CPT90792

Psychiatric Evaluation With Medical Services Cost in Iowa

Psych diag eval w/med srvcs

$341Hospital outpatient total2026 Medicare, physician + facility
Hospital payments are wage-adjusted by locality, so the ZIP changes the numbers.
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Iowa Medicare physician rate (2026)

-4.1% vs national

Single statewide locality.

Iowa (Hospital)
$154.65
Facility physician fee
Private plan est.
$252–$388
~130–200% of Medicare
Cash / self-pay est.
$155–$291
~80–150% of Medicare

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.

Physician fee alone
$159
Only 47% of the hospital total

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 Iowa

Try your ZIP code to see local context, whether you are in Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, the Quad Cities, Sioux City, or one of Iowa's many rural counties.

What psychiatric evaluation with medical services costs at hospitals near you

Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Iowa moves the bill more than anything else you control.

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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 Iowa the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $39.12.

National vs Iowa

National office$202.08
National hospital (physician)$159.32
Iowa vs national4% below the national office rate of $202.08

Where Iowa ranks for this CPT

Rank (lowest physician fee first)#5 of 51
Lowest stateArkansas ($191.22)
Highest stateAlaska ($272.73)

Psychiatric Evaluation With Medical Services and how Iowa is priced

Iowa is priced as one statewide locality, and its low geographic indices have long placed Medicare-approved amounts here among the lowest in the nation, a point the state's medical community has repeatedly raised with Washington. Des Moines and the smallest farm towns share the same fee schedule adjustments. The single locality means the university medical center in Iowa City bills against the same geographic factors as a rural clinic. Consumers comparing across state lines will often find Iowa procedure prices lower than in Illinois or Minnesota metros.

Care in Iowa is organized around Des Moines, the university hospital in Iowa City, and regional hubs like Cedar Rapids, Davenport, and Sioux City, each serving broad rural catchments. Many small counties have hospitals with limited procedure offerings, so referrals up the chain are routine. Residents on the state's edges commonly cross into Omaha, the Quad Cities, or Rochester, Minnesota for specialty 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?

Psychiatric Evaluation With Medical Services in Iowa: questions

Iowa is a single Medicare locality for this fee schedule. The 2026 physician rate for CPT 90792 is $193.77 in an office and $154.65 in a hospital, statewide. A ZIP lookup still confirms the locality mapping.

Not on the physician fee schedule. Iowa uses one locality, so the Medicare physician rate is the same from one end of the state to the other. What still changes is site of service (office vs hospital) and any facility fee the hospital bills on its own claim.

After the Part B deductible, coinsurance is usually 20% of the allowed amount: about $39 for the office physician line or $31 for the hospital physician line in Iowa. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.

No. $193.77 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. Iowa ranks #5 of 51 states on the physician line (4% below the national office rate of $202.08).

Data source: 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (CMS PPRRVU26B, released March 2026). Conversion factor: $33.4009. Prices shown are Medicare allowed amounts for the physician service and may not match what you are billed. Private insurance and self-pay ranges, when shown, are labeled estimates (typical multiples of Medicare), not quotes. This site is an independent cost tool, not medical advice.