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Critical Care, Each Additional 30 Minutes

Massachusetts 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?

$178

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $178 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $178 from a physician practice, and about $138 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 11 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$178$123 to $302
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$138$107 to $269

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $138 · 10th to 90th $71 to $355Professionalmedian $178 · 10th to 90th $110 to $417
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $138professional $178

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
$107.15
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$316.23
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$281.84
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$446.68
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$1,174.90
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$354.81
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$251.19
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$257.04
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$162.18
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$223.87
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$371.54
Health New England
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$2,570.40
Health New England
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$190.55
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$933.25
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$446.68
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$1,174.90
Tufts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$190.55
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$346.74
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$85.11
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$181.97
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$107.15
5 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
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$53.70
Median
$58.88
Typical High
$63.10
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$15.85
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$19.05
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$10.72
Median
$11.75
Typical High
$12.59
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
HO · Master's level
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$85.11
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
SB · Nurse midwife
Typical Low
$66.07
Median
$66.07
Typical High
$93.33

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 11th of 51

$178

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.