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Daily Newborn Care, Healthy Baby

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 99462

This covers a doctor's daily check-in visit for a healthy newborn who is still staying in the hospital after birth. The doctor examines the baby, reviews feeding and weight trends, and checks for early signs of a developing problem. It's billed once for each day of the follow-up hospital stay, separate from the visit on the day of birth itself.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Daily Newborn Care, Healthy Baby cost?

$41.69

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $41.69 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $41.69 from a physician practice, and about $48.98 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$41.69$33.88 to $57.54
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$48.98$43.65 to $83.18

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $49 · 10th to 90th $42 to $117Professionalmedian $42 · 10th to 90th $30 to $135
$50$100facility $49professional $42

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
$40.74
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$60.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$40.74
Typical High
$134.90
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$57.54
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$144.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$53.70
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$48.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$45.71
Typical High
$79.43
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$67.61

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.8 times more in Wisconsin than in Rhode Island. 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· 35th of 51

$41.69

WI $95.50RI $34.67

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.