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Cognitive Skills Therapy, One-on-One

California rates for HCPCS 97532

Therapy aimed at improving thinking skills such as attention, memory, and problem solving after a brain injury, stroke, or illness. The therapist works directly with the patient, using structured exercises and teaching strategies that work around the difficulties that remain. It is delivered in fifteen-minute units of face-to-face time.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Cognitive Skills Therapy, One-on-One cost?

$100

Typical physician fee. In California, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $100 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $33.88 to $126.

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 $43 · 10th to 90th $25 to $100Professionalmedian $126 · 10th to 90th $37 to $126
$20$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $43professional $126

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
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$31.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$26.30
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$831.76
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$125.89
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$30.90
Optum
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$70.79
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$52.48

Where California sits

The same service costs 6.2 times more in Massachusetts than in Kentucky. 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.

California· 3rd of 39

$100

MA $126KY $20.42

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.