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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

Ohio 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?

$18.20

Typical negotiated rate. In Ohio, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $18.20 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $17.78 from a physician practice, and about $37.15 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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$17.78$16.60 to $23.99
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$37.15$24.55 to $46.77

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $37 · 10th to 90th $14 to $98Professionalmedian $18 · 10th to 90th $13 to $32
$20$50$100facility $37professional $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
$13.49
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$46.77
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$13.49
Typical High
$15.85
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16.98
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$25.12
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$23.99
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$31.62
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$128.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$43.65
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$120.23
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$43.65
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$46.77
SummaCare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$22.91
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$21.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$25.12
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
GO · Occupational therapy plan
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$17.38

Where Ohio 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.

Ohio· 38th of 51

$18.20

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.