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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 October 2026.

How much does Cognitive Skills Therapy Session cost?

$16.98

Typical physician fee. In Tennessee, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16.98 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $15.49 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $158 · 10th to 90th $19 to $324Professionalmedian $17 · 10th to 90th $14 to $141
$10$20$50$100$200facility $158professional $17

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$323.59
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$15.14
Typical High
$18.20
BCBS Tennessee
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$19.95
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$186.21
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$186.21
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$12.88
Typical High
$38.02
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$181.97
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$28.84
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
$17.78
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$30.20

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 46th of 51

$16.98

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.