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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Iowa 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?

$105

Typical physician fee. In Iowa, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $105 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $79.43 to $120.

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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $110 · 10th to 90th $105 to $145Professionalmedian $102 · 10th to 90th $65 to $166
$100$200facility $110professional $102

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
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$147.91
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$199.53
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$144.54
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$389.05
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$125.89
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$218.78
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$128.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$165.96
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$97.72
1 more rate with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$13.80

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 8th of 51

$105

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.