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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 October 2026.

How much does Tobacco Cessation Counseling, Intensive Visit cost?

$25.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $25.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $24.55 from a physician practice, and about $28.18 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$24.55$22.39 to $28.84
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$28.18$27.54 to $45.71

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $28 · 10th to 90th $27 to $62Professionalmedian $25 · 10th to 90th $20 to $36
$10$20$50$100facility $28professional $25

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$30.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$33.88
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$45.71
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$69.18
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$23.44
Typical High
$24.55
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$27.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$33.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$104.71
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$38.90

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.0 times more in Alaska than in New Jersey. 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.

Louisiana· 39th of 51

$25.12

AK $64.57NJ $21.88

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.