Therapy session, 30 min cost in Riverside, CA
In Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA, 11 hospitals list a cash price for psychotherapy session, 30 minutes: from $87.50 to $318.24, with a median of $186.17. The lowest listed price is at Bear Valley Community Hospital — $98.67 less than the median here. Across California, the median is $318.24 at 117 hospitals.
- The median here, $186.17, is 11% above the US median of $168.38.
- That is about the same as Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($181.34).
- Riverside, CA has the lowest median of 4 metro areas in California with at least 10 hospitals pricing this code.
- 2 of 11 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.
Cash prices at 11 facilities across 9 cities for code 90832, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Nov 4, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Feb 25, 2026 and Sep 30, 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 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Valley Community Hospital lowest Big Bear Lake, CA · (909) 866-6501 TELE HEALTH PSYCHIACTRIC 20-30W/ MED E/M+2 more lines at this price File of Jun 11, 2026 · source file | $87.50 | $125.00 | $18.98–$125.00 | 30% |
| Loma Linda University Childrens Hospital Loma Linda, CA · (909) 558-8000 HC PSYCHOTHERAPY 30 MIN W PT+1 more line at this price File of Sep 2, 2026 · source file | $102.60 | $228.00 | $45.60–$3,171.00 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, CA · (909) 558-4000 HC PHP YOUTH INDIVIDUAL BRIEF File of Sep 2, 2026 · source file | $117.90 | $262.00 | $52.40–$464.17 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center Redlands, CA HC PHP YOUTH INDIVIDUAL BRIEF File of Aug 31, 2026 · source file | $117.90 | $262.00 | $84.41–$400.00 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, CA · (909) 558-4000 HC PSYCHOTHERAPY 30 MIN W PT File of Sep 2, 2026 · source file | $130.50 | $290.00 | $58.00–$464.17 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, CA · (909) 558-4000 HC PHP MURRIETA INDIVIDUAL BRIEF+3 more lines at this price File of Sep 2, 2026 · source file | $168.30 | $374.00 | $74.80–$464.17 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center Redlands, CA HC PHP YOUTH IOP INDIVIDUAL BRIEF+3 more lines at this price File of Aug 31, 2026 · source file | $168.30 | $374.00 | $84.41–$400.00 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center Redlands, CA HC INDIV BRIEF THERAPY File of Aug 31, 2026 · source file | $175.95 | $391.00 | $84.41–$400.00 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, CA · (909) 558-4000 HC INDIV BRIEF THERAPY File of Sep 2, 2026 · source file | $175.95 | $391.00 | $78.20–$464.17 | 55% |
| Community Hospital of San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA · (909) 887-6333 PSYCHOTHER PAT 16-37 MIN File of Sep 30, 2026 · source file | $177.70 | $457.00 | $60.67–$1,850.00 | 61% |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, CA · (909) 558-4000 HC ED INDIV BRIEF THERAPY File of Sep 2, 2026 · source file | $181.80 | $404.00 | $80.80–$464.17 | 55% |
| Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center Redlands, CA HC ED INDIV BRIEF THERAPY File of Aug 31, 2026 · source file | $181.80 | $404.00 | $84.41–$400.00 | 55% |
| Riverside University Medical Center Moreno Valley, CA · (951) 486-4000 HC Indiv Brief Therapy+1 more line at this price File of Mar 30, 2026 · source file | $186.17 | $186.17 | $67.83–$186.17 | — |
| San Bernardino County Colton, CA · (909) 580-1000 HC PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENT &/ FAMILY 30 MINUTES File of Feb 25, 2026 · source file | $279.00 | $279.00 | $67.83–$319.60 | — |
| Kaiser Ontario Medical Center Campus Ontario, CA · (909) 427-5000 PSYCHOTHERAPY W/PATIENT 30 MINUTES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Riverside Riverside, CA · (951) 353-2000 PSYCHOTHERAPY W/PATIENT 30 MINUTES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Fontana Fontana, CA · (909) 427-5000 PSYCHOTHERAPY W/PATIENT 30 MINUTES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Moreno Valley Moreno Valley, CA · (951) 251-6530 PSYCHOTHERAPY W/PATIENT 30 MINUTES File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $318.24 | $612.00 | — | 48% |
Outpatient: lowest $87.50, median $186.17, highest $318.24 — a 3.6× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 10 facilities here, median $232.59. 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 6 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 therapy session, 30 min is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Therapy session, 30 min explained.
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 90832 ($168.30). 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Redlands Community Hospital Redlands, CAPsychotherapy, 30 minutes | $15.60 | file |