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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Alabama 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 October 2026.

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

$63.10

Typical physician fee. In Alabama, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $63.10 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $53.70 to $70.79.

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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $35 · 10th to 90th $35 to $35Professionalmedian $71 · 10th to 90th $49 to $83
$50$100facility $35professional $71

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$13.18
Median
$14.13
Typical High
$14.13
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$70.79
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$34.67
Typical High
$34.67
BCBS Alabama
Setting
Professional
Modifier
21 + 22 · Increased work + 24 · Unrelated visit after surgery
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$64.57
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$83.18
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$83.18

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 3.1 times more in Alaska than in New York. 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.

Alabama· 37th of 51

$63.10

AK $158NY $51.29

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.