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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

Iowa 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?

$214

Typical physician fee. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $214 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $50.12 to $347.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $269 · 10th to 90th $98 to $537Professionalmedian $214 · 10th to 90th $35 to $513
$10$20$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $269professional $214

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
$213.80
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$512.86
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$380.19
Typical High
$616.60
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$489.78
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$4,073.80
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$1,348.96
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.91
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$46.77
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$457.09
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$436.52

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 13th of 51

$214

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.