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Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Health risk counseling, one person, about 15 minutes

CPT 99401the billing code this page is about

A one-on-one counseling session to help prevent illness or reduce health risks in a person without current symptoms; this code covers roughly 15 minutes of face-to-face time.

Hospitals typically charge $60 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 869 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $62. Most fall between $29 and $101 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
869
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 869 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
$19$34$60$90$125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($19 vs $125).

How the prices are spread

$14 – $18: 37 hospitals$14$18 – $23: 40 hospitals$23 – $30: 65 hospitals$23$30 – $38: 70 hospitals$38 – $49: 86 hospitals$38$49 – $62: 115 hospitals$62 – $80: 103 hospitals$62$80 – $102: 144 hospitals$102 – $131: 95 hospitals$102$131 – $168: 33 hospitals$131median $60price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (788 of 869 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$14$1837
$18$2340
$23$3065
$30$3870
$38$4986
$49$62115
$62$80103
$80$102144
$102$13195
$131$16833

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $60.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $65 across 18 hospitalsME$65Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $37 across 10 hospitalsNH$37Washington: median $73 across 24 hospitalsWA$73Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $41 across 10 hospitalsMT$41North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $79 across 28 hospitalsMN$79Illinois: median $41 across 31 hospitalsIL$41Wisconsin: median $39 across 45 hospitalsWI$39Michigan: median $53 across 48 hospitalsMI$53New York: median $83 across 65 hospitalsNY$83Massachusetts: median $91 across 20 hospitalsMA$91Oregon: median $68 across 29 hospitalsOR$68Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $70 across 30 hospitalsIA$70Indiana: median $31 across 21 hospitalsIN$31Ohio: median $81 across 70 hospitalsOH$81Pennsylvania: median $43 across 32 hospitalsPA$43New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $41 across 41 hospitalsCA$41Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $77 across 17 hospitalsCO$77Nebraska: median $68 across 12 hospitalsNE$68Missouri: median $43 across 14 hospitalsMO$43Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $31 across 20 hospitalsWV$31Virginia: median $123 across 14 hospitalsVA$123Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $60 across 19 hospitalsKS$60Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $45 across 12 hospitalsNC$45South Carolina: median $47 across 11 hospitalsSC$47Oklahoma: median $41 across 18 hospitalsOK$41Louisiana: median $22 across 11 hospitalsLA$22Mississippi: median $41 across 12 hospitalsMS$41Alabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $19 across 19 hospitalsGA$19Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $84 across 19 hospitalsTX$84Florida: median $84 across 29 hospitalsFL$84
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $60. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA14$123+105%$26 – $123
Massachusetts MA20$91+52%$44 – $145
Texas TX19$84+41%$53 – $123
Florida FL29$84+40%$49 – $194
New York NY65$83+38%$32 – $140
Ohio OH70$81+34%$35 – $104
Minnesota MN28$79+32%$53 – $104
Colorado CO17$77+27%$33 – $119
Washington WA24$73+22%$66 – $93
Iowa IA30$70+16%$53 – $70
Nebraska NE12$68+14%$60 – $90
Oregon OR29$68+13%$37 – $70
Maine ME18$65+9%$17 – $111
Kansas KS19$600%$25 – $89
Michigan MI48$53−12%$30 – $83
South Carolina SC11$47−21%$47 – $56
North Carolina NC12$45−25%$23 – $93
Missouri MO14$43−28%$9 – $51
Pennsylvania PA32$43−28%$16 – $55
Illinois IL31$41−31%$33 – $89
Montana MT10$41−31%$25 – $58
Oklahoma OK18$41−31%$24 – $58
California CA41$41−32%$19 – $82
Mississippi MS12$41−32%$34 – $108
Wisconsin WI45$39−35%$16 – $83
New Hampshire NH10$37−39%$28 – $76
West Virginia WV20$31−48%$24 – $88
Indiana IN21$31−49%$19 – $84
Louisiana LA11$22−64%$20 – $42
Georgia GA19$19−69%$12 – $19
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not 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 $60.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care577$59$27 – $103
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access274$60$33 – $98
Ownership
For-profit63$53$26 – $84
Government167$60$37 – $95
Non-profit634$60$26 – $104
System affiliation
Part of a system659$60$26 – $103
Independent210$62$34 – $100

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$84
Median cash price$60
Cash as a share of list, median hospital68%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 32%. 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

565 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $64 and the average of the middle 60% is $65; most fall between $30 and $104.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 565 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
$22$35$64$93$129

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($22 vs $129).

Of the 603 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 565 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

869 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 938 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted869
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code938

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 Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Prev Med Cnsl&/Rsk Fctr Rdctj Indv Approx 15 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, “Health risk counseling, one person, about 15 minutes (CPT 99401) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99401-health-risk-counseling-one-person-about-15-minutes