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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

Kentucky 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?

$77.62

Typical negotiated rate. In Kentucky, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $77.62 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $81.28 from a physician practice, and about $61.66 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$81.28$44.67 to $891
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$61.66$47.86 to $288

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $62 · 10th to 90th $45 to $457Professionalmedian $81 · 10th to 90th $40 to $977
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $62professional $81

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
$44.67
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$457.09
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$416.87
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,318.26
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$467.74
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$407.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$61.66
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$891.25
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$302.00
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$134.90

Where Kentucky 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.

Kentucky· 19th of 51

$77.62

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.