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Procedure price report · Psychological and psychiatric evaluation and therapy

Family health behavior counseling without patient, 30 min

CPT 96170the billing code this page is about

Face-to-face behavioral intervention for the patient's physical health condition delivered to family members when the patient is not present; covers the first 30 minutes.

Hospitals typically charge $121 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 430 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $129. Most fall between $68 and $211 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
430
States
43
Filings dated
Sep 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 430 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
$42$86$121$185$256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($42 vs $256).

How the prices are spread

$27 – $35: 9 hospitals$27$35 – $46: 25 hospitals$46 – $59: 19 hospitals$46$59 – $77: 25 hospitals$77 – $100: 90 hospitals$77$100 – $130: 63 hospitals$130 – $169: 37 hospitals$130$169 – $219: 70 hospitals$219 – $285: 44 hospitals$219$285 – $370: 8 hospitals$285median $121price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (390 of 430 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$27$359
$35$4625
$46$5919
$59$7725
$77$10090
$100$13063
$130$16937
$169$21970
$219$28544
$285$3708

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $121.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $184 across 16 hospitalsMN$184Illinois: median $110 across 17 hospitalsIL$110Wisconsin: median $121 across 18 hospitalsWI$121Michigan: median $88 across 25 hospitalsMI$88New York: median $76 across 21 hospitalsNY$76Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $141 across 17 hospitalsOR$141Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $180 across 16 hospitalsIA$180Indiana: median $116 across 22 hospitalsIN$116Ohio: median $92 across 32 hospitalsOH$92Pennsylvania: median $58 across 17 hospitalsPA$58New 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 $98 across 30 hospitalsCA$98Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $185 across 15 hospitalsNC$185South Carolina: median $211 across 11 hospitalsSC$211Oklahoma: median $126 across 10 hospitalsOK$126Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $96 across 44 hospitalsTX$96Florida: median $124 across 22 hospitalsFL$124
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $121. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC11$211+75%$211 – $211
North Carolina NC15$185+54%$27 – $185
Minnesota MN16$184+52%$125 – $184
Iowa IA16$180+49%$130 – $180
Oregon OR17$141+17%$99 – $209
Oklahoma OK10$126+4%$126 – $126
Florida FL22$124+3%$75 – $390
Wisconsin WI18$1210%$115 – $178
Indiana IN22$116−4%$66 – $148
Illinois IL17$110−9%$91 – $203
California CA30$98−19%$68 – $182
Texas TX44$96−20%$92 – $229
Ohio OH32$92−24%$87 – $171
Michigan MI25$88−27%$44 – $106
New York NY21$76−37%$62 – $261
Pennsylvania PA17$58−52%$48 – $182
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $121.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care346$116$66 – $211
Children’s29$138$87 – $370
Critical access54$121$86 – $185
Ownership
For-profit32$92$91 – $190
Government61$143$53 – $223
Non-profit336$118$69 – $210
System affiliation
Part of a system370$121$73 – $211
Independent60$128$50 – $197

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$205
Median cash price$121
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

330 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $121 and the average of the middle 60% is $133; most fall between $79 and $211.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 330 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
$47$87$121$185$247

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($47 vs $247).

Of the 348 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 330 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

430 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 469 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted430
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
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 — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code469

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 Health Behavior Ivntj Fam W/O Pt F2f 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, “Family health behavior counseling without patient, 30 min (CPT 96170) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96170-family-health-behavior-counseling-without-patient-30-min