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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

South Dakota 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?

$17.78

Typical physician fee. In South Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $17.78 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $15.14 to $21.88.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $18 · 10th to 90th $15 to $31Professionalmedian $18 · 10th to 90th $14 to $28
$10$20$50facility $18professional $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
$15.85
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$15.85
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$21.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$33.11
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$37.15
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$141.25
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$39.81
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$27.54
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$43.65
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$47.86
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.44
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$35.48

Where South Dakota 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.

South Dakota· 23rd of 51

$17.78

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.