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Follow-Up Care After Leaving the Hospital, Moderate

North Carolina rates for HCPCS 99495

This service covers coordinated follow-up care provided to a patient during the weeks after being discharged from a hospital or facility stay, including a check-in and a required follow-up office visit. It applies to cases involving a moderate level of medical decision-making during that transition period.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Follow-Up Care After Leaving the Hospital, Moderate cost?

$174

Typical physician fee. In North Carolina, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $174 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $148 to $219.

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 $186 · 10th to 90th $141 to $251Professionalmedian $174 · 10th to 90th $95 to $263
$100$200facility $186professional $174

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
$141.25
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$213.80
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$199.53
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$100.00
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$245.47
BCBS North Carolina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$95.50
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$263.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$309.03
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$251.19
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$177.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$316.23
6 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
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
25 · Same-day visit
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$295.12
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$89.13
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
80 · Assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$25.12
Median
$25.12
Typical High
$35.48
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
81 · Minimal assistant surgeon
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$24.55
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
82 · Assistant surgeon, no resident
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$24.55
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
AS · PA/NP assist
Typical Low
$17.78
Median
$17.78
Typical High
$24.55

Where North Carolina sits

The same service costs 2.8 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· 17th of 51

$174

AK $339KY $120

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.