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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

Pennsylvania 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?

$50.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Pennsylvania, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $50.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $50.12 from a physician practice, and about $389 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 9 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$50.12$30.20 to $380
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$389$30.20 to $479

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $389 · 10th to 90th $30 to $537Professionalmedian $50 · 10th to 90th $30 to $537
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $389professional $50

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
$389.05
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$537.03
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$61.66
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$1,047.13
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
$109.65
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$933.25
Geisinger
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,000.00
Johns Hopkins Employer Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$363.08
Johns Hopkins Employer Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$446.68
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$501.19
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$575.44
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.50
Median
$22.39
Typical High
$81.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$870.96

Where Pennsylvania 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.

Pennsylvania· 38th of 51

$50.12

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.