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Best-value hospitals for psychotherapy, 45 minutes.

Ranked on a composite of cash-pay price (low is good) and CMS Care Compare rating (high is good). The top of this list is where price and quality both work in your favor. National rankings. CPT code 90834.

1
NYU Langone Tisch Hospital
New York, NY
5/5 CMS
$46
2
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA
5/5 CMS
$68
3
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL
5/5 CMS
$134
4
Adventist Health Glendale
Glendale, CA
4/5 CMS
$35
5
Endeavor Health Evanston Hospital
Evanston, IL
5/5 CMS
$160
6
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
5/5 CMS
$161
7
UC San Diego Health
San Diego, CA
5/5 CMS
$169
8
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
4/5 CMS
$97
9
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY
5/5 CMS
$180
10
St. Mary Medical Center
Long Beach, CA
4/5 CMS
$147

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How "best value" is computed.

Each hospital gets two ranks: one by cash-pay price (cheapest = rank 1) and one by CMS overall rating (highest = rank 1). The two are summed; the lowest sum is the best value. Ties broken by price.

Hospitals without a published CMS rating (specialty, pediatric, cancer-only) are excluded from this ranking because the composite would be meaningless. They show up on the procedure overview page instead.

This is one heuristic. Some patients reasonably weight rating heavier than price, others the reverse. The comparison tool lets you sort by price-only, rating-only, or this same composite, and add your insurance for plan-specific numbers.