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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Minnesota 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?

$110

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $110 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $110 from a physician practice, and about $141 from a hospital or other facility.

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.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$110$81.28 to $151
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$141$61.66 to $1,047

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $141 · 10th to 90th $62 to $1,047Professionalmedian $110 · 10th to 90th $62 to $200
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $141professional $110

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
$61.66
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$1,047.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$61.66
Typical High
$64.57
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$151.36
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$169.82
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$229.09
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$426.58
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$213.80
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$281.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$389.05
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$239.88
2 more rates 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
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$12.30
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$11.75
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$12.30

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$110

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.