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Tobacco Cessation Counseling, Intensive Visit

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 99407

A healthcare provider spends more than ten minutes in a focused counseling session helping a patient quit smoking or other tobacco use. The visit covers strategies for quitting, coping with cravings, and may include a discussion of medications that can help. It is a longer, more in-depth session than a brief tobacco-cessation check-in.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Tobacco Cessation Counseling, Intensive Visit cost?

$26.30

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $26.30 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $25.70 from a physician practice, and about $28.84 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 6 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$25.70$22.39 to $29.51
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.84$26.30 to $33.11

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $29 · 10th to 90th $26 to $36Professionalmedian $26 · 10th to 90th $20 to $42
$10.0$20.0$50.0$100.0$200.0facility $29professional $26

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
$26.30
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$39.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$45.71
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
25 · Same-day visit
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$97.72
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$33.88
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
25 · Same-day visit
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$31.62
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$32.36
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.89
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$28.84
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$27.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$25.12
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$57.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$38.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$26.92
Typical High
$39.81

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.1 times more in Minnesota than in Alabama. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Louisiana $26.30 · 31st of 51
MN $50.12AL $23.99

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.