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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

Alaska rates for HCPCS 01960

Covers the anesthesia care given for a vaginal birth. An anesthesia professional provides the pain relief and watches your breathing, heart rate and blood pressure through the delivery. Pain relief run continuously through labor is a separate service, and the obstetrician's or midwife's care is charged separately too.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery cost?

$355

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $355 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $347 from a physician practice, and about $3,311 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$347$72.44 to $479
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,311$537 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $50 to $5,129Professionalmedian $347 · 10th to 90th $50 to $575
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $3,311professional $347

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
$537.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$549.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$562.34
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$794.33
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$5,128.61
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$724.44
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$575.44
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$5,128.61
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$562.34

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 17.4 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.

Alaska· 5th of 51

$355

NY $525DE $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.