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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Missouri 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?

$18.62

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.62 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $18.20 from a physician practice, and about $25.70 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$18.20$11.75 to $22.91
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$25.70$14.13 to $61.66

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $26 · 10th to 90th $10 to $93Professionalmedian $18 · 10th to 90th $5 to $32
$5$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $26professional $18

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
$5.62
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$25.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$25.70
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$27.54
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$24.55
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$33.88
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.49
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$95.50
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$35.48
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$239.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$36.31
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
$2.51
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$5.01
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$1.00
Median
$2.00
Typical High
$2.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$0.76
Median
$1.51
Typical High
$1.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$0.50
Median
$1.00
Typical High
$1.00

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 48th of 51

$18.62

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.