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Anesthesia Care for a Cervical Stitch

Maryland rates for HCPCS 00948

Covers the anesthesia care given while a stitch is placed around the cervix in pregnancy to help hold it closed. An anesthesia professional provides the numbing or sleep medicine, commonly as a spinal or epidural block, and monitors breathing, heart rate and blood pressure throughout. The obstetrician's work is charged separately.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Anesthesia Care for a Cervical Stitch cost?

$47.86

Typical physician fee. In Maryland, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $47.86 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $30.20 to $309.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $309 · 10th to 90th $309 to $407Professionalmedian $48 · 10th to 90th $30 to $617
$5$20$100$500facility $309professional $48

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$309.03
Typical High
$407.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$616.60
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.95
Median
$3.80
Typical High
$6.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$281.84
Typical High
$371.54
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$398.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$691.83
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$125.89

Where Maryland sits

The same service costs 14.5 times more in New York than in Delaware. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Maryland· 36th of 51

$47.86

NY $437DE $30.20

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.