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Group parent training for behavior problems, first 60 min

CPT 96202the billing code this page is about

Group session teaching parents or guardians of several children strategies for managing a child's behavior, without the children present; covers the first 60 minutes.

Hospitals typically charge $57 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 183 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $70. Most fall between $26 and $159 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
183
States
28
Filings dated
Jul 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 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 183 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$28$57$150$184

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $184).

How the prices are spread

$16 – $22: 9 hospitals$16$22 – $30: 33 hospitals$30 – $40: 25 hospitals$30$40 – $55: 8 hospitals$55 – $74: 34 hospitals$55$74 – $101: 5 hospitals$101 – $136: 5 hospitals$101$136 – $185: 37 hospitals$185 – $251: 4 hospitals$185$251 – $340: 5 hospitals$251median $57price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (165 of 183 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$16$229
$22$3033
$30$4025
$40$558
$55$7434
$74$1015
$101$1365
$136$18537
$185$2514
$251$3405

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $57.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $140 across 12 hospitalsWI$140Michigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $23 across 13 hospitalsNY$23Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $35 across 17 hospitalsIN$35Ohio: median $159 across 16 hospitalsOH$159Pennsylvania: median $14 across 13 hospitalsPA$14New Jersey: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $57 across 28 hospitalsCA$57Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $184 across 15 hospitalsTX$184Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $57. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX15$184+222%$98 – $184
Ohio OH16$159+179%$159 – $159
Wisconsin WI12$140+144%$60 – $140
California CA28$570%$57 – $256
Indiana IN17$35−39%$26 – $37
New York NY13$23−59%$23 – $23
Pennsylvania PA13$14−75%$13 – $188
New Jersey NJ9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $57.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care142$57$23 – $159
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$44$35 – $140
Ownership
For-profit9fewer than 20 hospitals
Government27$77$23 – $184
Non-profit146$57$28 – $159
System affiliation
Part of a system164$57$24 – $159
Independent19fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$102
Median cash price$57
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

119 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $73 and the average of the middle 60% is $95; most fall between $37 and $184.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 119 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
$33$55$73$159$256

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $256).

Of the 122 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 119 gave a usable cash price; 1 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

183 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 188 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted183
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code188

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 5, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as MLT FAM GRP BHV TRAIN 1ST 60.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Group parent training for behavior problems, first 60 min (CPT 96202) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-96202-group-parent-training-for-behavior-problems-first-60-min