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Anesthesia Care for a Vaginal Delivery

Virginia 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?

$64.57

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $64.57 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $61.66 from a physician practice, and about $67.61 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$61.66$37.15 to $525
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$67.61$33.88 to $363

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $68 · 10th to 90th $28 to $2,089Professionalmedian $62 · 10th to 90th $30 to $794
$20$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $68professional $62

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
$363.08
Typical High
$537.03
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$467.74
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$1,071.52
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2.82
Median
$4.27
Typical High
$5.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$954.99
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$537.03
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$4,786.30
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$97.72
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$97.72
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$93.33

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 23rd of 51

$64.57

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.