# Individual therapy session, 45 minutes in GA

Billing code `90834`. Prices for this code at 46 hospitals in GA, 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/individual-therapy-session-45-minutes

HC PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENT &/ FAMILY 45 MINUTES

**Where this is done matters more than which hospital:** Individual therapy session, 45 minutes is a procedure a doctor's office can perform, and Medicare pays about 2.4x more for it at a hospital outpatient department than in an office. Every price below is a hospital's, and excludes the doctor's separate bill. Do not quote these as the cost of the procedure without saying which setting they describe.

## 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, 2 publish a physician fee; 21 publish a facility charge; 4 publish both, mixed together; 19 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $129 |
| Typical | $230 |
| Dearest tenth | $408 |

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 3-fold difference for the same billing code -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wills Memorial Hospital | WASHINGTON | not rated | $94 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $105 | $93 | $128 | 14 |
| Candler County Hospital | METTER | not rated | $97 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $39 | $144 | 15 |
| Jeff Davis Hospital | HAZLEHURST | not rated | $103 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $105 | $51 | $230 | 19 |
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON | 1/5 | $105 | not mentioned | $105 | not published | $103 | $138 | 15 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE | 2/5 | see split | $157 | $92 | not published | $90 | $160 | 24 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA | 2/5 | see split | $241 | $98 | $541 | $68 | $433 | 75 |
| Southwell Medical, a Campus of TRMC | ADEL | not rated | see split | $146 | $150 | $105 | $34 | $292 | 44 |
| Dodge County Hospital | EASTMAN | not rated | $155 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $52 | $303 | 11 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON | 2/5 | see split | $267 | $109 | $206 | $90 | $489 | 56 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham | DEMOREST | 3/5 | $159 | $159 | not mentioned | $204 | $125 | $163 | 5 |
| St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare | COLUMBUS | 3/5 | $161 | $161 | not mentioned | not published | $103 | $389 | 8 |
| Phoebe Sumter Medical Center | AMERICUS | 3/5 | $163 | $163 | not mentioned | not published | $156 | $272 | 7 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center | GAINESVILLE | 3/5 | $178 | $178 | not mentioned | $204 | $125 | $183 | 5 |
| Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital | ALBANY | 2/5 | $180 | $180 | not mentioned | not published | $171 | $299 | 7 |
| NGMC Barrow | WINDER | 4/5 | $182 | $182 | not mentioned | $204 | $125 | $187 | 5 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR | 2/5 | $183 | $183 | not mentioned | $628 | $178 | $377 | 7 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA | 4/5 | $183 | $183 | not mentioned | $628 | $178 | $377 | 7 |
| Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton | CARROLLTON | 2/5 | $184 | not mentioned | $184 | $133 | $181 | $195 | 8 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA | 2/5 | $186 | $186 | not mentioned | $628 | $180 | $382 | 7 |
| Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin | DAHLONEGA | 5/5 | $188 | $188 | not mentioned | $204 | $125 | $193 | 5 |
| Chatuge Regional Hospital | HIAWASSEE | not rated | $200 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $191 | $84 | $325 | 35 |
| Mountain Lakes Medical Center | CLAYTON | not rated | $209 | $209 | not mentioned | $104 | $183 | $1,100 | 3 |
| WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col | AUGUSTA | 1/5 | $218 | $218 | not mentioned | $389 | $156 | $566 | 14 |
| Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center | ROME | 2/5 | $230 | $230 | not mentioned | $217 | $73 | $369 | 38 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON | 4/5 | $257 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $116 | $36 | $348 | 42 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON | 3/5 | $271 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $116 | $26 | $387 | 42 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING | 4/5 | $297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $343 | $55 | $457 | 126 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA | 3/5 | $297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $343 | $68 | $457 | 127 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE | 3/5 | $297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $343 | $68 | $457 | 133 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON | 4/5 | $297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $343 | $51 | $457 | 128 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH | 4/5 | $297 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $343 | $58 | $457 | 133 |
| WellStar West Georgia Medical Center | LAGRANGE | 5/5 | $302 | $302 | not mentioned | $389 | $175 | $680 | 10 |
| WellStar Spalding Medical Center | GRIFFIN | 2/5 | $308 | $308 | not mentioned | $389 | $178 | $678 | 10 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE | 3/5 | $314 | $314 | not mentioned | $389 | $179 | $679 | 9 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL | 3/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $389 | $180 | $703 | 9 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA | 4/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $389 | $180 | $677 | 9 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM | 4/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $389 | $180 | $677 | 9 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL | 2/5 | $317 | $317 | not mentioned | $389 | $180 | $687 | 9 |
| Evans Memorial Hospital | CLAXTON | not rated | $342 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $94 | $514 | 13 |
| Colquitt Regional Medical Center | MOULTRIE | 4/5 | $365 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $387 | $72 | $387 | 44 |
| Memorial Health Meadows Hospital | VIDALIA | 5/5 | $408 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $404 | $412 | 2 |
| Memorial Satilla Health | WAYCROSS | 3/5 | $408 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $404 | $412 | 2 |
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH | 1/5 | $408 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $404 | $412 | 2 |
| Doctors Hospital | AUGUSTA | 3/5 | $412 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $404 | $421 | 3 |
| Fairview Park Hospital | DUBLIN | 4/5 | $412 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $404 | $421 | 5 |
| WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center | JACKSON | not rated | $510 | $510 | not mentioned | $389 | $450 | $570 | 2 |

## 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 8 of the 33 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 25 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $84 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 1,259 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.

1 of these 46 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: Jeff Davis Hospital.

## Others in behavioral & mental health

- [Individual therapy session, 60 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/individual-therapy-session-60-minutes) -- 48 hospitals, typically $302
- [Psychotherapy, 30 minutes](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/psychotherapy-30-minutes) -- 48 hospitals, typically $184
- [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 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.