Newark, NJ

City-specific neuro evaluation decision checklist

• Settle the route before the price. A district evaluation under IDEA is requested from the school and carries no charge to parents; a consultative examination for a Social Security claim is ordered and paid for by SSA; only a private evaluation produces a Newark quote. They answer different questions, and one family often needs two of them.
• Name the question first — ADHD, autism, learning, memory, concussion or broader differential — and confirm the Newark clinic routinely handles it.
• Confirm the evaluator with the New Jersey psychology board, and confirm who signs the report.
• Ask for hours, not a total: 96132 is the first hour and 96133 each hour after, so an hours estimate is the price.
• Say which report purpose you need — 504/IEP, workplace accommodations, treatment planning or medical documentation — before booking.
• Get intake-to-testing and testing-to-report as two separate numbers in writing.
• With no Newark figure published, hold a quote against New Jersey's $321.03 average submitted charge for the first hour.

What Newark and New Jersey clinicians actually billed

Source: CMS, Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners — by Provider and Service (city column) and by Geography and Service (state and national columns), calendar year 2024. City figures are by practice address on the claim, not catchment. Medicare fee-for-service only, so for a child evaluation these describe a different patient population. Not a quote.

Local vetting points

• Verify the evaluator with the New Jersey psychology board, not the clinic's own page. ASPPB (asppb.net) lists every state board if you cannot find it.
• Ask whether the clinician who signs the report is the one who administers the tests. Frequently it is not, and both are billed.
• Newark neuro provider authority framework: compare evaluation scope, who is licensed to sign the report, hours billed for testing versus interpretation, report purpose and turnaround, and the reimbursement path.
• Work a symptom-to-evaluation-path decision tree before booking: name whether the question is ADHD, autism, a learning disability, memory change, concussion or a broader differential, then confirm the Newark clinic routinely evaluates that question.

Typical cost ranges

• No Newark practice-address figure is published for code 96132, so the nearest published anchor is New Jersey: an average submitted charge of $321.03, 1% above the national $317.32. Source: CMS, Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners by Geography and Service, CY2024.
• Medicare allowed an average of $134.17 for that first hour in New Jersey. The submitted charge is a list price and the allowed amount is what one payer permits; a private-pay quote will match neither, but the gap between them is the range the conversation happens inside. Source: CMS, Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners by Geography and Service, CY2024.
• Each additional hour (code 96133) averaged $275.50 submitted in New Jersey, Medicare allowing $102.42 against $278.83 nationally. An evaluation has no single price because it is billed by the hour — so the number to ask a Newark clinic for is hours, not a total. Source: CMS, Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners by Geography and Service, CY2024.
• These are Medicare fee-for-service figures, so the patients behind them are 65-plus and disabled beneficiaries. For a child evaluation they describe a different population than yours, and they remain the only per-city figures published for these codes. None of them is a quote.

Payment options

• Ask which of intake, administration (96136) and interpretation (96132/96133) a Newark quote covers. They are separate codes and can be separate charges.
• Ask what happens to the fee if testing runs past the estimate, since additional hours bill under their own code.

Wait-time notes

• Measure the Newark wait as three intervals — call to intake, intake to testing, testing to written report. Clinics usually quote only the first.
• With no Newark practice-address count published, ask each clinic directly for its current waitlist length in weeks.

Availability notes

• Confirm the person you would see evaluates your age group. Adult and paediatric neuropsychology are different practices, and age-group fit is the usual reason a Newark referral is redirected after intake.
• Ask which parts can be done remotely: some instruments have no validated remote administration, so a New Jersey telehealth intake does not imply telehealth testing.

Named resources or providers

• The public school district your child attends is the agency that runs an IDEA evaluation. Under 34 CFR 300.301(b) "either a parent of a child or a public agency may initiate a request for an initial evaluation", and under 34 CFR 300.39(b)(1) the special education that follows is provided "at no cost to the parents". Put the request in writing. Of the 232,745 school-age children New Jersey served, 28,647 were counted under autism and 48,136 under other health impairment — the two categories most parents arriving at this page are asking about. Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, EDPass IDEA Part B Child Count and Educational Environments, 2024-25.
• Do not assume a fixed clock. 34 CFR 300.301(c)(1) gives 60 days from parental consent "or if the State establishes a timeframe within which the evaluation must be conducted, within that timeframe", so ask the New Jersey district which applies there; for a child under three, 34 CFR 303.310 runs the Part C timeline at 45 days from referral.
• If the evaluation is evidence for a Social Security disability claim, SSA can purchase one. SSA POMS DI 22510.001: "SSA pays for any CE ordered for the claimant; and SSA does not pay for any medical examination arranged by the claimant or the claimant's appointed representative unless it is approved in advance." An examination you book yourself near Newark is not that examination.
• The New Jersey psychology licensing board is authoritative for whether an evaluator is licensed and in good standing in New Jersey.
• ASPPB (asppb.net) maintains the directory of state psychology boards.
• CMS publishes the Newark and New Jersey figures quoted here at data.cms.gov, under Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners.
• Academic medical centres and university training clinics near Newark differ from private practice systematically on waitlist, fee and report purpose, so they are worth pricing separately rather than lumping in.
• We do not rank, recommend or endorse providers, and no provider on this site has paid for editorial placement.

Market-specific notes

• No clinician billed Medicare for a neuropsychological evaluation from a Newark practice address in 2024. That is an artefact of where practices register, not a statement about local availability: New Jersey has 64 practice cities with a published figure, led by Brick (7), Somerset (5), Cherry Hill (5). Search the metro, not the city name. Source: CMS, Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners by Provider and Service, CY2024.
• Statewide, 207 New Jersey clinicians billed the code across 4,593 beneficiaries — 7th highest of the 53 states and territories CMS published a figure for. Where the binding constraint is the waitlist rather than the price, that is the most useful published capacity number. Source: CMS, Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners by Geography and Service, CY2024.
• Private-pay neuropsychologists near Newark, school district evaluators and hospital developmental clinics billing only commercial plans are absent from every count on this page, and for child evaluation they are much of the market.
• New Jersey public schools served 232,745 children aged 6 to 21 under IDEA Part B in the 2024-25 federal count, plus 16,736 aged 3 to 5, none of it visible in the Medicare figures on this page. Those are two systems with two front doors, and a count of children served is not a count of evaluations — but it is the reason the school route is worth asking about before you price the private one. Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, EDPass IDEA Part B Child Count and Educational Environments, 2024-25.