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Extended Clinical Staff Time During an Office Visit

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 99415

This covers additional time that clinical staff, such as a nurse, spend directly with a patient during an office visit, beyond what a typical visit usually requires, while a physician remains available for supervision. It is billed in addition to the main visit when extra hands-on staff time is needed to complete the care being provided.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Extended Clinical Staff Time During an Office Visit cost?

$9.55

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $9.55 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $9.55 from a physician practice, and about $9.77 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$9.55$8.51 to $15.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9.77$9.12 to $11.22

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $10 · 10th to 90th $9 to $25Professionalmedian $10 · 10th to 90th $8 to $19
$0.1$1$10facility $10professional $10

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
$9.12
Median
$9.55
Typical High
$25.12
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.76
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$19.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
25 · Same-day visit
Typical Low
$18.62
Median
$18.62
Typical High
$18.62
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$23.44
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
25 · Same-day visit
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$22.91
Typical High
$22.91
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$0.02
Median
$0.02
Typical High
$0.02
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$16.98
Typical High
$16.98
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.77
Median
$9.77
Typical High
$21.88
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.13
Median
$13.80
Typical High
$28.18
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$25.70
Typical High
$25.70
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7.24
Median
$10.00
Typical High
$18.20

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 4.7 times more in Minnesota than in Kansas. 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· 45th of 51

$9.55

MN $39.81KS $8.51

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.