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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Arizona 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 negotiated rate. In Arizona, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $64.57 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $63.10 from a physician practice, and about $97.72 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$63.10$56.23 to $93.33
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$97.72$61.66 to $257

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $98 · 10th to 90th $55 to $372Professionalmedian $63 · 10th to 90th $50 to $234
$50$100$200$500facility $98professional $63

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
$64.57
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$97.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$239.88
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$43.65
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$43.65
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$467.74
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$104.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$120.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$117.49
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$389.05
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$147.91
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$123.03

Where Arizona 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.

Arizona· 39th 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.