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Follow-Up Intensive Care Day For A Young Child

North Carolina rates for HCPCS 99476

The doctor's care of a critically ill young child on a continuing day in a pediatric intensive care unit, after the day of admission. It covers the full day's work of monitoring, adjusting life-supporting treatment, reviewing results and updating the family. It is charged once for each such day.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Follow-Up Intensive Care Day For A Young Child cost?

$646

Typical physician fee. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $646 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $479 to $708.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $331 · 10th to 90th $331 to $331Professionalmedian $646 · 10th to 90th $355 to $813
$500$1Kfacility $331professional $646

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$346.74
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$812.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$660.69
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$630.96
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$354.81
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$354.81
Typical High
$398.11
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$707.95
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$645.65
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
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$239.88
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$95.50
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
81 · Minimal assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$66.07
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
82 · Assistant surgeon, no resident
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$66.07
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$36.31
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$66.07

Where North Carolina sits

The same service costs 3.0 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.

North Carolina· 5th of 51

$646

AK $813NJ $275

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.