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Placement Of A Cervical Dilator

Alaska rates for HCPCS 59200

A device or medication is placed into the cervix to help it gradually soften and open over several hours, most often done before a labor induction or a procedure that requires access through the cervix. This is typically a quick office or hospital procedure done ahead of the main planned procedure.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Placement Of A Cervical Dilator cost?

$390

Typical total for the visit. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $390 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $224 to the doctor who performs it, and $166 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$224$105 to $389
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$166$95.50 to $468

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $166 · 10th to 90th $63 to $2,512Professionalmedian $224 · 10th to 90th $49 to $550
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $166professional $224

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$14,125.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$467.74
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$154.88
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$467.74
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$660.69
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$489.78
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$467.74
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$234.42
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$436.52

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 24.1 times more in New Jersey than in West Virginia. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Alaska· 43rd of 51

$390

$224 physician + $166 facility

NJ $4,548WV $189

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.