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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 July 2026.

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

$129

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $129 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $126 from a physician practice, and about $166 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$126$87.10 to $170
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$166$107 to $229

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $166 · 10th to 90th $66 to $427Professionalmedian $126 · 10th to 90th $66 to $214
$50$100$200$500facility $166professional $126

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
$66.07
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$66.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$239.88
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$141.25
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$204.17
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$549.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$234.42
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$218.78
Typical High
$426.58
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$218.78
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$169.82
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$257.04
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$81.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$213.80

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 2nd of 51

$129

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.