C-section delivery

What's included

Each component is a category of charge that contributes to the total bill. Items marked “billed separately” are still part of the episode, but you'll receive that bill from a different provider.

• Cesarean delivery

  Base procedure

  CPT 59510 · CPT 59514

• Inpatient stay (MS-DRG bundle)

  Facility

  When the hospital reports the entire stay as one bundled MS-DRG row.

  MS-DRG 786 · MS-DRG 787 · MS-DRG 788

• Anesthesia

  AnesthesiaBilled separately

  Typically billed separately by an anesthesia group.

  CPT 01961

  Medicare professional benchmark: — facility / — non-facility (CMS PFS 2026)

• Operating room / facility

  Facility

  REVENUE 0360

Provider prices — cash

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Median cash-pay price across components that hospitals have published for this package. Completeness reflects how many of the package's expected components had matching data. Partial rows missing only a benchmarked professional component show a separate published-plus-CMS estimate. Public pages show up to 50 hospitals at a time; use ZIP search to narrow the list.

Provider prices — negotiated

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Lowest negotiated rate the hospital or insurer has published for this package. Each row is labeled with its source — Hospital MRF or Payer Transparency in Coverage file. Use the insurer selector to switch between the cross-payer rollup and per-insurer rates. Rows from TiC files older than 3 months are dimmed. Partial rows missing only a benchmarked professional component show a separate published-plus-CMS estimate. Public pages show a comparison-sized sample; bulk provider exports belong in the data API.

Common questions

What's included in the c-section delivery package?

Surgical delivery of a baby via cesarean section. Inpatient stay typically 2–4 nights. Surgeon, anesthesia, hospital facility, and newborn care are all part of the episode but may be billed under separate codes or even by separate provider groups.

What's typically billed separately for c-section delivery?

These components are usually billed by a different provider on a separate invoice: anesthesia. They're still part of the episode of care.

How does the c-section delivery package price get calculated?

Cleartau sums per-component representative prices across the procedure, facility, anesthesia, and (where applicable) implant lines. The package median equals the sum of per-component medians; min and max work the same way. When a hospital publishes a formula (e.g. "150% of Medicare") instead of a dollar amount, the formula is resolved against the matching CMS fee schedule before aggregation.

Also known as

cesarean delivery package · cesarean section package · c section package