Therapy session (45 minutes)

A 45-minute counseling session - the most common therapy appointment length.
Code 90834 · Mental health · statewide summary · negotiated in-network prices
Payers shown: Medical Mutual of Ohio
Prices shown: in-person office visits only
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? These are doctors' fees for a visit in their own office. An independent practice usually charges nothing more, but a clinic owned by a hospital may add a separate facility fee — worth asking before you book. (About 3% of these prices are facility fees instead, which can show up as unusually high prices.)
Who is counted: Medical Mutual of Ohio lists clinicians individually: 98% of the 74,791 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. Medical Mutual of Ohio’s files name 23,648 providers for this procedure; 15,230 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Counselor, Social Worker and Psychologist — and the practices, clinics and hospitals. Insurers attach their whole fee schedule to every contracted provider, so the rest are clinicians listed at a price for something they never do; counting them would inflate the provider count and pull the typical price towards the fee schedule’s floor.
Not on this map: Care outside Ohio: for some plans, Medical Mutual rents Cigna's national network. Those prices are Cigna's, and they are in this site's Cigna section, not here. Hospital stays: Medical Mutual of Ohio's files price whole hospital stays for only a handful of hospitals, so its hospital-stay maps show very few places.
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“x Medicare” compares each price with what original Medicare pays a doctor for the same service in the same state under its physician fee schedule (RVU26D, in force from 2026-10-01) — the price for a doctor's own office. Insurers write their contracts as a share of Medicare, so 1.3x means the insurer pays 30% more than Medicare would; Medicare Advantage plans generally pay close to 1.0x.
This is a statewide summary. Prices vary far more between towns and between practices than these medians suggest; zip-code and provider-level detail is not published here; this specific data can be requested here.