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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Iowa 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?

$33.88

Typical physician fee. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $33.88 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $18.62 to $47.86.

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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $34 · 10th to 90th $12 to $78
$10$20$50$100professional $34

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
$12.02
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$77.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
25 · Same-day visit
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$19.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$53.70
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$67.61
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$46.77
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$35.48
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$57.54

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 8th of 51

$33.88

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.