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Extra Time, Group Health Behavior Counseling

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 96165

Covers additional time in a group session where a health professional helps people change habits, thoughts and behaviors that affect a physical health problem, such as sticking with treatment, coping with pain or adjusting to a diagnosis. The focus is the physical condition rather than treatment of a mental illness. It is billed in addition to the first block of time.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Extra Time, Group Health Behavior Counseling cost?

$6.31

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $6.31 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6.31 from a physician practice, and about $4.90 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 6 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$6.31$4.57 to $11.75
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4.90$4.47 to $8.91

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5 · 10th to 90th $4 to $16Professionalmedian $6 · 10th to 90th $4 to $15
$5$10$20facility $5professional $6

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
$4.47
Median
$4.47
Typical High
$4.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.55
Median
$4.37
Typical High
$5.75
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.55
Median
$3.72
Typical High
$3.72
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.75
Median
$10.23
Typical High
$15.85
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$41.69
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.41
Median
$10.72
Typical High
$18.62
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$30.20
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.59
Median
$10.96
Typical High
$17.38
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$5.25
Typical High
$9.12
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.89
Median
$6.31
Typical High
$25.70
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6.03
Median
$6.03
Typical High
$6.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$6.61
Typical High
$14.79

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 1.5 times more in Minnesota than in Delaware. 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.

Minnesota· 1st of 51

$6.31

MN $6.31DE $4.07

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.