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Patient education materials such as booklets

CPT 99071the billing code this page is about

Covers the cost of printed or recorded educational items, such as books, pamphlets, or recordings, given to the patient by the practice.

Hospitals typically charge $29 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 105 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $34. Most fall between $10 and $46 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
105
States
25
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – Aug 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 105 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
$7$18$29$46$54

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($7 vs $54).

How the prices are spread

$3 – $5: 3 hospitals$3$5 – $6: 2 hospitals$6 – $9: 7 hospitals$6$9 – $12: 5 hospitals$12 – $16: 4 hospitals$12$16 – $22: 5 hospitals$22 – $30: 26 hospitals$22$30 – $41: 16 hospitals$41 – $56: 25 hospitals$41$56 – $77: 3 hospitals$56median $29price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (96 of 105 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$3$53
$5$62
$6$97
$9$125
$12$164
$16$225
$22$3026
$30$4116
$41$5625
$56$773

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $29.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $29 across 12 hospitalsIA$29Indiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable pricePANew Jersey: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $46 across 22 hospitalsCA$46Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $28 across 10 hospitalsOK$28Louisiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $38 across 15 hospitalsTX$38Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $29. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA22$46+61%$46 – $46
Texas TX15$38+31%$38 – $38
Iowa IA12$290%$29 – $29
Oklahoma OK10$28−3%$28 – $28
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $29.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care90$29$14 – $46
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access14fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit11fewer than 20 hospitals
Government11fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit83$29$18 – $46
System affiliation
Part of a system82$30$18 – $46
Independent23$18$9 – $54

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$40
Median cash price$29
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

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

What the 110 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted105
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here1
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code110

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 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 Ancillary Services family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PATIENT EDUCATION MATERIALS.

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, “Patient education materials such as booklets (CPT 99071) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99071-patient-education-materials-such-as-booklets