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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

Alabama 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?

$47.86

Typical physician fee. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $47.86 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $41.69 to $61.66.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $40 · 10th to 90th $33 to $52Professionalmedian $48 · 10th to 90th $30 to $76
$20$50$100$200$500facility $40professional $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. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$61.66
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$52.48
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$794.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$50.12
Typical High
$81.28

Where Alabama 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.

Alabama· 42nd of 51

$47.86

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.