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Extended Advance Care Planning Discussion

Colorado rates for HCPCS 99498

This is an extended conversation between a patient and their healthcare provider about future medical care wishes, including decisions about treatments a person would or would not want if seriously ill. It covers additional time spent beyond an initial advance care planning discussion, often completing or updating documents like a living will or healthcare proxy.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Extended Advance Care Planning Discussion cost?

$91.20

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $91.20 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $91.20 from a physician practice, and about $81.28 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$91.20$75.86 to $115
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$81.28$63.10 to $100

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $81 · 10th to 90th $63 to $112Professionalmedian $91 · 10th to 90th $63 to $141
$50$100$200facility $81professional $91

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
$63.10
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$100.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$63.10
Typical High
$81.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$33.11
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$144.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$138.04
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$63.10
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$112.20
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$141.25
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$165.96
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$58.88
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$107.15
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$131.83
1 more rate 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
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
HO · Master's level
Typical Low
$47.86
Median
$60.26
Typical High
$75.86

Where Colorado sits

The same service costs 3.0 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.

Colorado· 16th of 51

$91.20

AK $174NY $57.54

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.