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Extended Advance Care Planning Discussion

Massachusetts 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?

$97.72

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $97.72 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $100 from a physician practice, and about $70.79 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 10 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$100$75.86 to $178
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$70.79$51.29 to $91.20

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $71 · 10th to 90th $42 to $107Professionalmedian $100 · 10th to 90th $68 to $224
$50$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $71professional $100

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
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$85.11
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$173.78
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$457.09
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$70.79
Typical High
$162.18
BCBS Massachusetts
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$70.79
Median
$89.13
Typical High
$151.36
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$154.88
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$102.33
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$51.29
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$131.83
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$213.80
Health New England
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$64.57
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$173.78
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$61.66
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$457.09
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$97.72
Typical High
$213.80
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$123.03
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$52.48
Median
$102.33
Typical High
$3,019.95
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
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$35.48
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
TD · Registered nurse
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$79.43
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
SA · Nurse practitioner
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$79.43
Typical High
$79.43
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
TD · Registered nurse
Typical Low
$74.13
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$79.43
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
U6 · State-defined
Typical Low
$87.10
Median
$93.33
Typical High
$93.33

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 13th of 51

$97.72

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.