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Caregiver training without the patient, first 30 minutes

CPT 97550the billing code this page is about

Face-to-face training of a family member or caregiver in how to help the patient with daily activities, given without the patient present; covers the first 30 minutes.

Hospitals typically charge $101 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,541 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $105. Most fall between $60 and $164 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,541
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 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 1,541 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
$44$66$101$150$233

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($44 vs $233).

How the prices are spread

$35 – $43: 66 hospitals$35$43 – $54: 123 hospitals$54 – $67: 153 hospitals$54$67 – $84: 165 hospitals$84 – $105: 225 hospitals$84$105 – $131: 216 hospitals$131 – $163: 205 hospitals$131$163 – $204: 107 hospitals$204 – $255: 80 hospitals$204$255 – $318: 47 hospitals$255median $101price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,387 of 1,541 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$35$4366
$43$54123
$54$67153
$67$84165
$84$105225
$105$131216
$131$163205
$163$204107
$204$25580
$255$31847

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $101.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $60 across 20 hospitalsME$60Vermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $78 across 17 hospitalsNH$78Washington: median $99 across 41 hospitalsWA$99Idaho: median $128 across 12 hospitalsID$128Montana: median $103 across 13 hospitalsMT$103North Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $79 across 48 hospitalsMN$79Illinois: median $91 across 58 hospitalsIL$91Wisconsin: median $159 across 49 hospitalsWI$159Michigan: median $55 across 28 hospitalsMI$55New York: median $89 across 53 hospitalsNY$89Massachusetts: median $136 across 20 hospitalsMA$136Oregon: median $120 across 35 hospitalsOR$120Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $125 across 13 hospitalsSD$125Iowa: median $122 across 33 hospitalsIA$122Indiana: median $69 across 46 hospitalsIN$69Ohio: median $131 across 85 hospitalsOH$131Pennsylvania: median $103 across 77 hospitalsPA$103New Jersey: median $61 across 24 hospitalsNJ$61Connecticut: median $244 across 10 hospitalsCT$244Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $91 across 88 hospitalsCA$91Utah: median $126 across 27 hospitalsUT$126Colorado: median $101 across 41 hospitalsCO$101Nebraska: median $140 across 14 hospitalsNE$140Missouri: median $94 across 34 hospitalsMO$94Kentucky: median $149 across 18 hospitalsKY$149West Virginia: median $50 across 20 hospitalsWV$50Virginia: median $79 across 55 hospitalsVA$79Maryland: median $92 across 28 hospitalsMD$92Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $99 across 20 hospitalsKS$99Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $67 across 37 hospitalsTN$67North Carolina: median $94 across 57 hospitalsNC$94South Carolina: median $88 across 40 hospitalsSC$88Oklahoma: median $93 across 10 hospitalsOK$93Louisiana: median $41 across 24 hospitalsLA$41Mississippi: median $50 across 22 hospitalsMS$50Alabama: median $86 across 18 hospitalsAL$86Georgia: median $71 across 56 hospitalsGA$71Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $198 across 104 hospitalsTX$198Florida: median $134 across 70 hospitalsFL$134
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $101. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT10$244+142%$37 – $392
Texas TX104$198+96%$114 – $236
Wisconsin WI49$159+57%$93 – $177
Kentucky KY18$149+48%$77 – $276
Nebraska NE14$140+39%$110 – $202
Massachusetts MA20$136+35%$91 – $183
Florida FL70$134+33%$98 – $314
Ohio OH85$131+30%$80 – $229
Idaho ID12$128+27%$85 – $132
Utah UT27$126+25%$118 – $128
South Dakota SD13$125+24%$121 – $137
Iowa IA33$122+21%$78 – $188
Oregon OR35$120+19%$89 – $198
Pennsylvania PA77$103+2%$47 – $174
Montana MT13$103+2%$90 – $133
Colorado CO41$1010%$45 – $133
Kansas KS20$99−2%$42 – $145
Washington WA41$99−2%$66 – $161
Missouri MO34$94−7%$77 – $117
North Carolina NC57$94−7%$65 – $163
Oklahoma OK10$93−8%$56 – $150
Maryland MD28$92−9%$71 – $143
Illinois IL58$91−10%$79 – $192
California CA88$91−10%$52 – $360
New York NY53$89−12%$49 – $173
South Carolina SC40$88−13%$74 – $129
Alabama AL18$86−15%$70 – $274
Virginia VA55$79−21%$60 – $101
Minnesota MN48$79−22%$66 – $130
New Hampshire NH17$78−23%$65 – $157
Georgia GA56$71−30%$35 – $137
Indiana IN46$69−31%$41 – $101
Tennessee TN37$67−34%$43 – $87
New Jersey NJ24$61−39%$54 – $240
Maine ME20$60−40%$35 – $95
Michigan MI28$55−46%$44 – $112
Mississippi MS22$50−50%$36 – $85
West Virginia WV20$50−51%$44 – $66
Louisiana LA24$41−60%$29 – $75
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not 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 $101.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,190$98$55 – $171
Children’s40$150$86 – $187
Critical access305$110$67 – $147
Ownership
For-profit134$128$46 – $267
Government216$95$61 – $147
Non-profit1,185$101$60 – $162
System affiliation
Part of a system1,373$103$60 – $166
Independent168$91$54 – $160

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$165
Median cash price$101
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

1,174 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $102 and the average of the middle 60% is $105; most fall between $60 and $161.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,174 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
$43$66$102$149$218

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($43 vs $218).

Of the 1,233 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,174 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 47 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,541 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,617 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,541
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,617

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.

Related procedures

Part of the Ancillary Services family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as CAREGIVER TRAING 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, “Caregiver training without the patient, first 30 minutes (CPT 97550) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97550-caregiver-training-without-the-patient-first-30-minutes