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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

Tennessee 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?

$16.60

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16.60 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $16.60 from a physician practice, and about $23.99 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 5 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$16.60$14.45 to $19.50
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$23.99$15.14 to $33.11

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $24 · 10th to 90th $14 to $117Professionalmedian $17 · 10th to 90th $14 to $23
$10$20$50$100facility $24professional $17

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
$13.80
Typical High
$158.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$21.88
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.14
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$47.86
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$64.57
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$39.81
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$177.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$44.67
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$28.18

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 39th of 51

$16.60

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.