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Procedure price report · Anesthesia

Sedation by the treating doctor, age 5 and up, first 15 min

CPT 99152the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $183 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,857 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $201. Most fall between $70 and $391 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,857
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 2,857 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
$33$85$183$349$584

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($33 vs $584).

How the prices are spread

$23 – $33: 141 hospitals$23$33 – $47: 134 hospitals$47 – $68: 149 hospitals$47$68 – $98: 256 hospitals$98 – $141: 346 hospitals$98$141 – $204: 374 hospitals$204 – $295: 420 hospitals$204$295 – $426: 404 hospitals$426 – $616: 244 hospitals$426$616 – $890: 107 hospitals$616median $183price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,575 of 2,857 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$23$33141
$33$47134
$47$68149
$68$98256
$98$141346
$141$204374
$204$295420
$295$426404
$426$616244
$616$890107

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $183.

Alaska: median $210 across 16 hospitalsAK$210Maine: median $79 across 22 hospitalsME$79Vermont: median $85 across 13 hospitalsVT$85New Hampshire: median $90 across 20 hospitalsNH$90Washington: median $179 across 69 hospitalsWA$179Idaho: median $250 across 19 hospitalsID$250Montana: median $148 across 28 hospitalsMT$148North Dakota: median $105 across 13 hospitalsND$105Minnesota: median $224 across 90 hospitalsMN$224Illinois: median $205 across 108 hospitalsIL$205Wisconsin: median $153 across 98 hospitalsWI$153Michigan: median $98 across 74 hospitalsMI$98New York: median $92 across 87 hospitalsNY$92Massachusetts: median $87 across 43 hospitalsMA$87Oregon: median $128 across 53 hospitalsOR$128Nevada: median $268 across 20 hospitalsNV$268Wyoming: median $139 across 14 hospitalsWY$139South Dakota: median $132 across 23 hospitalsSD$132Iowa: median $108 across 73 hospitalsIA$108Indiana: median $154 across 72 hospitalsIN$154Ohio: median $308 across 129 hospitalsOH$308Pennsylvania: median $135 across 105 hospitalsPA$135New Jersey: median $185 across 28 hospitalsNJ$185Connecticut: median $162 across 22 hospitalsCT$162Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $261 across 190 hospitalsCA$261Utah: median $508 across 35 hospitalsUT$508Colorado: median $131 across 68 hospitalsCO$131Nebraska: median $140 across 51 hospitalsNE$140Missouri: median $156 across 71 hospitalsMO$156Kentucky: median $239 across 65 hospitalsKY$239West Virginia: median $88 across 38 hospitalsWV$88Virginia: median $171 across 70 hospitalsVA$171Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $168 across 55 hospitalsAZ$168New Mexico: median $251 across 26 hospitalsNM$251Kansas: median $122 across 57 hospitalsKS$122Arkansas: median $87 across 28 hospitalsAR$87Tennessee: median $122 across 56 hospitalsTN$122North Carolina: median $273 across 85 hospitalsNC$273South Carolina: median $274 across 46 hospitalsSC$274Oklahoma: median $113 across 64 hospitalsOK$113Louisiana: median $92 across 41 hospitalsLA$92Mississippi: median $129 across 44 hospitalsMS$129Alabama: median $116 across 30 hospitalsAL$116Georgia: median $262 across 93 hospitalsGA$262Hawaii: median $155 across 19 hospitalsHI$155Texas: median $232 across 211 hospitalsTX$232Florida: median $513 across 155 hospitalsFL$513
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $183. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL155$513+180%$210 – $998
Utah UT35$508+178%$132 – $615
Ohio OH129$308+68%$159 – $396
South Carolina SC46$274+50%$158 – $391
North Carolina NC85$273+49%$146 – $362
Nevada NV20$268+47%$95 – $369
Georgia GA93$262+43%$72 – $567
California CA190$261+43%$113 – $420
New Mexico NM26$251+37%$102 – $474
Idaho ID19$250+37%$27 – $599
Kentucky KY65$239+31%$52 – $414
Texas TX211$232+27%$143 – $527
Minnesota MN90$224+22%$88 – $346
Alaska AK16$210+15%$171 – $458
Illinois IL108$205+12%$80 – $431
New Jersey NJ28$185+1%$49 – $505
Washington WA69$179−2%$118 – $360
Virginia VA70$171−7%$84 – $317
Arizona AZ55$168−8%$91 – $644
Connecticut CT22$162−12%$59 – $337
Missouri MO71$156−15%$57 – $270
Hawaii HI19$155−15%$78 – $538
Indiana IN72$154−16%$35 – $306
Wisconsin WI98$153−17%$85 – $335
Montana MT28$148−19%$41 – $188
Nebraska NE51$140−23%$76 – $217
Wyoming WY14$139−24%$104 – $403
Pennsylvania PA105$135−26%$41 – $375
South Dakota SD23$132−28%$94 – $243
Colorado CO68$131−28%$29 – $277
Mississippi MS44$129−29%$34 – $220
Oregon OR53$128−30%$36 – $236
Kansas KS57$122−33%$50 – $297
Tennessee TN56$122−34%$64 – $456
Alabama AL30$116−37%$30 – $596
Oklahoma OK64$113−39%$54 – $238
Iowa IA73$108−41%$43 – $223
North Dakota ND13$105−43%$46 – $156
Michigan MI74$98−46%$27 – $278
Louisiana LA41$92−50%$18 – $245
New York NY87$92−50%$32 – $202
New Hampshire NH20$90−51%$45 – $230
West Virginia WV38$88−52%$57 – $218
Arkansas AR28$87−52%$32 – $120
Massachusetts MA43$87−52%$33 – $194
Vermont VT13$85−54%$25 – $454
Maine ME22$79−57%$44 – $121
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not 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 $183.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care2,052$218$77 – $429
Children’s60$312$136 – $510
Critical access735$130$51 – $281
Ownership
For-profit412$282$92 – $783
Government481$142$52 – $319
Non-profit1,954$176$72 – $375
System affiliation
Part of a system2,365$198$76 – $403
Independent492$132$39 – $298

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$335
Median cash price$183
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

2,079 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $211 and the average of the middle 60% is $214; most fall between $78 and $391.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 2,079 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
$38$97$211$353$548

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $548).

Of the 2,224 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 2,079 gave a usable cash price; 41 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 104 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,857 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (72%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 3,096 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,857
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here74
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 — excluded163
Hospitals that filed this code3,096

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, age 5 and up, first 15 min (CPT 99152) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99152-sedation-by-the-treating-doctor-age-5-and-up-first-15-min