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Procedure price report · Other physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation

Cognitive therapy session, first 15 minutes

CPT 97129the billing code this page is about

One-on-one therapy to improve thinking skills such as attention, memory, problem solving and following directions; this code covers the first 15 minutes of direct contact.

Hospitals typically charge $82 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,958 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $84. Most fall between $45 and $135 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,958
States
50
Filings dated
Nov 2023 – 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 2,958 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
$29$51$82$124$181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $181).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $30: 151 hospitals$23$30 – $38: 153 hospitals$38 – $48: 218 hospitals$38$48 – $61: 326 hospitals$61 – $78: 399 hospitals$61$78 – $100: 470 hospitals$100 – $127: 407 hospitals$100$127 – $162: 279 hospitals$162 – $206: 163 hospitals$162$206 – $263: 98 hospitals$206median $82price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,664 of 2,958 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$30151
$30$38153
$38$48218
$48$61326
$61$78399
$78$100470
$100$127407
$127$162279
$162$206163
$206$26398

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $82.

Alaska: median $150 across 17 hospitalsAK$150Maine: median $49 across 26 hospitalsME$49Vermont: median $102 across 13 hospitalsVT$102New Hampshire: median $62 across 24 hospitalsNH$62Washington: median $78 across 65 hospitalsWA$78Idaho: median $68 across 21 hospitalsID$68Montana: median $69 across 25 hospitalsMT$69North Dakota: median $98 across 20 hospitalsND$98Minnesota: median $82 across 101 hospitalsMN$82Illinois: median $108 across 116 hospitalsIL$108Wisconsin: median $83 across 97 hospitalsWI$83Michigan: median $55 across 84 hospitalsMI$55New York: median $65 across 90 hospitalsNY$65Massachusetts: median $101 across 45 hospitalsMA$101Oregon: median $78 across 53 hospitalsOR$78Nevada: median $76 across 19 hospitalsNV$76Wyoming: median $65 across 13 hospitalsWY$65South Dakota: median $115 across 38 hospitalsSD$115Iowa: median $82 across 89 hospitalsIA$82Indiana: median $75 across 85 hospitalsIN$75Ohio: median $96 across 132 hospitalsOH$96Pennsylvania: median $104 across 117 hospitalsPA$104New Jersey: median $30 across 44 hospitalsNJ$30Connecticut: median $93 across 18 hospitalsCT$93Rhode Island: median $80 across 10 hospitalsRI$80California: median $124 across 158 hospitalsCA$124Utah: median $103 across 35 hospitalsUT$103Colorado: median $85 across 69 hospitalsCO$85Nebraska: median $95 across 61 hospitalsNE$95Missouri: median $67 across 77 hospitalsMO$67Kentucky: median $63 across 50 hospitalsKY$63West Virginia: median $46 across 30 hospitalsWV$46Virginia: median $89 across 62 hospitalsVA$89Maryland: median $62 across 40 hospitalsMD$62Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $43 across 46 hospitalsAZ$43New Mexico: median $83 across 24 hospitalsNM$83Kansas: median $66 across 59 hospitalsKS$66Arkansas: median $57 across 20 hospitalsAR$57Tennessee: median $41 across 74 hospitalsTN$41North Carolina: median $67 across 93 hospitalsNC$67South Carolina: median $79 across 48 hospitalsSC$79Oklahoma: median $44 across 54 hospitalsOK$44Louisiana: median $36 across 44 hospitalsLA$36Mississippi: median $39 across 55 hospitalsMS$39Alabama: median $49 across 31 hospitalsAL$49Georgia: median $68 across 93 hospitalsGA$68Hawaii: median $75 across 15 hospitalsHI$75Texas: median $115 across 201 hospitalsTX$115Florida: median $135 across 150 hospitalsFL$135
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $82. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK17$150+83%$84 – $199
Florida FL150$135+64%$58 – $189
California CA158$124+51%$61 – $194
South Dakota SD38$115+40%$91 – $147
Texas TX201$115+40%$53 – $215
Illinois IL116$108+32%$72 – $163
Pennsylvania PA117$104+27%$31 – $192
Utah UT35$103+26%$97 – $121
Vermont VT13$102+24%$69 – $140
Massachusetts MA45$101+23%$73 – $156
North Dakota ND20$98+19%$81 – $126
Ohio OH132$96+17%$66 – $133
Nebraska NE61$95+16%$69 – $120
Connecticut CT18$93+13%$73 – $128
Virginia VA62$89+8%$49 – $113
Colorado CO69$85+4%$58 – $154
New Mexico NM24$83+1%$51 – $134
Wisconsin WI97$83+1%$61 – $138
Minnesota MN101$820%$70 – $120
Iowa IA89$820%$57 – $134
Rhode Island RI10$80−2%$35 – $118
South Carolina SC48$79−3%$38 – $121
Washington WA65$78−5%$50 – $120
Oregon OR53$78−5%$57 – $113
Nevada NV19$76−7%$50 – $126
Hawaii HI15$75−9%$57 – $99
Indiana IN85$75−9%$43 – $100
Montana MT25$69−16%$37 – $101
Idaho ID21$68−18%$54 – $93
Georgia GA93$68−18%$44 – $140
Missouri MO77$67−18%$45 – $95
North Carolina NC93$67−19%$41 – $94
Kansas KS59$66−20%$43 – $96
New York NY90$65−21%$24 – $129
Wyoming WY13$65−21%$50 – $125
Kentucky KY50$63−23%$49 – $96
Maryland MD40$62−25%$46 – $80
New Hampshire NH24$62−25%$40 – $98
Arkansas AR20$57−30%$39 – $76
Michigan MI84$55−33%$33 – $94
Alabama AL31$49−40%$34 – $105
Maine ME26$49−41%$34 – $103
West Virginia WV30$46−45%$19 – $80
Oklahoma OK54$44−47%$35 – $88
Arizona AZ46$43−47%$21 – $287
Tennessee TN74$41−50%$24 – $106
Mississippi MS55$39−52%$22 – $91
Louisiana LA44$36−56%$20 – $73
New Jersey NJ44$30−64%$26 – $109
Delaware DE7not 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 $82.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,115$80$41 – $142
Children’s55$113$57 – $152
Critical access778$83$52 – $126
Ownership
For-profit364$98$49 – $248
Government534$73$44 – $124
Non-profit2,050$82$44 – $130
System affiliation
Part of a system2,452$84$45 – $142
Independent506$71$43 – $116

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$139
Median cash price$82
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

2,055 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $84 and the average of the middle 60% is $87; most fall between $49 and $133.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,055 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
$34$55$84$124$178

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($34 vs $178).

Of the 2,176 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,055 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 96 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,958 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (75%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,120 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,958
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded120
Hospitals that filed this code3,120

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 Other physical, occupational, and speech therapy and rehabilitation family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ther Ivntj Cog Funcj Cntct 1st 15 Minutes.

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, “Cognitive therapy session, first 15 minutes (CPT 97129) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97129-cognitive-therapy-session-first-15-minutes