CPT90837

How Much Does Psychotherapy (60 min) Cost in Kansas?

Psytx w pt 60 minutes

$162.83In-office total2026 Medicare, Kansas average

Under 2026 Medicare rates, psychotherapy (60 min) in a doctor's office costs about $163 in Kansas, with no separate facility fee. In a facility the national total is up to about $317 at a hospital outpatient department, because the facility is paid its own rate on top of the physician.

Hospital payments are wage-adjusted by locality, so the ZIP changes the numbers.
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Kansas Medicare physician rate (2026)

-2.5% vs national

Single statewide locality.

Kansas (Hospital)
$134.14
Facility physician fee
Private plan est.
$212–$326
~130–200% of Medicare
Cash / self-pay est.
$130–$244
~80–150% of Medicare

What it costs in a hospital or surgery center

In a doctor’s office, the office rate above is the whole Medicare payment. When the same procedure is done in a hospital or surgery center, the facility bills its own fee on top of the physician, which is what these totals show. They are 2026 national Medicare amounts.

Physician fee alone
$135
Only 43% 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 Kansas

Enter a ZIP code for your part of Kansas, from Overland Park and the Kansas City suburbs to Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence, Salina, and the western High Plains.

What psychotherapy (60 min) costs at hospitals near you

Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Kansas 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 center 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 Kansas the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $28.69.

National vs Kansas

National office$167.00
National hospital (physician)$135.27
Kansas vs national2% below the national office rate of $167.00

Where Kansas ranks for this CPT

Rank (lowest physician fee first)#7 of 51
Lowest stateArkansas ($161.03)
Highest stateAlaska ($232.44)

Psychotherapy (60 min) and how Kansas is priced

A single locality covers all of Kansas, with geographic indices in the lower national tier, so the published Medicare rates apply evenly from the Kansas City suburbs to the far western High Plains. Notably, the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro prices under the statewide Kansas locality while the Missouri side has its own metro locality, meaning the two halves of one city carry different approved amounts. Beyond that quirk, Kansas pricing is straightforwardly uniform. Wichita, Topeka, and rural Kansas all share the same adjustments.

The Kansas City metro and Wichita hold most of the state's specialists, with the academic medical center on the Kansas side of the metro serving as the top referral point. Western Kansas is genuinely frontier in places, with long distances to any hospital that performs advanced procedures, and some High Plains residents cross into Colorado or Nebraska for care. Critical access hospitals carry much of the rural load.

This procedure: This is an extended individual psychotherapy session of about 60 minutes, used when clinical work benefits from more time, such as trauma-focused therapies like EMDR or prolonged exposure, complex cases, or clients who simply progress better with longer sessions. The experience is the same as any therapy session, just longer, in office or via telehealth. Many private-practice therapists use this as their default session length.

What Is Psychotherapy (60 min)?

This is an extended individual psychotherapy session of about 60 minutes, used when clinical work benefits from more time, such as trauma-focused therapies like EMDR or prolonged exposure, complex cases, or clients who simply progress better with longer sessions. The experience is the same as any therapy session, just longer, in office or via telehealth. Many private-practice therapists use this as their default session length.

What Affects the Cost

  • –The 60-minute code both charges and reimburses more than the 45-minute 90834, so session length is itself a cost decision.
  • –Some insurers scrutinize routine use of the longer code and effectively pressure therapists toward 45-minute billing, affecting what is offered in network.
  • –Trauma protocols that clinically require longer sessions can lock you into the higher per-session rate for an extended course.
  • –Cash rates for 60-minute sessions in major metropolitan areas run well above national averages.
  • –Weekly frequency at the higher session rate compounds fastest of the common therapy configurations.

Questions to Ask Before Booking

  • 1.Do you bill 45 or 60 minute sessions, and how does that change my cost per visit?
  • 2.Does my treatment approach genuinely need the longer session, or would 45 minutes serve?
  • 3.What is my plan's allowed amount for 90837 out of network?
  • 4.Has my insurer ever pushed back on your 60-minute billing, and what happens to my sessions if it does?
  • 5.Is telehealth billed at the same rate as in-person for the hour session?

Psychotherapy (60 min) in Kansas: questions

Under 2026 Medicare rates, psychotherapy (60 min) in a doctor's office costs about $163 in Kansas, with no separate facility fee. In a facility the national total is up to about $317 at a hospital outpatient department, because the facility is paid its own rate on top of the physician. Kansas is a single Medicare locality, so the physician rate is the same statewide.

Not on the physician fee schedule. Kansas 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 $33 for the office physician line or $27 for the hospital physician line in Kansas. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.

In a doctor's office, $162.83 is Medicare's whole payment in Kansas: it covers the physician, the room and the supplies, with no separate facility fee. If it is done in a hospital outpatient department instead, the physician is paid about $134.14 and the hospital adds its own facility payment, bringing the national total to up to about $317. Services billed under other codes, such as lab work, are extra. Kansas ranks #7 of 51 states on the office rate (2% below the national office rate of $167.00).

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.