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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

Massachusetts 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 July 2026.

How much does Cognitive Skills Therapy Session cost?

$20.42

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $20.42 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $20.42 from a physician practice, and about $19.50 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 9 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$20.42$16.60 to $33.11
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$19.50$17.78 to $34.67

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $19 · 10th to 90th $12 to $63Professionalmedian $20 · 10th to 90th $14 to $51
$10$20$50$100$200facility $19professional $20

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
$17.78
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$39.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$25.12
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$131.83
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$223.87
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$58.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$95.50
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$69.18
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.23
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$38.02
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$42.66
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$56.23
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$138.04
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$131.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$19.50
Typical High
$37.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$60.26

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 1.6 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.

Massachusetts· 5th of 51

$20.42

MN $25.70DE $15.85

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.