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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Tennessee 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?

$19.95

Typical physician fee. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $19.95 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $10.00 to $36.31.

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 $20 · 10th to 90th $10 to $46
$10$20$50$100professional $20

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
$15.85
Typical High
$45.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$30.90
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$25.70
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$134.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$43.65

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 41st of 51

$19.95

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.