# Individual therapy session, 60 minutes in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `90837`. Prices for this code at 15 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/individual-therapy-session-60-minutes

HC PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENT &/ FAMILY 60 MINUTES

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 8 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 6 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $183 |
| Typical | $317 |
| Dearest tenth | $384 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 2-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $260 | $145 | $658 | $94 | $526 | 76 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA (3.6 mi) | 4/5 | $183 | $183 | not mentioned | $628 | $178 | $377 | 7 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR (4.8 mi) | 2/5 | $183 | $183 | not mentioned | $628 | $178 | $377 | 7 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA (4.7 mi) | 2/5 | $186 | $186 | not mentioned | $628 | $180 | $382 | 7 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $314 | $314 | not mentioned | $759 | $179 | $679 | 9 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $759 | $180 | $677 | 9 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $759 | $180 | $703 | 9 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $759 | $180 | $677 | 9 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $759 | $180 | $687 | 9 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $384 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $457 | $77 | $609 | 133 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $384 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $457 | $73 | $609 | 126 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $384 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $457 | $68 | $609 | 128 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $384 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $457 | $92 | $609 | 133 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $384 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $457 | $98 | $609 | 127 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (19.7 mi) | 2/5 | $553 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $284 | $184 | $850 | 45 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 1 of the 15 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 14 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $117 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 693 billing providers in 2024. That is a separate bill from everything above and is NOT added to any figure on this page -- it is here to show the rough size of what a hospital price leaves out.

## Others in behavioral & mental health

- [Psychotherapy, 30 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/psychotherapy-30-minutes) -- 48 hospitals, typically $184
- [Individual therapy session, 45 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/individual-therapy-session-45-minutes) -- 46 hospitals, typically $230
- [Family therapy with the patient, 50 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/family-therapy-with-the-patient-50-minutes) -- 46 hospitals, typically $235
- [Family therapy without the patient, 50 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/family-therapy-without-the-patient-50-minutes) -- 44 hospitals, typically $302
- [Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/psychiatric-diagnostic-evaluation) -- 43 hospitals, typically $193
- [Group therapy](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/group-therapy) -- 40 hospitals, typically $124

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-01-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.