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Follow-up nutrition counseling visit, each 15 minutes

CPT 97803the billing code this page is about

Repeat one-on-one nutrition assessment and diet counseling after the initial visit. Each unit covers 15 minutes of face-to-face time.

Hospitals typically charge $46 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,642 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $48. Most fall between $26 and $83 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,642
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 2,642 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
$20$30$46$72$117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $117).

How the prices are spread

$15 – $18: 104 hospitals$15$18 – $23: 164 hospitals$23 – $29: 244 hospitals$23$29 – $37: 364 hospitals$37 – $47: 342 hospitals$37$47 – $60: 372 hospitals$60 – $75: 317 hospitals$60$75 – $96: 231 hospitals$96 – $121: 128 hospitals$96$121 – $153: 112 hospitals$121median $46price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,378 of 2,642 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$15$18104
$18$23164
$23$29244
$29$37364
$37$47342
$47$60372
$60$75317
$75$96231
$96$121128
$121$153112

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $46.

Alaska: median $83 across 18 hospitalsAK$83Maine: median $35 across 28 hospitalsME$35Vermont: median $61 across 11 hospitalsVT$61New Hampshire: median $47 across 21 hospitalsNH$47Washington: median $57 across 68 hospitalsWA$57Idaho: median $45 across 21 hospitalsID$45Montana: median $41 across 22 hospitalsMT$41North Dakota: median $79 across 20 hospitalsND$79Minnesota: median $57 across 96 hospitalsMN$57Illinois: median $44 across 98 hospitalsIL$44Wisconsin: median $47 across 91 hospitalsWI$47Michigan: median $41 across 87 hospitalsMI$41New York: median $50 across 103 hospitalsNY$50Massachusetts: median $90 across 48 hospitalsMA$90Oregon: median $59 across 50 hospitalsOR$59Nevada: median $58 across 15 hospitalsNV$58Wyoming: median $49 across 15 hospitalsWY$49South Dakota: median $51 across 24 hospitalsSD$51Iowa: median $43 across 82 hospitalsIA$43Indiana: median $34 across 86 hospitalsIN$34Ohio: median $59 across 112 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $37 across 110 hospitalsPA$37New Jersey: median $34 across 54 hospitalsNJ$34Connecticut: median $65 across 22 hospitalsCT$65Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $89 across 161 hospitalsCA$89Utah: median $40 across 32 hospitalsUT$40Colorado: median $54 across 58 hospitalsCO$54Nebraska: median $48 across 68 hospitalsNE$48Missouri: median $39 across 63 hospitalsMO$39Kentucky: median $26 across 43 hospitalsKY$26West Virginia: median $39 across 27 hospitalsWV$39Virginia: median $26 across 57 hospitalsVA$26Maryland: median $227 across 33 hospitalsMD$227Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $63 across 28 hospitalsAZ$63New Mexico: median $48 across 15 hospitalsNM$48Kansas: median $22 across 63 hospitalsKS$22Arkansas: median $21 across 26 hospitalsAR$21Tennessee: median $25 across 47 hospitalsTN$25North Carolina: median $38 across 64 hospitalsNC$38South Carolina: median $50 across 39 hospitalsSC$50Oklahoma: median $34 across 39 hospitalsOK$34Louisiana: median $28 across 44 hospitalsLA$28Mississippi: median $22 across 27 hospitalsMS$22Alabama: median $38 across 25 hospitalsAL$38Georgia: median $36 across 77 hospitalsGA$36Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $58 across 181 hospitalsTX$58Florida: median $57 across 102 hospitalsFL$57
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $46. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD33$227+393%$112 – $299
Massachusetts MA48$90+96%$69 – $119
California CA161$89+94%$44 – $140
Alaska AK18$83+80%$63 – $151
North Dakota ND20$79+72%$61 – $129
Connecticut CT22$65+42%$52 – $85
Arizona AZ28$63+36%$30 – $168
Vermont VT11$61+32%$53 – $75
Ohio OH112$59+28%$29 – $76
Oregon OR50$59+27%$36 – $94
Nevada NV15$58+26%$22 – $113
Texas TX181$58+25%$24 – $90
Minnesota MN96$57+24%$35 – $75
Washington WA68$57+24%$47 – $81
Florida FL102$57+23%$33 – $132
Colorado CO58$54+17%$28 – $86
South Dakota SD24$51+11%$45 – $60
New York NY103$50+9%$30 – $95
South Carolina SC39$50+9%$31 – $55
Wyoming WY15$49+6%$26 – $72
Nebraska NE68$48+4%$32 – $71
New Mexico NM15$48+4%$31 – $83
New Hampshire NH21$47+2%$32 – $79
Wisconsin WI91$47+2%$32 – $66
Idaho ID21$45−3%$30 – $78
Illinois IL98$44−5%$27 – $64
Iowa IA82$43−6%$27 – $65
Michigan MI87$41−11%$31 – $56
Montana MT22$41−11%$30 – $57
Utah UT32$40−12%$40 – $43
West Virginia WV27$39−15%$28 – $59
Missouri MO63$39−16%$27 – $62
North Carolina NC64$38−18%$29 – $70
Alabama AL25$38−18%$21 – $54
Pennsylvania PA110$37−19%$20 – $64
Georgia GA77$36−21%$29 – $70
Maine ME28$35−24%$18 – $62
Oklahoma OK39$34−25%$27 – $78
New Jersey NJ54$34−26%$24 – $55
Indiana IN86$34−27%$21 – $41
Louisiana LA44$28−40%$15 – $47
Virginia VA57$26−44%$20 – $47
Kentucky KY43$26−44%$15 – $44
Tennessee TN47$25−45%$12 – $47
Kansas KS63$22−53%$16 – $37
Mississippi MS27$22−53%$14 – $31
Arkansas AR26$21−53%$20 – $38
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not 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 $46.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,900$47$26 – $89
Children’s50$55$31 – $99
Critical access685$45$27 – $70
Ownership
For-profit287$54$28 – $117
Government472$41$26 – $70
Non-profit1,876$47$26 – $82
System affiliation
Part of a system2,155$47$27 – $85
Independent487$45$25 – $72

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$79
Median cash price$46
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

1,818 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $50 and the average of the middle 60% is $51; most fall between $27 and $85.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,818 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
$20$32$50$75$117

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($20 vs $117).

Of the 1,911 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,818 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,642 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,763 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,642
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code2,763

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 Re-Assmt&Ivntj Indiv Ea 15 M.

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, “Follow-up nutrition counseling visit, each 15 minutes (CPT 97803) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97803-follow-up-nutrition-counseling-visit-each-15-minutes