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Procedure price report · Anesthesia

Sedation by a second doctor, under age 5, first 15 minutes

CPT 99155the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $207 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,826 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $222. Most fall between $99 and $426 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,826
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 1,826 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
$70$119$207$367$588

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($70 vs $588).

How the prices are spread

$49 – $65: 74 hospitals$49$65 – $85: 121 hospitals$85 – $113: 142 hospitals$85$113 – $148: 212 hospitals$148 – $195: 230 hospitals$148$195 – $257: 241 hospitals$257 – $339: 206 hospitals$257$339 – $447: 174 hospitals$447 – $589: 158 hospitals$447$589 – $776: 88 hospitals$589median $207price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,646 of 1,826 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$49$6574
$65$85121
$85$113142
$113$148212
$148$195230
$195$257241
$257$339206
$339$447174
$447$589158
$589$77688

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $207.

Alaska: median $346 across 12 hospitalsAK$346Maine: median $121 across 19 hospitalsME$121Vermont: median $225 across 11 hospitalsVT$225New Hampshire: median $107 across 13 hospitalsNH$107Washington: median $202 across 56 hospitalsWA$202Idaho: median $529 across 15 hospitalsID$529Montana: median $216 across 16 hospitalsMT$216North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $237 across 67 hospitalsMN$237Illinois: median $270 across 61 hospitalsIL$270Wisconsin: median $198 across 55 hospitalsWI$198Michigan: median $140 across 58 hospitalsMI$140New York: median $154 across 51 hospitalsNY$154Massachusetts: median $279 across 25 hospitalsMA$279Oregon: median $184 across 34 hospitalsOR$184Nevada: median $251 across 12 hospitalsNV$251Wyoming: median $213 across 11 hospitalsWY$213South Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $135 across 41 hospitalsIA$135Indiana: median $129 across 46 hospitalsIN$129Ohio: median $389 across 72 hospitalsOH$389Pennsylvania: median $131 across 61 hospitalsPA$131New Jersey: median $197 across 17 hospitalsNJ$197Connecticut: median $341 across 13 hospitalsCT$341Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $273 across 134 hospitalsCA$273Utah: median $529 across 30 hospitalsUT$529Colorado: median $191 across 49 hospitalsCO$191Nebraska: median $161 across 32 hospitalsNE$161Missouri: median $153 across 47 hospitalsMO$153Kentucky: median $150 across 35 hospitalsKY$150West Virginia: median $109 across 23 hospitalsWV$109Virginia: median $194 across 54 hospitalsVA$194Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $151 across 45 hospitalsAZ$151New Mexico: median $290 across 17 hospitalsNM$290Kansas: median $138 across 35 hospitalsKS$138Arkansas: median $138 across 10 hospitalsAR$138Tennessee: median $92 across 38 hospitalsTN$92North Carolina: median $234 across 57 hospitalsNC$234South Carolina: median $241 across 34 hospitalsSC$241Oklahoma: median $139 across 34 hospitalsOK$139Louisiana: median $83 across 25 hospitalsLA$83Mississippi: median $119 across 18 hospitalsMS$119Alabama: median $126 across 13 hospitalsAL$126Georgia: median $280 across 56 hospitalsGA$280Hawaii: median $155 across 12 hospitalsHI$155Texas: median $228 across 140 hospitalsTX$228Florida: median $410 across 94 hospitalsFL$410
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $207. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID15$529+155%$125 – $599
Utah UT30$529+155%$122 – $588
Florida FL94$410+98%$198 – $582
Ohio OH72$389+88%$172 – $494
Alaska AK12$346+67%$210 – $694
Connecticut CT13$341+65%$151 – $1,214
New Mexico NM17$290+40%$136 – $379
Georgia GA56$280+35%$140 – $496
Massachusetts MA25$279+35%$150 – $327
California CA134$273+32%$163 – $466
Illinois IL61$270+30%$120 – $515
Nevada NV12$251+21%$203 – $338
South Carolina SC34$241+16%$158 – $448
Minnesota MN67$237+14%$158 – $360
North Carolina NC57$234+13%$101 – $485
Texas TX140$228+10%$152 – $371
Vermont VT11$225+9%$119 – $426
Montana MT16$216+4%$121 – $292
Wyoming WY11$213+3%$165 – $265
Washington WA56$202−2%$128 – $415
Wisconsin WI55$198−4%$85 – $252
New Jersey NJ17$197−5%$57 – $456
Virginia VA54$194−6%$121 – $426
Colorado CO49$191−8%$16 – $332
Oregon OR34$184−11%$144 – $309
Nebraska NE32$161−22%$129 – $210
Hawaii HI12$155−25%$139 – $246
New York NY51$154−26%$67 – $282
Missouri MO47$153−26%$111 – $270
Arizona AZ45$151−27%$104 – $533
Kentucky KY35$150−28%$49 – $553
Michigan MI58$140−32%$92 – $523
Oklahoma OK34$139−33%$63 – $246
Kansas KS35$138−33%$73 – $325
Arkansas AR10$138−33%$85 – $256
Iowa IA41$135−35%$93 – $256
Pennsylvania PA61$131−37%$44 – $395
Indiana IN46$129−38%$75 – $268
Alabama AL13$126−39%$76 – $279
Maine ME19$121−42%$46 – $320
Mississippi MS18$119−43%$82 – $206
West Virginia WV23$109−47%$88 – $224
New Hampshire NH13$107−48%$66 – $364
Tennessee TN38$92−56%$79 – $156
Louisiana LA25$83−60%$64 – $187
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $207.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,385$220$100 – $445
Children’s50$355$178 – $698
Critical access384$167$96 – $315
Ownership
For-profit192$258$116 – $603
Government273$188$89 – $355
Non-profit1,354$206$101 – $424
System affiliation
Part of a system1,546$207$99 – $426
Independent280$188$107 – $365

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$370
Median cash price$207
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

1,403 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $228 and the average of the middle 60% is $243; most fall between $107 and $462.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,403 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
$73$126$228$398$604

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($73 vs $604).

Of the 1,483 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,403 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,826 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (46%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,954 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,826
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded97
Hospitals that filed this code1,954

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 Other 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 a second doctor, under age 5, first 15 minutes (CPT 99155) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-99155-sedation-by-a-second-doctor-under-age-5-first-15-minutes