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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

Montana 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?

$18.62

Typical negotiated rate. In Montana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.62 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $18.20 from a physician practice, and about $36.31 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$18.20$15.49 to $21.38
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$36.31$20.42 to $38.02

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $36 · 10th to 90th $16 to $39Professionalmedian $18 · 10th to 90th $14 to $35
$10$20$50facility $36professional $18

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$22.39
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64,565.42
Median
$64,565.42
Typical High
$89,125.09
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$35.48
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$35.48
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$34.67
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$39.81
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$39.81
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$32.36
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$79.43
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$28.84

Where Montana 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.

Montana· 10th of 51

$18.62

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.