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Group nutrition counseling, each 30 minutes

CPT 97804the billing code this page is about

Diet and nutrition counseling delivered to a group of two or more people. Each unit covers 30 minutes of group session time.

Hospitals typically charge $36 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,888 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $37. Most fall between $19 and $65 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,888
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,888 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
$14$22$36$56$95

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($14 vs $95).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $14: 86 hospitals$11$14 – $18: 129 hospitals$18 – $23: 191 hospitals$18$23 – $29: 223 hospitals$29 – $37: 238 hospitals$29$37 – $47: 312 hospitals$47 – $60: 182 hospitals$47$60 – $77: 156 hospitals$77 – $98: 102 hospitals$77$98 – $126: 81 hospitals$98median $36price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,700 of 1,888 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$1486
$14$18129
$18$23191
$23$29223
$29$37238
$37$47312
$47$60182
$60$77156
$77$98102
$98$12681

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $36.

Alaska: median $59 across 12 hospitalsAK$59Maine: median $32 across 21 hospitalsME$32Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $30 across 12 hospitalsNH$30Washington: median $33 across 43 hospitalsWA$33Idaho: median $31 across 13 hospitalsID$31Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: median $52 across 11 hospitalsND$52Minnesota: median $29 across 42 hospitalsMN$29Illinois: median $41 across 74 hospitalsIL$41Wisconsin: median $35 across 65 hospitalsWI$35Michigan: median $31 across 70 hospitalsMI$31New York: median $33 across 83 hospitalsNY$33Massachusetts: median $62 across 27 hospitalsMA$62Oregon: median $31 across 36 hospitalsOR$31Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $43 across 15 hospitalsSD$43Iowa: median $38 across 56 hospitalsIA$38Indiana: median $27 across 67 hospitalsIN$27Ohio: median $59 across 95 hospitalsOH$59Pennsylvania: median $25 across 80 hospitalsPA$25New Jersey: median $21 across 47 hospitalsNJ$21Connecticut: median $45 across 18 hospitalsCT$45Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $50 across 110 hospitalsCA$50Utah: median $27 across 13 hospitalsUT$27Colorado: median $40 across 41 hospitalsCO$40Nebraska: median $40 across 36 hospitalsNE$40Missouri: median $34 across 40 hospitalsMO$34Kentucky: median $21 across 36 hospitalsKY$21West Virginia: median $30 across 18 hospitalsWV$30Virginia: median $28 across 46 hospitalsVA$28Maryland: median $102 across 30 hospitalsMD$102Delaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $42 across 21 hospitalsAZ$42New Mexico: median $21 across 11 hospitalsNM$21Kansas: median $22 across 32 hospitalsKS$22Arkansas: median $14 across 16 hospitalsAR$14Tennessee: median $20 across 45 hospitalsTN$20North Carolina: median $38 across 49 hospitalsNC$38South Carolina: median $45 across 30 hospitalsSC$45Oklahoma: median $30 across 23 hospitalsOK$30Louisiana: median $20 across 33 hospitalsLA$20Mississippi: median $16 across 16 hospitalsMS$16Alabama: median $24 across 19 hospitalsAL$24Georgia: median $26 across 72 hospitalsGA$26Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $42 across 145 hospitalsTX$42Florida: median $66 across 70 hospitalsFL$66
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $36. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD30$102+187%$60 – $126
Florida FL70$66+86%$29 – $91
Massachusetts MA27$62+74%$42 – $131
Alaska AK12$59+66%$47 – $181
Ohio OH95$59+65%$31 – $68
North Dakota ND11$52+46%$46 – $81
California CA110$50+42%$30 – $106
South Carolina SC30$45+26%$20 – $64
Connecticut CT18$45+25%$33 – $61
South Dakota SD15$43+21%$29 – $55
Texas TX145$42+19%$16 – $83
Arizona AZ21$42+18%$19 – $215
Illinois IL74$41+15%$26 – $77
Nebraska NE36$40+13%$21 – $66
Colorado CO41$40+12%$29 – $77
North Carolina NC49$38+7%$19 – $48
Iowa IA56$38+6%$20 – $47
Wisconsin WI65$35−1%$24 – $44
Missouri MO40$34−5%$22 – $52
New York NY83$33−6%$17 – $73
Washington WA43$33−7%$26 – $54
Maine ME21$32−11%$15 – $100
Idaho ID13$31−12%$27 – $41
Oregon OR36$31−12%$20 – $46
Michigan MI70$31−14%$16 – $44
West Virginia WV18$30−16%$22 – $61
Oklahoma OK23$30−16%$19 – $55
New Hampshire NH12$30−17%$11 – $47
Minnesota MN42$29−18%$22 – $55
Virginia VA46$28−23%$11 – $49
Indiana IN67$27−23%$15 – $39
Utah UT13$27−24%$24 – $32
Georgia GA72$26−28%$20 – $42
Pennsylvania PA80$25−29%$13 – $55
Alabama AL19$24−33%$13 – $32
Kansas KS32$22−37%$11 – $61
New Jersey NJ47$21−40%$18 – $55
New Mexico NM11$21−41%$19 – $68
Kentucky KY36$21−42%$18 – $46
Louisiana LA33$20−43%$13 – $33
Tennessee TN45$20−44%$7 – $38
Mississippi MS16$16−55%$10 – $26
Arkansas AR16$14−62%$7 – $38
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not 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 $36.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,453$35$19 – $66
Children’s41$45$26 – $81
Critical access389$38$22 – $58
Ownership
For-profit201$39$19 – $98
Government312$30$19 – $54
Non-profit1,370$37$19 – $65
System affiliation
Part of a system1,582$36$20 – $66
Independent306$33$18 – $63

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$62
Median cash price$36
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

1,329 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $38 and the average of the middle 60% is $38; most fall between $20 and $66.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,329 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
$15$23$38$56$92

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $92).

Of the 1,395 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,329 gave a usable cash price; 19 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

1,888 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,973 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,888
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded54
Hospitals that filed this code1,973

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 Therapy Grp2/ Indiv Ea 30 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, “Group nutrition counseling, each 30 minutes (CPT 97804) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-97804-group-nutrition-counseling-each-30-minutes