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Complex Chronic Care Management, First Hour

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 99487

This service covers the first hour, per month, of behind-the-scenes care coordination for a person with multiple serious, ongoing health conditions. Clinical staff spend this time each month organizing care between different providers, managing medications, and addressing complex needs that require significant medical decision-making, typically without the patient being present. It reflects a higher level of coordination than routine chronic condition management.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Complex Chronic Care Management, First Hour cost?

$85.11

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $85.11 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $83.18 from a physician practice, and about $129 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$83.18$53.70 to $91.20
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$129$129 to $209

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $129 · 10th to 90th $100 to $295Professionalmedian $83 · 10th to 90th $51 to $110
$50$100$200$500facility $129professional $83

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
$50.12
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$147.91
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$83.18
Typical High
$91.20
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$25.70
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$45.71
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$144.54
BCBS Louisiana
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$309.03
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$128.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$128.82
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$489.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$50.12
Median
$85.11
Typical High
$125.89

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 3.4 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. 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· 44th of 51

$85.11

AK $219KY $64.57

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.