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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Health risk questionnaire completed by the patient

CPT 96160the billing code this page is about

Administration of a standardized health risk questionnaire filled out about the patient, including scoring the answers and recording the result in the chart.

Hospitals typically charge $28 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 740 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $30. Most fall between $8 and $66 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
740
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 740 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$10$28$59$98

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $98).

How the prices are spread

$4 – $6: 65 hospitals$4$6 – $8: 61 hospitals$8 – $12: 77 hospitals$8$12 – $16: 39 hospitals$16 – $23: 65 hospitals$16$23 – $32: 52 hospitals$32 – $45: 96 hospitals$32$45 – $63: 82 hospitals$63 – $88: 86 hospitals$63$88 – $123: 47 hospitals$88median $28price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (670 of 740 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$4$665
$6$861
$8$1277
$12$1639
$16$2365
$23$3252
$32$4596
$45$6382
$63$8886
$88$12347

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$28
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.74×

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 $28.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $12 across 14 hospitalsME$12Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $33 across 13 hospitalsWA$33Idaho: 9 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 $27 across 21 hospitalsMN$27Illinois: median $25 across 34 hospitalsIL$25Wisconsin: median $20 across 29 hospitalsWI$20Michigan: median $33 across 55 hospitalsMI$33New York: median $28 across 69 hospitalsNY$28Massachusetts: median $87 across 20 hospitalsMA$87Oregon: median $9 across 25 hospitalsOR$9Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $11 across 25 hospitalsIA$11Indiana: median $8 across 20 hospitalsIN$8Ohio: median $58 across 28 hospitalsOH$58Pennsylvania: median $41 across 23 hospitalsPA$41New Jersey: median $33 across 14 hospitalsNJ$33Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $73 across 39 hospitalsCA$73Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $26 across 10 hospitalsCO$26Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $10 across 10 hospitalsKY$10West Virginia: median $12 across 13 hospitalsWV$12Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $17 across 10 hospitalsTN$17North Carolina: median $11 across 18 hospitalsNC$11South Carolina: median $54 across 14 hospitalsSC$54Oklahoma: median $5 across 20 hospitalsOK$5Louisiana: median $22 across 14 hospitalsLA$22Mississippi: median $11 across 13 hospitalsMS$11Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: median $71 across 11 hospitalsHI$71Texas: median $64 across 47 hospitalsTX$64Florida: median $21 across 28 hospitalsFL$21
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $28. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA20$87+207%$37 – $114
California CA39$73+157%$8 – $73
Hawaii HI11$71+152%$48 – $81
Texas TX47$64+127%$21 – $70
Ohio OH28$58+104%$13 – $58
South Carolina SC14$54+89%$31 – $55
Pennsylvania PA23$41+43%$11 – $44
Michigan MI55$33+16%$10 – $52
New Jersey NJ14$33+16%$33 – $48
Washington WA13$33+15%$10 – $53
New York NY69$28−3%$10 – $66
Minnesota MN21$27−5%$7 – $147
Colorado CO10$26−7%$13 – $42
Illinois IL34$25−13%$5 – $68
Louisiana LA14$22−22%$4 – $44
Florida FL28$21−25%$5 – $38
Wisconsin WI29$20−29%$20 – $116
Tennessee TN10$17−39%$3 – $58
Maine ME14$12−59%$5 – $30
West Virginia WV13$12−59%$3 – $34
Iowa IA25$11−60%$10 – $28
North Carolina NC18$11−62%$11 – $22
Mississippi MS13$11−63%$9 – $23
Kentucky KY10$10−65%$4 – $40
Oregon OR25$9−68%$5 – $26
Indiana IN20$8−74%$4 – $20
Oklahoma OK20$5−83%$5 – $26
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $28.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care521$33$8 – $70
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access199$20$6 – $65
Ownership
For-profit52$14$5 – $64
Government140$21$8 – $42
Non-profit546$32$8 – $70
System affiliation
Part of a system587$31$8 – $70
Independent153$21$7 – $59

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$40
Median cash price$28
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

452 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $29 and the average of the middle 60% is $33; most fall between $7 and $70.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 452 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$9$29$64$94

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($5 vs $94).

Of the 502 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 452 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 21 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

740 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 808 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted740
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded22
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code808

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 Pt-Focused Hlth Risk Assmt Score Doc Stnd Instrm.

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, “Health risk questionnaire completed by the patient (CPT 96160) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96160-health-risk-questionnaire-completed-by-the-patient