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Anesthesia Care for a Cervical Stitch

Washington 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?

$214

Typical physician fee. In Washington, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $214 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $47.86 to $316.

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 9 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $257 · 10th to 90th $219 to $437Professionalmedian $65 · 10th to 90th $38 to $380
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $257professional $65

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
$50.12
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$380.19
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$363.08
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$147.91
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$371.54
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$331.13
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$407.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$331.13
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10

Where Washington 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.

Washington· 9th of 51

$214

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.