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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Michigan 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?

$33.88

Typical negotiated rate. In Michigan, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $33.88 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $24.55 from a physician practice, and about $60.26 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$24.55$15.14 to $30.90
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$60.26$36.31 to $83.18

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $60 · 10th to 90th $23 to $126Professionalmedian $25 · 10th to 90th $12 to $45
$10$20$50$100$200facility $60professional $25

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
$12.02
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$15.14
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$12.02
Typical High
$29.51
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$29.51
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$53.70
Typical High
$112.20
BCBS Michigan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$36.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$39.81
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$125.89
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$58.88
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$39.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$204.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$33.88
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
$6.03
Typical High
$11.75
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$2.40
Typical High
$4.68
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$1.51
Median
$1.82
Typical High
$3.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$1.00
Median
$1.20
Typical High
$2.34

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 12th of 51

$33.88

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.