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Automated Psychological Test, Result Only

South Carolina 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?

$2.00

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2.00 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2.00 from a physician practice, and about $35.48 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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$2.00$1.82 to $2.24
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$35.48$2.04 to $42.66

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $35 · 10th to 90th $2 to $76Professionalmedian $2 · 10th to 90th $2 to $5
$1$2$5$10$20$50$100facility $35professional $2

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
$1.70
Median
$1.91
Typical High
$2.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.70
Median
$1.91
Typical High
$2.24
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$0.95
Median
$1.12
Typical High
$1.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$0.38
Median
$0.45
Typical High
$0.45
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$83.18
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
29
Typical Low
$2.14
Median
$2.14
Typical High
$2.14
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.00
Median
$5.01
Typical High
$5.01
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2.24
Median
$2.45
Typical High
$6.03
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.55
Median
$1.82
Typical High
$2.51
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$190.55
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1.86
Median
$2.24
Typical High
$2.95
5 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
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$0.78
Median
$0.91
Typical High
$1.58
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$0.31
Median
$0.36
Typical High
$0.63
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
81 · Minimal assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$0.22
Median
$0.25
Typical High
$0.44
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
82 · Assistant surgeon, no resident
Typical Low
$0.22
Median
$0.25
Typical High
$0.44
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$0.22
Median
$0.25
Typical High
$0.44

Where South Carolina 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.

South Carolina· 41st of 51

$2.00

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.