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Cognitive Skills Therapy Session

Virginia 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?

$16.22

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $16.22 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $16.22 from a physician practice, and about $18.62 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 8 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$16.22$14.79 to $18.62
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$18.62$15.85 to $23.99

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $19 · 10th to 90th $15 to $33Professionalmedian $16 · 10th to 90th $14 to $23
$10$20$50facility $19professional $16

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
$15.49
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$16.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.80
Median
$15.85
Typical High
$21.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$23.44
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$29.51
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$72.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$40.74
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$27.54
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$42.66
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$28.18
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$20.42
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.95
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$43.65
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$30.20
Typical High
$44.67
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$21.88
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$23.99
Typical High
$36.31

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 50th of 51

$16.22

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.