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Sedation by the treating doctor, under age 5, first 15 min

CPT 99151the billing code this page is about

Moderate (conscious) sedation given by the same clinician performing the procedure, for a patient younger than 5; covers the first 15 minutes of sedation time.

Hospitals typically charge $192 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,388 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $211. Most fall between $83 and $411 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,388
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,388 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$46$100$192$367$633

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($46 vs $633).

How the prices are spread

$29 – $41: 76 hospitals$29$41 – $58: 111 hospitals$58 – $81: 147 hospitals$58$81 – $113: 238 hospitals$113 – $158: 345 hospitals$113$158 – $221: 253 hospitals$221 – $309: 359 hospitals$221$309 – $432: 295 hospitals$432 – $604: 192 hospitals$432$604 – $845: 135 hospitals$604median $192price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,151 of 2,388 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$29$4176
$41$58111
$58$81147
$81$113238
$113$158345
$158$221253
$221$309359
$309$432295
$432$604192
$604$845135

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $192.

Alaska: median $350 across 13 hospitalsAK$350Maine: median $100 across 20 hospitalsME$100Vermont: median $126 across 13 hospitalsVT$126New Hampshire: median $78 across 22 hospitalsNH$78Washington: median $229 across 62 hospitalsWA$229Idaho: median $307 across 14 hospitalsID$307Montana: median $154 across 19 hospitalsMT$154North Dakota: median $154 across 11 hospitalsND$154Minnesota: median $252 across 76 hospitalsMN$252Illinois: median $270 across 87 hospitalsIL$270Wisconsin: median $179 across 92 hospitalsWI$179Michigan: median $122 across 78 hospitalsMI$122New York: median $100 across 65 hospitalsNY$100Massachusetts: median $122 across 37 hospitalsMA$122Oregon: median $136 across 47 hospitalsOR$136Nevada: median $253 across 17 hospitalsNV$253Wyoming: median $179 across 12 hospitalsWY$179South Dakota: median $182 across 16 hospitalsSD$182Iowa: median $111 across 52 hospitalsIA$111Indiana: median $183 across 68 hospitalsIN$183Ohio: median $324 across 104 hospitalsOH$324Pennsylvania: median $129 across 81 hospitalsPA$129New Jersey: median $365 across 22 hospitalsNJ$365Connecticut: median $258 across 17 hospitalsCT$258Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $296 across 166 hospitalsCA$296Utah: median $481 across 29 hospitalsUT$481Colorado: median $121 across 61 hospitalsCO$121Nebraska: median $146 across 38 hospitalsNE$146Missouri: median $140 across 59 hospitalsMO$140Kentucky: median $167 across 54 hospitalsKY$167West Virginia: median $89 across 32 hospitalsWV$89Virginia: median $149 across 46 hospitalsVA$149Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $147 across 52 hospitalsAZ$147New Mexico: median $178 across 21 hospitalsNM$178Kansas: median $113 across 41 hospitalsKS$113Arkansas: median $107 across 23 hospitalsAR$107Tennessee: median $122 across 45 hospitalsTN$122North Carolina: median $273 across 76 hospitalsNC$273South Carolina: median $304 across 39 hospitalsSC$304Oklahoma: median $115 across 57 hospitalsOK$115Louisiana: median $65 across 38 hospitalsLA$65Mississippi: median $141 across 34 hospitalsMS$141Alabama: median $112 across 24 hospitalsAL$112Georgia: median $405 across 82 hospitalsGA$405Hawaii: median $182 across 15 hospitalsHI$182Texas: median $240 across 182 hospitalsTX$240Florida: median $489 across 115 hospitalsFL$489
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $192. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL115$489+155%$192 – $830
Utah UT29$481+151%$140 – $535
Georgia GA82$405+111%$192 – $678
New Jersey NJ22$365+90%$85 – $936
Alaska AK13$350+82%$81 – $703
Ohio OH104$324+69%$168 – $738
Idaho ID14$307+60%$55 – $599
South Carolina SC39$304+58%$120 – $381
California CA166$296+54%$142 – $639
North Carolina NC76$273+42%$166 – $376
Illinois IL87$270+41%$100 – $412
Connecticut CT17$258+34%$110 – $338
Nevada NV17$253+32%$140 – $369
Minnesota MN76$252+31%$158 – $381
Texas TX182$240+25%$139 – $606
Washington WA62$229+20%$121 – $394
Indiana IN68$183−5%$59 – $306
South Dakota SD16$182−5%$140 – $199
Hawaii HI15$182−5%$109 – $306
Wyoming WY12$179−7%$152 – $284
Wisconsin WI92$179−7%$95 – $351
New Mexico NM21$178−7%$102 – $387
Kentucky KY54$167−13%$47 – $442
Montana MT19$154−20%$72 – $236
North Dakota ND11$154−20%$60 – $209
Virginia VA46$149−23%$109 – $223
Arizona AZ52$147−23%$91 – $644
Nebraska NE38$146−24%$45 – $206
Mississippi MS34$141−27%$46 – $220
Missouri MO59$140−27%$87 – $270
Oregon OR47$136−29%$69 – $282
Pennsylvania PA81$129−33%$30 – $367
Vermont VT13$126−34%$38 – $462
Michigan MI78$122−36%$30 – $325
Massachusetts MA37$122−37%$67 – $187
Tennessee TN45$122−37%$63 – $199
Colorado CO61$121−37%$44 – $244
Oklahoma OK57$115−40%$57 – $271
Kansas KS41$113−41%$81 – $267
Alabama AL24$112−41%$35 – $354
Iowa IA52$111−42%$52 – $255
Arkansas AR23$107−44%$88 – $131
Maine ME20$100−48%$44 – $174
New York NY65$100−48%$60 – $239
West Virginia WV32$89−53%$26 – $271
New Hampshire NH22$78−59%$32 – $246
Louisiana LA38$65−66%$21 – $185
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $192.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,740$224$88 – $460
Children’s49$273$122 – $550
Critical access590$142$67 – $293
Ownership
For-profit284$246$105 – $633
Government379$170$67 – $365
Non-profit1,716$188$85 – $407
System affiliation
Part of a system1,990$203$88 – $427
Independent398$157$69 – $314

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$361
Median cash price$192
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,776 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $225 and the average of the middle 60% is $233; most fall between $90 and $436.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,776 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$54$109$225$383$644

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($54 vs $644).

Of the 1,897 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,776 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 90 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,388 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (60%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,574 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,388
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded141
Hospitals that filed this code2,574

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Anesthesia family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Mod Sed Same Phys/Qhp Initial 15 Mins <5 Yrs.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Sedation by the treating doctor, under age 5, first 15 min (CPT 99151) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99151-sedation-by-the-treating-doctor-under-age-5-first-15-min