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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Alaska rates for HCPCS 99157

This covers each additional block of time that a separate qualified provider spends administering sedation medication and monitoring a patient during a procedure performed by a different physician. It is used when a procedure runs longer than the initial sedation period already accounted for.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider cost?

$145

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $145 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $158 from a physician practice, and about $95.50 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$158$79.43 to $200
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$95.50$69.18 to $170

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $95 · 10th to 90th $59 to $3,715Professionalmedian $158 · 10th to 90th $60 to $240
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $95professional $158

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
$389.05
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$3,890.45
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$169.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$204.17
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$141.25
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$218.78
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$288.40
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$141.25
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$204.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$309.03

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 2.5 times more in Alaska than in Washington, DC. 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.

Alaska· 1st of 51

$145

AK $145DC $57.54

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.