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Additional Time Of Moderate Sedation

Minnesota 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?

$25.12

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $25.12 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $23.44 from a physician practice, and about $87.10 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$23.44$15.85 to $33.11
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$87.10$38.02 to $155

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $87 · 10th to 90th $19 to $200Professionalmedian $23 · 10th to 90th $12 to $44
$2$10$50$200facility $87professional $23

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
$12.02
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.12
Median
$13.18
Typical High
$23.44
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$128.82
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$26.30
Typical High
$42.66
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.18
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$120.23
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$33.88
Typical High
$51.29
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$95.50
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$21.38
Median
$30.90
Typical High
$48.98
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$354.81
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$20.42
Typical High
$45.71
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$17.38
Typical High
$17.38
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$44.67

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 4th of 51

$25.12

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.