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Additional Time Of Moderate Sedation

Maryland 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?

$13.80

Typical physician fee. In Maryland, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $13.80 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $11.48 to $22.91.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $214 · 10th to 90th $72 to $479Professionalmedian $14 · 10th to 90th $10 to $30
$5$10$20$50$100$200$500facility $214professional $14

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
$72.44
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$478.63
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$29.51
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$14.45
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.47
Median
$12.88
Typical High
$22.91
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$14.79
Typical High
$19.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$28.18
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$19.05

Where Maryland 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.

Maryland· 34th of 51

$13.80

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.