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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

North Carolina 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?

$363

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $363 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $363 from a physician practice, and about $457 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 7 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$363$191 to $575
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$457$363 to $724

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $457 · 10th to 90th $30 to $1,820Professionalmedian $363 · 10th to 90th $32 to $933
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $457professional $363

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
$30.20
Median
$457.09
Typical High
$724.44
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$562.34
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$977.24
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$891.25
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$4,677.35
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.01
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$85.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$501.19
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$104.71
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$2,884.03

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 3rd of 51

$363

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.