Doctor visits and therapy CPT 90853 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Group psychotherapy session in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — inpatient

In Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, 1 hospital lists a cash price for Group psychotherapy session as an inpatient: from $37.50 to $46.50, with a median of $42.00.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 90853, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$37.50DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DURHAM REGIONAL HOSPITAL
Median$42.00half pay less
Highest$46.50in this market
Difference1.2×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Durham-Chapel Hill, NC.

median
Lowest $37.50Highest $46.50

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceOff listFile date
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DURHAM REGIONAL HOSPITAL lowest Durham, NC Group Psychotherapy $37.50 $75.00 50%
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DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DURHAM REGIONAL HOSPITAL Durham, NC PR Group Psychothrapy $46.50 $93.00 50%
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Inpatient: lowest $37.50, median $42.00, highest $46.50 — a 1.2× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $42.00 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

What it is

Group psychotherapy is therapy with a clinician and several patients together, usually for 60 to 90 minutes. It is used for issues like depression, anxiety, substance use and grief.

What the price covers

The price covers one person's participation in one group session. Individual sessions or evaluations are billed separately.

2 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 90853 ($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.

DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DURHAM REGIONAL HOSPITAL Durham, NCGroup Therapy $7.02 file
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DURHAM REGIONAL HOSPITAL Durham, NCGroup Therapy $7.02 file