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Automated Psychological Test, Result Only

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 96146

A standard psychological or thinking-skills questionnaire given through a computer or tablet, which scores itself and produces a result automatically. It covers giving the test and the automated score alone, without a clinician's separate interpretation and written report.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Automated Psychological Test, Result Only cost?

$2.69

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2.69 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.69 from a physician practice, and about $3.09 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$2.69$2.24 to $3.16
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3.09$2.19 to $39.81

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $78Professionalmedian $3 · 10th to 90th $2 to $5
$10$100$1Kfacility $3professional $3

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
$2.24
Median
$2.51
Typical High
$3.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.24
Median
$2.69
Typical High
$3.31
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$46.77
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$13.80
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$275.42
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.00
Median
$3.02
Typical High
$5.01
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.58
Median
$3.24
Typical High
$77.62
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.86
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$45.71
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.14
Median
$2.14
Typical High
$3.47
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5.37
Median
$8.32
Typical High
$46.77
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$13.80
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$114.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.63
Median
$2.75
Typical High
$3.55
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.82
Median
$2.14
Typical High
$3.55
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.74
Median
$1.74
Typical High
$2.04
7 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
$1.12
Median
$1.12
Typical High
$1.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.45
Median
$0.45
Typical High
$0.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AF · Specialist physician
Typical Low
$3.16
Median
$3.31
Typical High
$3.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
HO · Master's level
Typical Low
$2.34
Median
$2.51
Typical High
$2.51
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TD · Registered nurse
Typical Low
$2.69
Median
$2.82
Typical High
$2.82
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
HP · Doctoral level
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$77.62
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
HP · Doctoral level
Typical Low
$2.51
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$45.71

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 2.2 times more in North Dakota than in Kentucky. 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· 10th of 51

$2.69

ND $3.55KY $1.62

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.