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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Kansas 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 October 2026.

How much does Giving a Vaccine Injection cost?

$14.13

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $14.13 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $20.89 from a physician practice, and about $8.13 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$20.89$15.85 to $22.91
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8.13$7.76 to $8.13

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8 · 10th to 90th $8 to $23Professionalmedian $21 · 10th to 90th $14 to $29
$10$20$50$100facility $8professional $21

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$22.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$20.89
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$21.88
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$8.13
Typical High
$8.13
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$32.36
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$70.79
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$30.90
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$134.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$35.48
4 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$10.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$4.17
Typical High
$4.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$1.51
Median
$3.09
Typical High
$3.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$1.00
Median
$2.04
Typical High
$2.04

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in Vermont than in Kansas. 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.

Kansas· 51st of 51

$14.13

VT $75.86KS $14.13

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.