# Physical therapy evaluation, low complexity in Columbus, GA

Billing code `97161`. Prices for this code at 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Columbus, 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/columbus/physical-therapy-evaluation-low-complexity

HC PT EVAL LOW COMPLEX 20 MIN

## Before quoting any figure below

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- **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, 1 publish a facility charge; 1 publish both, mixed together; 3 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $91 |
| Typical | $150 |
| Highest reported | $319 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Center Barbour | EUFAULA, AL (32.3 mi) | not rated | $91 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $42 | $19 | $240 | 15 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS (~0 mi) | 3/5 | $97 | $97 | not mentioned | not published | $93 | $232 | 8 |
| The East Alabama Healthcare Authority | OPELIKA, AL (28.9 mi) | 3/5 | see split | $154 | $91 | $106 | $28 | $212 | 130 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Northside | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 5/5 | $315 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $135 | $52 | $426 | 19 |
| Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown | COLUMBUS (3.3 mi) | 2/5 | $319 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $135 | $65 | $450 | 20 |

## 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 4 of the 4 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 0 it is higher.

2 of these 5 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Medical Center Barbour, The East Alabama Healthcare Authority.

## Others in physical & occupational therapy

- [Therapeutic exercise, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/therapeutic-exercise-15-minutes) -- 107 hospitals, typically $53
- [Hands-on manual therapy, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/hands-on-manual-therapy-15-minutes) -- 107 hospitals, typically $57
- [Neuromuscular retraining, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neuromuscular-retraining-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $52
- [Walking and gait training, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/walking-and-gait-training-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $44
- [Therapy using everyday activities, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/therapy-using-everyday-activities-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $57
- [Self-care and daily living training, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/self-care-and-daily-living-training-15-minutes) -- 105 hospitals, typically $46
- [Physical therapy evaluation, moderate complexity](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/physical-therapy-evaluation-moderate-complexity) -- 104 hospitals, typically $134
- [Ultrasound therapy, 15 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/ultrasound-therapy-15-minutes) -- 103 hospitals, typically $37

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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 2026-04-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.