Procedure price report · Consultation, evaluation, and preventative care

Group preventive health counseling, about 60 minutes

CPT code CPT 99412the billing code this page is about

Counseling about health risks and prevention delivered to a group of patients; this code covers roughly 60 minutes of group session time.

Hospitals typically charge $45 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 279 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $49. Most fall between $25 and $90 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
279
States
44
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 279 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
$15$27$45$82$143

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($15 vs $143).

How the prices are spread

$11 – $14: 10 hospitals$11$14 – $19: 12 hospitals$19 – $25: 22 hospitals$19$25 – $34: 38 hospitals$34 – $45: 53 hospitals$34$45 – $60: 25 hospitals$60 – $79: 35 hospitals$60$79 – $105: 27 hospitals$105 – $140: 15 hospitals$105$140 – $186: 16 hospitals$140median $45price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (253 of 279 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$11$1410
$14$1912
$19$2522
$25$3438
$34$4553
$45$6025
$60$7935
$79$10527
$105$14015
$140$18616

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $45.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $45 across 14 hospitalsIL$45Wisconsin: median $67 across 19 hospitalsWI$67Michigan: median $36 across 26 hospitalsMI$36New York: median $55 across 33 hospitalsNY$55Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $35 across 15 hospitalsOR$35Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $45 across 16 hospitalsIA$45Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $9 across 11 hospitalsPA$9New Jersey: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $41 across 16 hospitalsGA$41Hawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $45. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI19$67+51%$25 – $67
New York NY33$55+24%$24 – $96
Iowa IA16$450%$45 – $63
Illinois IL14$450%$28 – $137
Georgia GA16$41−9%$41 – $41
Michigan MI26$36−20%$25 – $82
Oregon OR15$35−21%$32 – $45
Pennsylvania PA11$9−81%$7 – $10
California CA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK1not 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 $45.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care211$45$27 – $90
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access61$28$22 – $78
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government34$66$39 – $136
Non-profit226$45$25 – $85
System affiliation
Part of a system224$43$25 – $84
Independent55$51$32 – $136

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$79
Median cash price$45
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

202 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $45 and the average of the middle 60% is $50; most fall between $28 and $84.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 202 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
$25$31$45$79$134

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($25 vs $134).

Of the 214 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 202 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

279 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 311 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted279
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here6
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 — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code311

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PREVENTIVE COUNSELING GROUP.

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, “Group preventive health counseling, about 60 minutes (CPT 99412) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99412-group-preventive-health-counseling-about-60-minutes