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Procedure price report · Diagnostic physical, occupational, and speech therapy

Athletic training evaluation, low complexity

CPT 97169the billing code this page is about

An initial assessment by an athletic trainer for a straightforward problem, typically about 15 minutes of face-to-face time; billed once per evaluation.

Hospitals typically charge $153 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 178 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $151. Most fall between $81 and $214 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
178
States
27
Filings dated
Jun 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 178 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
$57$85$153$214$238

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $238).

How the prices are spread

$36 – $45: 5 hospitals$36$45 – $55: 2 hospitals$55 – $68: 13 hospitals$55$68 – $85: 16 hospitals$85 – $105: 11 hospitals$85$105 – $130: 28 hospitals$130 – $161: 9 hospitals$130$161 – $199: 27 hospitals$199 – $247: 44 hospitals$199$247 – $306: 7 hospitals$247median $153price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (162 of 178 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$36$455
$45$552
$55$6813
$68$8516
$85$10511
$105$13028
$130$1619
$161$19927
$199$24744
$247$3067

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $153.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $111 across 43 hospitalsWI$111Michigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $81 across 11 hospitalsIA$81Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $207 across 17 hospitalsOH$207Pennsylvania: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable pricePANew Jersey: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $214 across 20 hospitalsCA$214Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $216 across 10 hospitalsVA$216Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $153. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA10$216+41%$164 – $216
California CA20$214+40%$214 – $214
Ohio OH17$207+35%$188 – $234
Wisconsin WI43$111−27%$102 – $172
Iowa IA11$81−47%$81 – $81
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ1not 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 $153.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care125$167$81 – $214
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access50$111$65 – $186
Ownership
For-profit12fewer than 20 hospitals
Government21$99$36 – $234
Non-profit145$167$81 – $214
System affiliation
Part of a system158$159$81 – $214
Independent20$128$44 – $244

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$224
Median cash price$153
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

132 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $154 and the average of the middle 60% is $153; most fall between $81 and $214.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 132 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
$57$81$154$214$234

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($57 vs $234).

Of the 144 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 132 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

178 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 192 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted178
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here9
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code192

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Diagnostic physical, occupational, and speech therapy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as ATHLETIC TRN EVAL LOW CMPLX.

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, “Athletic training evaluation, low complexity (CPT 97169) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97169-athletic-training-evaluation-low-complexity