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Procedure price report · Telehealth (includes telephone calls, online communication, remote monitoring and surveillance)

Video visit, new patient, low complexity (about 30 minutes)

CPT 98001the billing code this page is about

Live audio and video telemedicine visit with a new patient involving low-complexity medical decision making, typically about 30 minutes of total time on the day of the visit.

Hospitals typically charge $165 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 423 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $160. Most fall between $89 and $232 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
423
States
47
Filings dated
May 2025 – 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 423 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
$71$95$165$217$304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($71 vs $304).

How the prices are spread

$51 – $62: 15 hospitals$51$62 – $75: 16 hospitals$75 – $91: 45 hospitals$75$91 – $111: 34 hospitals$111 – $134: 32 hospitals$111$134 – $163: 43 hospitals$163 – $198: 80 hospitals$163$198 – $240: 59 hospitals$240 – $291: 26 hospitals$240$291 – $354: 31 hospitals$291median $165price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (381 of 423 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$51$6215
$62$7516
$75$9145
$91$11134
$111$13432
$134$16343
$163$19880
$198$24059
$240$29126
$291$35431

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $165.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $180 across 12 hospitalsWA$180Idaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $232 across 31 hospitalsMN$232Illinois: median $101 across 17 hospitalsIL$101Wisconsin: median $188 across 33 hospitalsWI$188Michigan: median $94 across 29 hospitalsMI$94New York: median $115 across 22 hospitalsNY$115Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $165 across 13 hospitalsOR$165Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $190 across 18 hospitalsIA$190Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $133 across 14 hospitalsOH$133Pennsylvania: median $52 across 15 hospitalsPA$52New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $212 across 22 hospitalsCA$212Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $78 across 14 hospitalsWV$78Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $218 across 13 hospitalsSC$218Oklahoma: median $150 across 13 hospitalsOK$150Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $165. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN31$232+41%$160 – $304
South Carolina SC13$218+32%$218 – $218
California CA22$212+29%$212 – $212
Iowa IA18$190+15%$172 – $190
Wisconsin WI33$188+14%$156 – $314
Washington WA12$180+9%$168 – $273
Oregon OR13$1650%$138 – $239
Oklahoma OK13$150−9%$150 – $150
Ohio OH14$133−20%$71 – $416
New York NY22$115−30%$85 – $271
Illinois IL17$101−39%$87 – $157
Michigan MI29$94−43%$89 – $188
West Virginia WV14$78−53%$78 – $115
Pennsylvania PA15$52−68%$49 – $60
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX1not 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 $165.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care270$165$87 – $218
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access144$163$93 – $243
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government82$168$95 – $244
Non-profit323$165$89 – $225
System affiliation
Part of a system325$172$89 – $230
Independent98$142$86 – $237

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$232
Median cash price$165
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

273 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $182 and the average of the middle 60% is $172; most fall between $104 and $230.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 273 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
$87$115$182$218$304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $304).

Of the 291 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 273 gave a usable cash price; 4 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

423 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 460 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted423
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
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 — excluded32
Hospitals that filed this code460

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 Telehealth (includes telephone calls, online communication, remote monitoring and surveillance) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Synchronous Audio-Video Visit New Low Mdm 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, “Video visit, new patient, low complexity (about 30 minutes) (CPT 98001) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-98001-video-visit-new-patient-low-complexity-about-30-minutes