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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Connecticut rates for HCPCS 90471

The clinician's work of giving an injected vaccine: checking the patient, preparing and administering the dose, and observing afterwards. It covers the first injected vaccine at a visit, and any further vaccines given the same day are billed separately. The vaccine product itself is charged on its own.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Giving a Vaccine Injection cost?

$18.62

Typical physician fee. In Connecticut, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.62 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $10.96 to $20.42.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $19 · 10th to 90th $11 to $32
$10$20$50professional $19

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$15.49
Typical High
$18.62
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$45.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$44.67
ConnectiCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$30.20
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$51.29

Where Connecticut sits

The same service costs 4.5 times more in Massachusetts than in Washington, DC. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Connecticut· 44th of 51

$18.62

MA $44.67DC $10.00

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.