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Outpatient Specialist Consultation Visit

Montana rates for HCPCS 99242

In this type of visit, a doctor requests the opinion or advice of another physician or qualified health professional about a specific problem with a patient's care. The consulting clinician evaluates the patient and sends a written report back to the requesting doctor. This particular level involves a relatively limited amount of history-taking, examination, and decision-making compared to higher levels of the same type of visit.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Outpatient Specialist Consultation Visit cost?

$95.50

Typical negotiated rate. In Montana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $95.50 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $93.33 from a physician practice, and about $112 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$93.33$58.88 to $123
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$112$93.33 to $132

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $112 · 10th to 90th $69 to $155Professionalmedian $93 · 10th to 90th $41 to $155
$5$10$20$50$100$200facility $112professional $93

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$154.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$117.49
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$147.91
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$147.91
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$147.91
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$177.83
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$208.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$154.88

Where Montana sits

The same service costs 1.7 times more in Minnesota than in West Virginia. 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.

Montana· 9th of 51

$95.50

MN $115WV $66.07

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.