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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

New York 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?

$525

Typical negotiated rate. In New York, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $525 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $525 from a physician practice, and about $417 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 8 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$525$120 to $832
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$417$39.81 to $661

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $417 · 10th to 90th $34 to $871Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $44 to $1,122
$100$1K$10Kfacility $417professional $525

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
$33.88
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$794.33
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$851.14
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$61.66
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$512.86
Typical High
$2,089.30
Emblem Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$446.68
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$794.33
Excellus BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$478.63
MVP Health Care
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50,118.72
Median
$53,703.18
Typical High
$75,857.76
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,122.02
Univera
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$218.78
Univera
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$478.63

Where New York 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.

New York· 1st of 51

$525

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.