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Physical therapy evaluation

CPT 97001the billing code this page is about

An initial assessment by a physical therapist covering history, testing of movement and function, and creation of a treatment plan. This older code has been replaced by evaluations graded by complexity.

Hospitals typically charge $134 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 181 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $145. Most fall between $81 and $267 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
181
States
35
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 181 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
$64$97$134$212$409

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($64 vs $409).

How the prices are spread

$42 – $54: 6 hospitals$42$54 – $70: 10 hospitals$70 – $90: 19 hospitals$70$90 – $116: 38 hospitals$116 – $149: 18 hospitals$116$149 – $192: 22 hospitals$192 – $247: 21 hospitals$192$247 – $318: 11 hospitals$318 – $410: 10 hospitals$318$410 – $528: 9 hospitals$410median $134price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (164 of 181 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$42$546
$54$7010
$70$9019
$90$11638
$116$14918
$149$19222
$192$24721
$247$31811
$318$41010
$410$5289

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $134.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 3 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $210 across 15 hospitalsIL$210Wisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $216 across 11 hospitalsCA$216Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $81 across 12 hospitalsNE$81Missouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: median $134 across 11 hospitalsKS$134Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $100 across 17 hospitalsOK$100Louisiana: 4 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $268 across 12 hospitalsTX$268Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $134. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX12$268+100%$84 – $528
California CA11$216+61%$203 – $419
Illinois IL15$210+57%$68 – $414
Kansas KS11$1340%$81 – $184
Oklahoma OK17$100−25%$97 – $100
Nebraska NE12$81−40%$81 – $166
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $134.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care93$101$84 – $200
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access69$143$64 – $231
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government49$154$84 – $268
Non-profit113$120$85 – $267
System affiliation
Part of a system127$125$86 – $271
Independent54$139$76 – $215

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$210
Median cash price$134
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

124 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $107 and the average of the middle 60% is $124; most fall between $79 and $210.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 124 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
$62$81$107$194$293

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($62 vs $293).

Of the 136 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 124 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 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

181 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 211 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted181
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here4
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 — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code211

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 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.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Other Professional.

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, “Physical therapy evaluation (CPT 97001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97001-physical-therapy-evaluation