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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Automated computer-based psychological test with result

CPT 96146the billing code this page is about

A single psychological or neuropsychological test given on a computer or other electronic platform, where the result is generated automatically; billed once per test instrument.

Hospitals typically charge $36 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 556 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $7 and $152 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
556
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 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 556 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
$4$14$36$127$274

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 62× what the cheapest tenth charges ($4 vs $274).

How the prices are spread

$3 – $5: 65 hospitals$3$5 – $9: 31 hospitals$9 – $14: 25 hospitals$9$14 – $24: 57 hospitals$24 – $39: 83 hospitals$24$39 – $65: 69 hospitals$65 – $107: 50 hospitals$65$107 – $176: 57 hospitals$176 – $291: 42 hospitals$176$291 – $482: 39 hospitals$291median $36price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (518 of 556 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3$565
$5$931
$9$1425
$14$2457
$24$3983
$39$6569
$65$10750
$107$17657
$176$29142
$291$48239

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$36
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $36.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: median $114 across 10 hospitalsWA$114Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $17 across 20 hospitalsMN$17Illinois: median $13 across 22 hospitalsIL$13Wisconsin: median $7 across 32 hospitalsWI$7Michigan: median $6 across 30 hospitalsMI$6New York: median $30 across 37 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $74 across 11 hospitalsMA$74Oregon: median $31 across 16 hospitalsOR$31Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $5 across 18 hospitalsIA$5Indiana: median $29 across 24 hospitalsIN$29Ohio: median $47 across 25 hospitalsOH$47Pennsylvania: median $147 across 23 hospitalsPA$147New Jersey: median $27 across 12 hospitalsNJ$27Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $274 across 56 hospitalsCA$274Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $142 across 12 hospitalsKY$142West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $19 across 16 hospitalsVA$19Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $95 across 15 hospitalsNC$95South Carolina: median $156 across 17 hospitalsSC$156Oklahoma: median $4 across 12 hospitalsOK$4Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $141 across 36 hospitalsTX$141Florida: median $14 across 12 hospitalsFL$14
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $36. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA56$274+658%$96 – $482
South Carolina SC17$156+332%$35 – $156
Pennsylvania PA23$147+306%$17 – $196
Kentucky KY12$142+293%$21 – $142
Texas TX36$141+289%$25 – $184
Washington WA10$114+216%$38 – $146
North Carolina NC15$95+164%$19 – $95
Massachusetts MA11$74+105%$61 – $205
Ohio OH25$47+31%$38 – $120
Oregon OR16$31−14%$5 – $88
New York NY37$30−18%$26 – $51
Indiana IN24$29−20%$17 – $41
New Jersey NJ12$27−25%$27 – $37
Virginia VA16$19−49%$19 – $24
Minnesota MN20$17−54%$14 – $42
Florida FL12$14−61%$14 – $638
Illinois IL22$13−64%$5 – $46
Wisconsin WI32$7−80%$4 – $17
Michigan MI30$6−83%$3 – $21
Iowa IA18$5−87%$5 – $95
Oklahoma OK12$4−90%$4 – $4
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $36.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care441$37$8 – $156
Children’s27$49$19 – $203
Critical access86$21$6 – $71
Ownership
For-profit29$31$5 – $141
Government95$35$14 – $95
Non-profit430$37$7 – $156
System affiliation
Part of a system481$37$7 – $156
Independent75$32$6 – $113

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$73
Median cash price$36
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

402 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $40 and the average of the middle 60% is $54; most fall between $7 and $179.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 402 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
$5$14$40$152$302

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 63× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $302).

Of the 425 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 402 gave a usable cash price; 11 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

556 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted556
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here15
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code589

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 Psycl/Nrpsycl Tst Elec Platform Auto Result.

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, “Automated computer-based psychological test with result (CPT 96146) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96146-automated-computer-based-psychological-test-with-result