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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 July 2026.

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

$64.57

Typical physician fee. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $64.57 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $58.88 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $40 · 10th to 90th $33 to $52Professionalmedian $65 · 10th to 90th $56 to $100
$50$100$200facility $40professional $65

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$100.00
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$52.48
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$79.43
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$89.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$81.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$95.50

Where Alabama 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.

Alabama· 37th of 51

$64.57

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.