Group psychotherapy session in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC
In Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC, 2 hospitals list a cash price for Group psychotherapy session: from $67.50 to $125.50, with a median of $82.62. The lowest listed price is at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters.
Cash prices at 2 facilities across 2 cities for code 90853, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Mar 17, 2026 and Apr 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 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Off list | File date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters lowest Norfolk, VA PR GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY | $67.50 | $75.00 | 10% | Mar 17, 2026 source file |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VA GROUP PSYCHOTHRPY | $82.62 | $91.80 | 10% | Mar 17, 2026 source file |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VA OB-GROUP PSYCHOTHRPY | $82.62 | $91.80 | 10% | Mar 17, 2026 source file |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VA PB-GRP PSYCHOTHRPY | $82.62 | $91.80 | 10% | Mar 17, 2026 source file |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VA URG-GROUP PSYCHOTHRPY | $82.62 | $91.80 | 10% | Mar 17, 2026 source file |
| Sentara Hospitals Virginia Beach, VA Group Psych Not Multi-Family | $125.50 | $251.00 | 50% | Apr 1, 2026 source file |
Outpatient: lowest $67.50, median $82.62, highest $125.50 — a 1.9× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $82.62. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
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.
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VAGROUP PSY | $3.01 | file |
| Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VAGROUP PSYCHTH | $3.01 | file |