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Complex Chronic Care Management, First Hour

North Carolina 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?

$102

Typical physician fee. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $102 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $75.86 to $129.

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.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $129 · 10th to 90th $91 to $162Professionalmedian $102 · 10th to 90th $62 to $170
$100$200facility $129professional $102

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
$91.20
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$44.67
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$64.57
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$138.04
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$169.82
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$186.21
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$162.18
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$102.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$208.93
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
$31.62
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$51.29
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$12.59
Median
$12.59
Typical High
$20.42
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
81 · Minimal assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$14.45
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
82 · Assistant surgeon, no resident
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$14.45
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$8.71
Typical High
$14.45

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 25th of 51

$102

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.