Psychiatric Evaluation With Medical Services Cost in Georgia
Psych diag eval w/med srvcs
$341Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility- ✓Your ZIP's wage-adjusted hospital and surgery centre rates
- ✓Five nearby hospitals by name, with CMS star ratings
- ✓The add-on codes that typically land on the bill
- ✓A word-for-word script for asking for a good-faith estimate
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- ✓Everything in the Premium report
- ✓15 nearby hospitals instead of five
- ✓Filled good-faith-estimate request letter
- ✓Bill-negotiation letter
- ✓Printable PDF download
Georgia Medicare physician rate (2026)
-0.7% vs nationalAverage of 2 localities. Office range $196.96–$204.55.
What the whole procedure costs
The rate above is the physician’s fee on its own. The facility bills separately, and for most procedures the facility is the larger half of the bill. These are 2026 national Medicare amounts.
Medicare may pay the facility separately for this code or package it into another service on the same day, so treat the facility share as an upper bound. Medicare allowed amounts are not what an uninsured patient is charged, and not a quote. Private plans typically allow more.
Your ZIP in Georgia
Look up your ZIP to see whether Atlanta-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro counties to Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural south Georgia.
What psychiatric evaluation with medical services costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Georgia moves the bill more than anything else you control.
Rates for your ZIP, 5 named hospitals with CMS ratings, the add-on codes, and the scheduler script.
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What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again. In Georgia the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $40.78.
National vs Georgia
Where Georgia ranks for this CPT
CPT 90792 by Georgia locality
| Locality | Office |
|---|---|
| atlanta | $204.55 |
| rest of georgia | $196.96 |
PE GPCI ranges from 0.892 to 1.016 in Georgia. That index is why the same CPT is not one price statewide.
Psychiatric Evaluation With Medical Services and how Georgia is priced
Georgia divides into an Atlanta metro locality and a rest-of-state locality, so the fee schedule itself recognizes the cost gap between the capital region and the rest of the state. Atlanta's higher wages and rents translate into higher Medicare-approved amounts inside its locality, while Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural Georgia share the lower rest-of-state pricing. The split is one of the cleaner examples of a two-tier state in the fee schedule. Patients near the locality boundary can see different approved amounts a short drive apart.
Metro Atlanta concentrates the state's academic medicine and most of its subspecialists, drawing referrals from across the Southeast. Outside the metro, south Georgia has seen repeated rural hospital closures, leaving longer trips for even routine procedures in some counties. Augusta and Savannah serve as important secondary hubs, and border residents sometimes cross into Chattanooga, Tallahassee, or Jacksonville for care.
This procedure: This is the psychiatric diagnostic evaluation performed by a medical provider, a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner, that includes medical services: reviewing your health history and medications, considering physical causes of symptoms, and usually prescribing or adjusting psychiatric medication. It typically lasts 45 to 90 minutes as the intake for medication management. Follow-up prescribing visits are then shorter and billed under different codes.
What Is Psychiatric Evaluation With Medical Services?
This is the psychiatric diagnostic evaluation performed by a medical provider, a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner, that includes medical services: reviewing your health history and medications, considering physical causes of symptoms, and usually prescribing or adjusting psychiatric medication. It typically lasts 45 to 90 minutes as the intake for medication management. Follow-up prescribing visits are then shorter and billed under different codes.
What Affects the Cost
- –Psychiatrists are among the least likely of all physicians to accept insurance, so cash-pay intake fees are common and vary widely by market.
- –This medical evaluation code pays more than the non-medical 90791, and clinician list prices reflect that.
- –Any labs ordered at intake, such as thyroid or metabolic panels before starting medication, are billed separately by the lab.
- –Follow-up medication visits recur monthly or quarterly indefinitely, so the ongoing cadence matters more than the intake price.
- –Private-pay concierge psychiatry practices bundle intakes and follow-ups into membership pricing outside insurance entirely.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Do you take my insurance, and what are your cash rates for the intake and for follow-ups?
- 2.How often will I need follow-up visits, and how are those billed?
- 3.Will you order baseline labs, and where should I have them drawn to stay in network?
- 4.If therapy is recommended alongside medication, do you provide it or refer out?
- 5.Can I request a network-gap exception if no in-network prescriber is available in a reasonable time?
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Psychiatric Evaluation With Medical Services in Georgia: questions
The 2026 Medicare physician office rate for CPT 90792 averages $200.76 across 2 Georgia localities, from $196.96 in REST OF GEORGIA to $204.55 in ATLANTA. The hospital physician rate averages $159.98. Enter a ZIP for the exact locality.
Yes. CMS splits Georgia into 2 payment localities. For this CPT the office physician fee spans $7.59 from the lowest to highest locality. Look up your ZIP to see whether Atlanta-area or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro counties to Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and rural south Georgia.
After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $40 for the office physician line or $32 for the hospital physician line in Georgia. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
No. $200.76 is only the physician's share. Adding Medicare's facility payment brings the total to about $341 in a hospital outpatient department. Anesthesia, pathology and other codes billed the same day are extra. Georgia ranks #29 of 51 states on the physician line (within 2% of the national office rate of $202.08).