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Critical Care, Each Additional 30 Minutes

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 99292

This covers extra time a doctor spends providing critical care to a patient with a life-threatening condition, billed in addition to the first period of critical care already accounted for. It applies when a critically ill patient requires ongoing, intensive attention beyond that initial period.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Critical Care, Each Additional 30 Minutes cost?

$120

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $120 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $120 from a physician practice, and about $107 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$120$100 to $138
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$107$107 to $955

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $107 · 10th to 90th $0 to $1,445Professionalmedian $120 · 10th to 90th $91 to $182
$0.1$1$10$100$1Kfacility $107professional $120

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
$109.65
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$120.23
Typical High
$186.21
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$19.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$12.88
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$173.78
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,380.38
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$147.91
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$107.15
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,548.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$194.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$190.55
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
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
25 · Same-day visit
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$263.03

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.7 times more in Alaska than in New Jersey. 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.

Louisiana· 32nd of 51

$120

AK $263NJ $97.72

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.