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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Virginia 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?

$19.50

Typical physician fee. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $19.50 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $10.00 to $31.62.

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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $19 · 10th to 90th $10 to $55
$10$100$1K$10Kprofessional $19

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
$12.30
Typical High
$42.66
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$37.15
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$120.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$29.51
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$32.36
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$14.13
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$36.31
Typical High
$10,000.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$38.90

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 43rd of 51

$19.50

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.