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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

Nebraska 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?

$30.90

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $30.90 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $30.90 from a physician practice, and about $52.48 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$30.90$22.39 to $34.67
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$52.48$45.71 to $257

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $52 · 10th to 90th $22 to $347Professionalmedian $31 · 10th to 90th $18 to $41
$20$50$100$200$500facility $52professional $31

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
$22.39
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$22.39
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$630.96
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$39.81
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$66.07
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$58.88
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$57.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$17.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$60.26
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
$17.38

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 4th of 51

$30.90

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.