Psychiatric evaluation cost in Los Angeles, CA
In Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, 21 hospitals list a cash price for psychiatric evaluation with medical services: from $92.40 to $577.50, with a median of $318.24. The lowest listed price is at UCI Health-Orange — $225.84 less than the median here. Across California, the median is $318.24 at 68 hospitals.
- The median here, $318.24, is 16% above the US median of $274.66.
- That is 1.8× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($181.34).
- Los Angeles, CA has the lowest median of 2 metro areas in California with at least 10 hospitals pricing this code.
- 2 of 21 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.
Cash prices at 21 facilities across 17 cities for code 90792, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Nov 3, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Nov 26, 2025 and Sep 1, 2026.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCI Health-Orange lowest Orange, CA · (714) 456-7890 HB PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $92.40 | $231.00 | — | 60% |
| Mission Hospital Regional Med Center Mission Viejo, CA · (949) 364-1400 HC PSYCH DIAG EVAL W MED SRVCS IOP CDM+1 more line at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $159.36 | $332.00 | — | 52% |
| St Jude Hospital Fullerton, CA · (714) 992-3000 HC PSYCHIATRIC DIAG EVAL W MED SVCS CDM+1 more line at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $214.08 | $446.00 | — | 52% |
| Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center Garden Grove, CA · (714) 537-5160 Hc Psych Diag Eval W/Med Srvcs File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $227.00 | $577.60 | $103.25–$577.60 | 61% |
| La Palma Intercommunity Hospital La Palma, CA · (714) 670-7400 Hc Psych Diag Eval W/Med Srvcs File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $227.00 | $577.60 | $103.25–$577.60 | 61% |
| West Anaheim Medical Center Anaheim, CA · (714) 827-3000 Hc Psych Diag Eval W/Med Srvcs File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file | $227.00 | $577.60 | $103.25–$577.60 | 61% |
| Saint John's Health Center Santa Monica, CA · (310) 829-5511 HC PSYCHIATRIC DIAG EVAL W MED SVCS CDM File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $236.95 | $677.00 | — | 65% |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange Orange, CA · (714) 633-9111 HC PSYCH DIAG EVAL W MED SRVCS IOP CDM+2 more lines at this price File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $253.44 | $528.00 | — | 52% |
| Catalina Island Medical Center Avalon, CA · (310) 510-0700 Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services File of Jul 20, 2026 · source file | $287.00 | $410.00 | $83.00–$410.00 | 30% |
| Kaiser Fnd Hospital - Irvine Irvine, CA · (714) 279-4000 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South Bay Harbor City, CA · (310) 325-5111 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Baldwin Park Baldwin Park, CA · (626) 851-1011 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA · (323) 783-4011 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Panorama City Panorama City, CA · (818) 375-2000 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Downey Downey, CA · (562) 461-6007 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Woodland Hills Woodland Hills, CA · (818) 719-3800 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Orange County - Anaheim Anaheim, CA · (714) 279-4000 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - West LA Los Angeles, CA · (213) 857-2201 PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSTIC EVAL W/MEDICAL SERVICES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Pacifica Hospital of the Valley Sun Valley, CA · (818) 767-3310 Psych Diag Eval W/med Srvcs source file | $545.00 | $545.00 | $182.00–$545.00 | — |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA · (310) 423-5000 HB PSYCH DIAG EVAL W/MED SRVCS File of Nov 26, 2025 · source file | $567.61 | $873.24 | $200.06–$230.07 | 35% |
| Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital Norwalk, CA · (310) 532-4200 PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION File of Feb 4, 2026 · source file | $577.50 | $577.50 | $179.25–$473.71 | — |
Outpatient: lowest $92.40, median $318.24, highest $577.50 — a 6.2× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 16 facilities here, median $318.24. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 4 of 7 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.
What psychiatric evaluation is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Psychiatric evaluation explained.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 90792 ($262.96). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.
| Hospital | Cash price | File |
|---|---|---|
| Saint John's Health Center Santa Monica, CAHC PR 90792 PSYCH DIAG EVAL W MED SRVCS RHC | $3.10 | file |