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Postpartum Care Only

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 59430

This covers routine follow-up medical care after childbirth, separate from the delivery itself, checking on physical recovery and overall health in the weeks after giving birth. It is billed when postpartum care is provided without the provider also having handled the pregnancy and delivery.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Postpartum Care Only cost?

$479

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $479 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $468 from a physician practice, and about $759 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 6 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$468$309 to $631
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$759$380 to $1,259

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $759 · 10th to 90th $234 to $1,950Professionalmedian $468 · 10th to 90th $200 to $832
$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $759professional $468

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
$151.36
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$234.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$630.96
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,949.84
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$2,454.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$1,096.48
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$691.83
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,949.84
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,000.00
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$3,019.95
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$446.68
Typical High
$1,288.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$794.33

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 3.8 times more in Alaska than in Rhode Island. 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$479

AK $603RI $158

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.