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Giving a Vaccine Injection

Washington 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?

$31.62

Typical physician fee. In Washington, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $31.62 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $18.20 to $47.86.

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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $32 · 10th to 90th $11 to $85
$10$20$50$100professional $32

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
$10.96
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$85.11
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$40.74
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$26.30
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$64.57
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$60.26
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$39.81
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$66.07
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$48.98

Where Washington 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.

Washington· 11th of 51

$31.62

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.