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Home monitoring device and data for behavior therapy

CPT 98978the billing code this page is about

Supply of a device that records and sends cognitive behavioral therapy monitoring data from home; billed once per 30 days when data is collected on at least 16 days.

Hospitals typically charge $68 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 163 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $63. Most fall between $44 and $112 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
163
States
26
Filings dated
Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 163 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
$41$46$68$84$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($41 vs $134).

How the prices are spread

$34 – $42: 14 hospitals$34$42 – $53: 47 hospitals$53 – $67: 7 hospitals$53$67 – $83: 42 hospitals$83 – $104: 11 hospitals$83$104 – $131: 15 hospitals$131 – $163: 6 hospitals$131$163 – $205: 2 hospitals$205 – $256: 2 hospitals$205$256 – $320: 1 hospitals$256median $68price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (147 of 163 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$34$4214
$42$5347
$53$677
$67$8342
$83$10411
$104$13115
$131$1636
$163$2052
$205$2562
$256$3201

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$38
Median cash price$68
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.79×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $68.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $84 across 13 hospitalsIL$84Wisconsin: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $44 across 17 hospitalsNY$44Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $50 across 17 hospitalsIN$50Ohio: median $73 across 14 hospitalsOH$73Pennsylvania: median $244 across 13 hospitalsPA$244New Jersey: median $41 across 11 hospitalsNJ$41Connecticut: 4 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 $68 across 20 hospitalsCA$68Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceTXFlorida: median $125 across 13 hospitalsFL$125
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $68. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$244+258%$72 – $396
Florida FL13$125+83%$91 – $134
Illinois IL13$84+23%$51 – $84
Ohio OH14$73+7%$73 – $73
California CA20$680%$68 – $83
Indiana IN17$50−27%$43 – $60
New York NY17$44−35%$44 – $47
New Jersey NJ11$41−39%$41 – $44
Wisconsin WI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $68.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care145$68$44 – $108
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government21$55$44 – $127
Non-profit131$68$44 – $84
System affiliation
Part of a system152$68$44 – $85
Independent11fewer than 20 hospitals

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$140
Median cash price$68
Cash as a share of list, median hospital52%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 48%. 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.

How complete is this

163 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 166 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted163
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here3
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 — excluded0
Hospitals that filed this code166

Sections not shown for this setting

  • 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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 RTM DEV SPLY CBT 16-30 D.

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, “Home monitoring device and data for behavior therapy (CPT 98978) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-98978-home-monitoring-device-and-data-for-behavior-therapy