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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Arkansas 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?

$70.79

Typical negotiated rate. In Arkansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $70.79 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $70.79 from a physician practice, and about $74.13 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 4 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$70.79$56.23 to $75.86
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$74.13$74.13 to $100

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $74 · 10th to 90th $74 to $162Professionalmedian $71 · 10th to 90th $47 to $89
$50$100facility $74professional $71

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
$74.13
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$46.77
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$89.13
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$75.86
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$61.66
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$107.15
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$81.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$104.71

Where Arkansas 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.

Arkansas· 22nd of 51

$70.79

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.