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Complex Chronic Care Management, First Hour

South 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?

$110

Typical negotiated rate. In South Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $110 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $110 from a physician practice, and about $174 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$110$75.86 to $138
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$174$110 to $195

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $174 · 10th to 90th $83 to $251Professionalmedian $110 · 10th to 90th $76 to $214
$50$100$200$500$1Kfacility $174professional $110

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
$75.86
Median
$75.86
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$109.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$38.02
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$54.95
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$117.49
Typical High
$138.04
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$204.17
BCBS South Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
29
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$138.04
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$190.55
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$83.18
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$251.19
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$151.36
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$257.04
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$741.31
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$1,174.90
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$141.25
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
$30.90
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$95.50
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$12.30
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$38.02
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
81 · Minimal assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$26.30
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
82 · Assistant surgeon, no resident
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$26.30
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$8.71
Median
$12.30
Typical High
$26.30

Where South 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.

South Carolina· 19th of 51

$110

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.