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Group caregiver training session

CPT 97552the billing code this page is about

Face-to-face training of caregivers from more than one family in a group setting, given without the patients present; billed once per group session.

Hospitals typically charge $38 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,192 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $42. Most fall between $19 and $78 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,192
States
50
Filings dated
Sep 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 1,192 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
$13$23$38$68$117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $117).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $14: 96 hospitals$11$14 – $19: 85 hospitals$19 – $26: 95 hospitals$19$26 – $34: 184 hospitals$34 – $46: 162 hospitals$34$46 – $62: 191 hospitals$62 – $83: 118 hospitals$62$83 – $111: 74 hospitals$111 – $149: 32 hospitals$111$149 – $200: 39 hospitals$149median $38price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,076 of 1,192 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$1496
$14$1985
$19$2695
$26$34184
$34$46162
$46$62191
$62$83118
$83$11174
$111$14932
$149$20039

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $38.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $20 across 19 hospitalsME$20Vermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $43 across 33 hospitalsWA$43Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $39 across 30 hospitalsMN$39Illinois: median $35 across 46 hospitalsIL$35Wisconsin: median $74 across 42 hospitalsWI$74Michigan: median $16 across 14 hospitalsMI$16New York: median $23 across 46 hospitalsNY$23Massachusetts: median $63 across 14 hospitalsMA$63Oregon: median $51 across 13 hospitalsOR$51Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $52 across 24 hospitalsIA$52Indiana: median $52 across 33 hospitalsIN$52Ohio: median $58 across 74 hospitalsOH$58Pennsylvania: median $36 across 59 hospitalsPA$36New Jersey: median $14 across 21 hospitalsNJ$14Connecticut: median $75 across 10 hospitalsCT$75Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $52 across 65 hospitalsCA$52Utah: median $30 across 24 hospitalsUT$30Colorado: median $38 across 39 hospitalsCO$38Nebraska: median $89 across 11 hospitalsNE$89Missouri: median $24 across 22 hospitalsMO$24Kentucky: median $61 across 16 hospitalsKY$61West Virginia: median $25 across 22 hospitalsWV$25Virginia: median $25 across 35 hospitalsVA$25Maryland: median $58 across 27 hospitalsMD$58Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 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 $24 across 10 hospitalsKS$24Arkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $78 across 18 hospitalsTN$78North Carolina: median $34 across 53 hospitalsNC$34South Carolina: median $17 across 33 hospitalsSC$17Oklahoma: median $13 across 10 hospitalsOK$13Louisiana: median $18 across 18 hospitalsLA$18Mississippi: median $14 across 23 hospitalsMS$14Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $30 across 52 hospitalsGA$30Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $35 across 83 hospitalsTX$35Florida: median $45 across 60 hospitalsFL$45
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $38. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Nebraska NE11$89+131%$59 – $107
Tennessee TN18$78+103%$7 – $86
Connecticut CT10$75+95%$48 – $105
Wisconsin WI42$74+93%$36 – $77
Massachusetts MA14$63+64%$24 – $87
Kentucky KY16$61+58%$32 – $276
Ohio OH74$58+50%$33 – $121
Maryland MD27$58+50%$42 – $71
Indiana IN33$52+36%$18 – $106
Iowa IA24$52+35%$33 – $85
California CA65$52+34%$44 – $198
Oregon OR13$51+33%$35 – $54
Florida FL60$45+17%$32 – $184
Washington WA33$43+12%$29 – $59
Minnesota MN30$39+1%$28 – $57
Colorado CO39$380%$19 – $67
Pennsylvania PA59$36−6%$19 – $68
Texas TX83$35−8%$14 – $200
Illinois IL46$35−10%$21 – $72
North Carolina NC53$34−11%$18 – $82
Utah UT24$30−22%$30 – $30
Georgia GA52$30−22%$7 – $41
Virginia VA35$25−35%$15 – $41
West Virginia WV22$25−35%$22 – $46
Missouri MO22$24−38%$23 – $48
Kansas KS10$24−39%$17 – $72
New York NY46$23−40%$12 – $75
Maine ME19$20−48%$11 – $27
Louisiana LA18$18−54%$13 – $30
South Carolina SC33$17−56%$13 – $36
Michigan MI14$16−59%$13 – $77
New Jersey NJ21$14−63%$13 – $14
Mississippi MS23$14−65%$7 – $35
Oklahoma OK10$13−65%$10 – $56
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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 $38.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care942$37$17 – $81
Children’s22$48$29 – $82
Critical access223$43$24 – $63
Ownership
For-profit100$43$14 – $156
Government171$39$19 – $78
Non-profit916$37$19 – $76
System affiliation
Part of a system1,078$37$19 – $79
Independent114$42$20 – $69

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$68
Median cash price$38
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

916 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $37 and the average of the middle 60% is $41; most fall between $18 and $72.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 916 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
$13$23$37$61$100

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($13 vs $100).

Of the 953 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 916 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,192 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (30%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,239 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,192
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,239

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 GROUP CAREGIVER TRAINING.

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 caregiver training session (CPT 97552) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97552-group-caregiver-training-session