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Additional Time Of Moderate Sedation

Nebraska 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?

$21.88

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $21.88 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $19.05 from a physician practice, and about $60.26 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 8 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$19.05$10.96 to $24.55
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$60.26$41.69 to $155

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $60 · 10th to 90th $17 to $355Professionalmedian $19 · 10th to 90th $10 to $31
$10$50$200$1Kfacility $60professional $19

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
$22.91
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.55
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$30.90
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$28.18
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$186.21
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.00
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$22.91
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$70.79
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14.13
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$32.36
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$131.83
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$89.13
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$20.89
Typical High
$27.54
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$25.70
Oscar Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$3,548.13
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$28.18
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$12.30
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.02
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$25.70

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 7th of 51

$21.88

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.