# Group therapy in Macon, GA

Billing code `90853`. Prices for this code at 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Macon, 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/macon/group-therapy

HC GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC

**Where this is done matters more than which hospital:** Group therapy is a procedure a doctor's office can perform, and Medicare pays about 4.2x 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 Do not quote these as the cost of the procedure without saying which setting they describe.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, 1 publish a physician fee; 2 publish both, mixed together; 2 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $38 |
| Typical | $90 |
| Highest reported | $246 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Navicent Peach | BYRON (16.2 mi) | 1/5 | $38 | not mentioned | $38 | not published | $28 | $61 | 22 |
| Navicent Health Baldwin | MILLEDGEVILLE (26.5 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $90 | $38 | not published | $24 | $92 | 31 |
| Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center | MACON (3.2 mi) | 2/5 | see split | $135 | $45 | $104 | $24 | $489 | 59 |
| Piedmont Macon North Hospital | MACON (7.8 mi) | 4/5 | $230 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $106 | $31 | $340 | 56 |
| Coliseum Medical Centers | MACON (6.9 mi) | 3/5 | $246 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $106 | $23 | $354 | 56 |

## 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 2 of the 3 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 1 it is higher.

## The doctor's side, roughly

Nationally, Medicare allows about $22 for the clinician who performs or reads this service, across 244 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

- [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
- [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

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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 2025-11-19 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.