How Much Does a Psychiatric Evaluation Cost in Wyoming?
Psych diagnostic evaluation
$173.18In-office total2026 Medicare, Wyoming averageUnder 2026 Medicare rates, a psychiatric evaluation in a doctor's office costs about $173 in Wyoming, with no separate facility fee. In a facility the national total is up to about $319 at a hospital outpatient department, because the facility is paid its own rate on top of the physician.
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Wyoming Medicare physician rate (2026)
-0.1% vs nationalSingle statewide locality.
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.
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 Wyoming
Enter a ZIP code for your part of Wyoming, whether Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie, Gillette, Sheridan, Rock Springs, or the Jackson Hole and Wind River country.
What psychiatric evaluation costs at hospitals near you
Everything above is a national average. The hospital you pick in Wyoming 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 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 Wyoming the office and hospital physician lines for this CPT differ by $36.08.
National vs Wyoming
Where Wyoming ranks for this CPT
Psychiatric Evaluation and how Wyoming is priced
The least populous state in the nation, Wyoming is priced through one statewide locality whose indices sit in the lowest national tier, supported by the rural work index floor. Cheyenne, Casper, and a mountain hamlet in the Winds all share identical Medicare-approved amounts. With no city large enough to form its own market in CMS's eyes, the fee schedule is as simple here as anywhere in America. The hard part of Wyoming health care has never been the published price; it is reaching a provider who performs the procedure.
Wyoming has no academic medical center of its own, so complex care routinely means a trip to Denver, Salt Lake City, Billings, or Fort Collins, and residents plan major procedures around those referral routes. Cheyenne, Casper, Jackson, and Gillette support the state's larger hospitals, while frontier counties depend on small critical access facilities. Distances and winter weather make telehealth and travel planning unusually important here.
This procedure: A psychiatric diagnostic evaluation is the comprehensive first appointment with a mental health professional, typically a psychologist, therapist, or psychiatrist, covering your history, symptoms, and goals to establish a diagnosis and treatment plan. It usually runs 60 to 90 minutes, longer than ordinary therapy sessions, and happens in an office or by telehealth. This version of the evaluation does not include medical services like prescribing, which distinguishes it from its sister code 90792.
What Is Psychiatric Evaluation?
A psychiatric diagnostic evaluation is the comprehensive first appointment with a mental health professional, typically a psychologist, therapist, or psychiatrist, covering your history, symptoms, and goals to establish a diagnosis and treatment plan. It usually runs 60 to 90 minutes, longer than ordinary therapy sessions, and happens in an office or by telehealth. This version of the evaluation does not include medical services like prescribing, which distinguishes it from its sister code 90792.
What Affects the Cost
- –Many therapists and some psychiatrists do not accept insurance at all, making this a cash purchase at whatever the clinician charges.
- –Clinician credentials drive price: psychiatrists charge more than psychologists, who charge more than masters-level therapists, for the same code.
- –In-network negotiated rates are often far below the clinician's list price, so network status changes the cost more than almost anything else.
- –Telehealth platforms sometimes price intake evaluations differently from their ongoing session rates.
- –Out-of-network plans may reimburse a percentage of an allowed amount well below what the clinician actually charged, leaving you the gap.
Questions to Ask Before Booking
- 1.Are you in network with my plan, and if not, what is your rate for this evaluation?
- 2.Will ongoing sessions be billed at a different rate than this intake?
- 3.If I need medication, will you refer me for a separate 90792 evaluation with a prescriber, at what cost?
- 4.Does my plan offer a network-gap exception if no in-network therapist is available soon?
- 5.Do you provide superbills I can submit for out-of-network reimbursement?
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Psychiatric Evaluation in Wyoming: questions
Under 2026 Medicare rates, a psychiatric evaluation in a doctor's office costs about $173 in Wyoming, with no separate facility fee. In a facility the national total is up to about $319 at a hospital outpatient department, because the facility is paid its own rate on top of the physician. Wyoming is a single Medicare locality, so the physician rate is the same statewide.
Not on the physician fee schedule. Wyoming 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 $35 for the office physician line or $27 for the hospital physician line in Wyoming. Medigap may cover that 20%. This is not the hospital facility fee.
In a doctor's office, $173.18 is Medicare's whole payment in Wyoming: 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 $137.10 and the hospital adds its own facility payment, bringing the national total to up to about $319. Services billed under other codes, such as lab work, are extra. Wyoming ranks #30 of 51 states on the office rate (within 2% of the national office rate of $173.35).