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Preparing a Written Psychiatric Report

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 90889

Covers a clinician's time spent writing up a patient's mental health status, history, treatment and progress for someone outside the treating team — for example an agency, a school, an employer's health service or an insurer. The work is done away from the patient, who does not need to be present. Reports prepared for courts or legal proceedings are handled as a different service.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Preparing a Written Psychiatric Report cost?

$70.79

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $70.79 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $72.44 from a physician practice, and about $43.65 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$72.44$63.10 to $95.50
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$43.65$43.65 to $67.61

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $44 · 10th to 90th $44 to $68Professionalmedian $72 · 10th to 90th $44 to $155
$50$100$200$500facility $44professional $72

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
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$67.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$83.18
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$575.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$208.93
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$43.65
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$43.65
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$190.55
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$102.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$208.93

Where Massachusetts sits

Rates are fairly even across states for this service. 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.

Massachusetts· 16th of 51

$70.79

ND $91.20NM $64.57

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.