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Fetal Monitoring by a Consulting Doctor

Arizona rates for HCPCS 59050

During labour, a doctor who is not the one delivering the baby oversees the continuous recording of the baby's heart rate alongside the mother's contractions, interprets the tracing and writes a report. It is used when an additional opinion on the baby's wellbeing is wanted.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Fetal Monitoring by a Consulting Doctor cost?

$53.70

Typical negotiated rate. In Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $53.70 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $50.12 from a physician practice, and about $302 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 5 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$44.67 to $61.66
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$302$85.11 to $933

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $302 · 10th to 90th $55 to $1,950Professionalmedian $50 · 10th to 90th $40 to $209
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $302professional $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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$208.93
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$489.78
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$229.09
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$104.71
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$1,949.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$371.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$2,187.76
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$95.50

Where Arizona sits

The same service costs 5.9 times more in Oklahoma 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.

Arizona· 42nd of 51

$53.70

OK $275DE $46.77

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.