $512
New York NY38$154+51%$28 – $229
Ohio OH37$151+48%$102 – $254
South Carolina SC14$135+32%$50 – $135
West Virginia WV11$125+22%$80 – $125
Georgia GA17$124+21%$124 – $145
Minnesota MN24$111+8%$39 – $125
Massachusetts MA10$106+4%$50 – $245
North Carolina NC20$95−7%$44 – $100
Illinois IL32$91−11%$46 – $921
Iowa IA20$80−22%$71 – $80
Wisconsin WI48$70−31%$49 – $181
Oregon OR12$63−38%$63 – $88
Oklahoma OK10$53−49%$53 – $53
Michigan MI48$47−54%$27 – $78
Pennsylvania PA31$43−58%$12 – $131
Virginia VA25$24−76%$20 – $102
Maryland MD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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 $102.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care545$102$44 – $254
Children’s31$154$96 – $254
Critical access104$88$49 – $203
Ownership
For-profit39$102$57 – $173
Government97$95$45 – $162
Non-profit544$103$45 – $254
System affiliation
Part of a system596$102$45 – $254
Independent87$99$50 – $195

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$165
Median cash price$102
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

528 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $101 and the average of the middle 60% is $111; most fall between $47 and $225.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 528 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
$24$53$101$186$309

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($24 vs $309).

Of the 556 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 528 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

683 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 736 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted683
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded43
Hospitals that filed this code736

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 Tech 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 technician, each extra 30 minutes (CPT 96139) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96139-psychological-testing-by-a-technician-each-extra-30-minutes