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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

New York 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?

$18.20

Typical negotiated rate. In New York, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.20 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $18.20 from a physician practice, and about $29.51 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$18.20$15.14 to $23.44
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$29.51$15.85 to $41.69

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $30 · 10th to 90th $14 to $234Professionalmedian $18 · 10th to 90th $14 to $41
$10$20$50$100$200facility $30professional $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
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$234.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$23.99
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$36.31
CDPHP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
CDPHP
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$33.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$70.79
Emblem Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$87.10
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$44.67
Excellus BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$21.38
Excellus BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$47.86
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$66.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$37.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$93.33
Univera
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$24.55
Univera
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$47.86

Where New York 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.

New York· 18th of 51

$18.20

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.