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Ongoing Daily Care For A Very Low Birth Weight Newborn

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 99478

A newborn who is not critically ill but still needs a high level of monitoring, most often because of a very low birth weight, receives ongoing daily medical management in the hospital. This covers each additional day of this intensive newborn care for the smallest, lowest-weight babies, rather than the initial day of care or care for a critically ill infant.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Ongoing Daily Care For A Very Low Birth Weight Newborn cost?

$141

Typical physician fee. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $141 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $129 to $151.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $141 · 10th to 90th $129 to $174
$100$200professional $141

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
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$141.25
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$151.36
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$165.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$151.36
Typical High
$186.21

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 2.9 times more in Alaska than in New York. 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.

Rhode Island· 34th of 51

$141

AK $324NY $112

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.