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Additional Time Of Moderate Sedation

Delaware rates for HCPCS 99153

This covers extra time of moderate sedation, medicine given to keep a patient relaxed and comfortable during a procedure while still able to respond to voice or touch, beyond the initial period already covered separately. It is billed alongside a procedure performed by the same clinician giving the sedation, reflecting added monitoring time rather than a separate service.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Additional Time Of Moderate Sedation cost?

$12.30

Typical negotiated rate. In Delaware, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $12.30 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11.75 from a physician practice, and about $166 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 4 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$11.75$11.22 to $12.88
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$166$56.23 to $479

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $166 · 10th to 90th $11 to $501Professionalmedian $12 · 10th to 90th $10 to $28
$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $166professional $12

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
$11.22
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$501.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$27.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$19.95
Highmark BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$169.82
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$354.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.22
Median
$11.22
Typical High
$11.22
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$26.92

Where Delaware sits

The same service costs 5.8 times more in West Virginia than in Kentucky. 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.

Delaware· 45th of 51

$12.30

WV $61.66KY $10.72

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.