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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Washington, DC 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?

$10.00

Typical physician fee. In Washington, DC, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $10.00 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $10.00 to $53.70.

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 $10 · 10th to 90th $10 to $95
$10$20$50$100$200professional $10

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
$10.00
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$23.99
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$208.93
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$30.20
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$33.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$57.54

Where Washington, DC 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.

Washington, DC· 51st of 51

$10.00

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.