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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

Arizona rates for HCPCS 97129

This therapy service focuses on improving mental skills such as attention, memory, reasoning, problem-solving, or organizing tasks. A qualified professional works one-on-one with the patient, often to help recover skills after a brain injury or to manage symptoms from another condition affecting thinking.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Cognitive Skills Therapy Session cost?

$17.78

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.78 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $17.78 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$17.78$11.22 to $18.20
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$35.48$18.20 to $83.18

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $35 · 10th to 90th $16 to $112Professionalmedian $18 · 10th to 90th $9 to $25
$10$20$50$100facility $35professional $18

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
$17.78
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$18.20
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$112.20
BCBS Arizona
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$10.47
Typical High
$15.14
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$33.11
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$100.00
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$34.67
1 more rate 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
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
GN · Speech therapy plan
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$30.20

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 3.3 times more in Alaska 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.

Arizona· 39th of 51

$17.78

AK $46.77DE $14.13

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.