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Self-care education and training, one patient

CPT 98960the billing code this page is about

Instruction by a non-physician health professional teaching one patient how to manage a health condition at home; billed per 30 minutes of training.

Hospitals typically charge $76 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,223 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $77. Most fall between $41 and $123 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,223
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 1,223 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
$27$47$76$111$175

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($27 vs $175).

How the prices are spread

$21 – $26: 60 hospitals$21$26 – $34: 57 hospitals$34 – $43: 89 hospitals$34$43 – $55: 132 hospitals$55 – $71: 161 hospitals$55$71 – $90: 193 hospitals$90 – $116: 186 hospitals$90$116 – $148: 99 hospitals$148 – $190: 75 hospitals$148$190 – $243: 50 hospitals$190median $76price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,102 of 1,223 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$21$2660
$26$3457
$34$4389
$43$55132
$55$71161
$71$90193
$90$116186
$116$14899
$148$19075
$190$24350

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $76.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $50 across 13 hospitalsME$50Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $73 across 13 hospitalsNH$73Washington: median $65 across 21 hospitalsWA$65Idaho: median $76 across 15 hospitalsID$76Montana: 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 $83 across 37 hospitalsMN$83Illinois: median $67 across 47 hospitalsIL$67Wisconsin: median $78 across 51 hospitalsWI$78Michigan: median $47 across 25 hospitalsMI$47New York: median $93 across 72 hospitalsNY$93Massachusetts: median $84 across 23 hospitalsMA$84Oregon: median $67 across 32 hospitalsOR$67Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $97 across 11 hospitalsSD$97Iowa: median $74 across 32 hospitalsIA$74Indiana: median $22 across 36 hospitalsIN$22Ohio: median $82 across 45 hospitalsOH$82Pennsylvania: median $88 across 46 hospitalsPA$88New Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $86 across 125 hospitalsCA$86Utah: median $89 across 25 hospitalsUT$89Colorado: median $87 across 29 hospitalsCO$87Nebraska: median $69 across 20 hospitalsNE$69Missouri: median $60 across 28 hospitalsMO$60Kentucky: median $52 across 18 hospitalsKY$52West Virginia: median $71 across 18 hospitalsWV$71Virginia: median $100 across 23 hospitalsVA$100Maryland: median $270 across 10 hospitalsMD$270Delaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $166 across 11 hospitalsAZ$166New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $28 across 20 hospitalsKS$28Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $70 across 24 hospitalsTN$70North Carolina: median $50 across 53 hospitalsNC$50South Carolina: median $103 across 16 hospitalsSC$103Oklahoma: median $47 across 21 hospitalsOK$47Louisiana: median $40 across 20 hospitalsLA$40Mississippi: median $31 across 12 hospitalsMS$31Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $69 across 40 hospitalsGA$69Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $95 across 86 hospitalsTX$95Florida: median $64 across 22 hospitalsFL$64
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $76. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Maryland MD10$270+257%$62 – $522
Arizona AZ11$166+119%$74 – $166
South Carolina SC16$103+36%$103 – $103
Virginia VA23$100+31%$22 – $151
South Dakota SD11$97+28%$48 – $97
Texas TX86$95+26%$44 – $161
New York NY72$93+23%$39 – $121
Utah UT25$89+17%$76 – $95
Pennsylvania PA46$88+16%$30 – $196
Colorado CO29$87+15%$53 – $132
California CA125$86+13%$57 – $203
Massachusetts MA23$84+11%$60 – $104
Minnesota MN37$83+9%$62 – $117
Ohio OH45$82+8%$40 – $106
Wisconsin WI51$78+3%$61 – $107
Idaho ID15$760%$56 – $93
Iowa IA32$74−2%$47 – $127
New Hampshire NH13$73−3%$14 – $167
West Virginia WV18$71−6%$40 – $114
Tennessee TN24$70−8%$29 – $78
Georgia GA40$69−9%$39 – $155
Nebraska NE20$69−9%$36 – $123
Oregon OR32$67−11%$57 – $140
Illinois IL47$67−11%$41 – $105
Washington WA21$65−14%$63 – $115
Florida FL22$64−15%$44 – $103
Missouri MO28$60−21%$28 – $111
Kentucky KY18$52−32%$24 – $105
Maine ME13$50−34%$29 – $102
North Carolina NC53$50−34%$35 – $82
Michigan MI25$47−37%$44 – $78
Oklahoma OK21$47−38%$47 – $68
Louisiana LA20$40−47%$25 – $72
Mississippi MS12$31−59%$23 – $53
Kansas KS20$28−63%$18 – $66
Indiana IN36$22−71%$14 – $53
North Dakota ND9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not 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 $76.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care883$78$41 – $127
Children’s43$105$41 – $332
Critical access294$70$42 – $106
Ownership
For-profit111$95$42 – $189
Government198$64$38 – $100
Non-profit911$78$43 – $121
System affiliation
Part of a system1,005$78$42 – $125
Independent218$67$40 – $113

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$121
Median cash price$76
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

891 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $80 and the average of the middle 60% is $81; most fall between $44 and $126.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 891 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
$29$50$80$114$175

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($29 vs $175).

Of the 954 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 891 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 3 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 39 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,223 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,333 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,223
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded73
Hospitals that filed this code1,333

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 Education&Training Pt Self-Mgmt Nqhp Indiv Pt.

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, “Self-care education and training, one patient (CPT 98960) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-98960-self-care-education-and-training-one-patient