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Anesthesia Care for a Cervical Stitch

North Carolina 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?

$44.67

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $44.67 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $43.65 from a physician practice, and about $380 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$43.65$30.20 to $302
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$380$275 to $617

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $380 · 10th to 90th $30 to $1,820Professionalmedian $44 · 10th to 90th $30 to $513
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $380professional $44

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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$616.60
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$467.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$467.74
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$4,677.35
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3.98
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$89.13
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$416.87
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$104.71
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$2,398.83

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 48th of 51

$44.67

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.