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Placement Of A Cervical Dilator

Iowa 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?

$1,417

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,417 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $158 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,259 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$158$81.28 to $309
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,259$251 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,259 · 10th to 90th $120 to $6,761Professionalmedian $158 · 10th to 90th $54 to $389
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,259professional $158

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
$128.82
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$169.82
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$380.19
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$251.19
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$1,380.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$436.52
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$288.40
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$89.13
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$295.12
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$2,884.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$223.87
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$309.03

Where Iowa 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

Iowa· 22nd of 51

$1,417

$158 physician + $1,259 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.