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First nutrition counseling visit, each 15 minutes

CPT 97802the billing code this page is about

Initial one-on-one assessment and diet counseling by a nutrition professional. Each unit covers 15 minutes of face-to-face time.

Hospitals typically charge $52 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,754 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $54. Most fall between $30 and $92 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,754
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 2,754 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
$23$34$52$80$129

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $129).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $21: 113 hospitals$17$21 – $27: 216 hospitals$27 – $34: 214 hospitals$27$34 – $43: 392 hospitals$43 – $54: 375 hospitals$43$54 – $68: 432 hospitals$68 – $86: 247 hospitals$68$86 – $109: 262 hospitals$109 – $137: 124 hospitals$109$137 – $173: 107 hospitals$137median $52price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,482 of 2,754 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$21113
$21$27216
$27$34214
$34$43392
$43$54375
$54$68432
$68$86247
$86$109262
$109$137124
$137$173107

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $52.

Alaska: median $95 across 18 hospitalsAK$95Maine: median $46 across 27 hospitalsME$46Vermont: median $63 across 11 hospitalsVT$63New Hampshire: median $50 across 22 hospitalsNH$50Washington: median $62 across 68 hospitalsWA$62Idaho: median $45 across 21 hospitalsID$45Montana: median $47 across 23 hospitalsMT$47North Dakota: median $100 across 21 hospitalsND$100Minnesota: median $61 across 97 hospitalsMN$61Illinois: median $51 across 106 hospitalsIL$51Wisconsin: median $59 across 86 hospitalsWI$59Michigan: median $46 across 89 hospitalsMI$46New York: median $58 across 104 hospitalsNY$58Massachusetts: median $101 across 46 hospitalsMA$101Oregon: median $63 across 50 hospitalsOR$63Nevada: median $70 across 15 hospitalsNV$70Wyoming: median $61 across 15 hospitalsWY$61South Dakota: median $54 across 33 hospitalsSD$54Iowa: median $44 across 87 hospitalsIA$44Indiana: median $34 across 87 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $63 across 116 hospitalsOH$63Pennsylvania: median $44 across 109 hospitalsPA$44New Jersey: median $41 across 53 hospitalsNJ$41Connecticut: median $74 across 22 hospitalsCT$74Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $100 across 164 hospitalsCA$100Utah: median $42 across 32 hospitalsUT$42Colorado: median $56 across 61 hospitalsCO$56Nebraska: median $51 across 73 hospitalsNE$51Missouri: median $40 across 68 hospitalsMO$40Kentucky: median $30 across 46 hospitalsKY$30West Virginia: median $42 across 29 hospitalsWV$42Virginia: median $30 across 59 hospitalsVA$30Maryland: median $209 across 33 hospitalsMD$209Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $79 across 33 hospitalsAZ$79New Mexico: median $57 across 16 hospitalsNM$57Kansas: median $28 across 65 hospitalsKS$28Arkansas: median $26 across 26 hospitalsAR$26Tennessee: median $29 across 60 hospitalsTN$29North Carolina: median $44 across 69 hospitalsNC$44South Carolina: median $62 across 41 hospitalsSC$62Oklahoma: median $44 across 48 hospitalsOK$44Louisiana: median $33 across 48 hospitalsLA$33Mississippi: median $24 across 30 hospitalsMS$24Alabama: median $44 across 28 hospitalsAL$44Georgia: median $40 across 82 hospitalsGA$40Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $59 across 190 hospitalsTX$59Florida: median $62 across 107 hospitalsFL$62
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $52. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD33$209+302%$88 – $299
Massachusetts MA46$101+94%$89 – $136
North Dakota ND21$100+92%$78 – $157
California CA164$100+92%$50 – $149
Alaska AK18$95+83%$68 – $156
Arizona AZ33$79+51%$33 – $203
Connecticut CT22$74+42%$64 – $89
Nevada NV15$70+35%$26 – $129
Oregon OR50$63+21%$40 – $107
Vermont VT11$63+21%$53 – $75
Ohio OH116$63+21%$39 – $93
Washington WA68$62+20%$52 – $95
Florida FL107$62+19%$46 – $139
South Carolina SC41$62+19%$42 – $66
Wyoming WY15$61+17%$22 – $79
Minnesota MN97$61+17%$42 – $80
Wisconsin WI86$59+13%$44 – $77
Texas TX190$59+13%$25 – $86
New York NY104$58+11%$36 – $105
New Mexico NM16$57+10%$38 – $94
Colorado CO61$56+7%$30 – $86
South Dakota SD33$54+5%$40 – $68
Nebraska NE73$51−1%$35 – $80
Illinois IL106$51−3%$29 – $82
New Hampshire NH22$50−5%$37 – $79
Montana MT23$47−10%$34 – $68
Michigan MI89$46−12%$35 – $65
Maine ME27$46−12%$25 – $76
Idaho ID21$45−14%$38 – $89
North Carolina NC69$44−15%$38 – $70
Oklahoma OK48$44−15%$26 – $79
Iowa IA87$44−15%$29 – $59
Alabama AL28$44−15%$25 – $63
Pennsylvania PA109$44−16%$27 – $91
Utah UT32$42−19%$38 – $49
West Virginia WV29$42−19%$30 – $62
New Jersey NJ53$41−21%$32 – $63
Missouri MO68$40−23%$25 – $66
Georgia GA82$40−24%$32 – $76
Indiana IN87$34−35%$23 – $47
Louisiana LA48$33−37%$18 – $55
Kentucky KY46$30−43%$19 – $52
Virginia VA59$30−43%$21 – $50
Tennessee TN60$29−45%$16 – $50
Kansas KS65$28−46%$20 – $45
Arkansas AR26$26−49%$26 – $44
Mississippi MS30$24−54%$14 – $46
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $52.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,965$53$29 – $98
Children’s51$62$32 – $107
Critical access731$49$32 – $80
Ownership
For-profit326$58$30 – $128
Government510$46$29 – $81
Non-profit1,911$53$30 – $90
System affiliation
Part of a system2,244$53$30 – $93
Independent510$51$29 – $88

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$90
Median cash price$52
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

1,873 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $55 and the average of the middle 60% is $56; most fall between $31 and $94.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,873 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
$23$35$55$84$125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($23 vs $125).

Of the 1,974 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,873 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,754 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (70%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,888 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,754
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 — excluded92
Hospitals that filed this code2,888

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 Ancillary Services family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Medical Nutrition Assmt&Ivntj Indiv Each 15 Mi.

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, “First nutrition counseling visit, each 15 minutes (CPT 97802) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97802-first-nutrition-counseling-visit-each-15-minutes