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Additional Sedation Time by a Second Provider

Virginia 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?

$66.07

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $66.07 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $64.57 from a physician practice, and about $74.13 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$64.57$57.54 to $70.79
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$74.13$60.26 to $112

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $74 · 10th to 90th $48 to $166Professionalmedian $65 · 10th to 90th $54 to $89
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $74professional $65

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
$57.54
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$120.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$85.11
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$77.62
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$74.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$100.00
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$89.13
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$114.82
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$117.49
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$67.61
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$45.71
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$213.80
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$123.03
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$123.03
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 Virginia 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.

Virginia· 29th of 51

$66.07

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.