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Custom Palate Build-Up Device, Made And Fitted

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 21082

Covers taking the impression and then designing and fitting a custom device that adds bulk to the roof of the mouth, lowering its surface so that a tongue which can no longer reach it is able to make contact again. It is made for people whose tongue movement has been reduced, often after surgery on the tongue or after nerve damage, so that speech sounds clearer and food can be moved back for swallowing. The roof of the mouth itself is sound; the device is compensating for the tongue.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Custom Palate Build-Up Device, Made And Fitted cost?

$1,585

Typical physician fee. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,585 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $1,288 to $2,042.

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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Professionalmedian $1,585 · 10th to 90th $1,122 to $2,512
$1K$2Kprofessional $1,585

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,398.83
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$2,570.40

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 2.7 times more in Alaska than in Kentucky. 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.

Louisiana· 27th of 51

$1,585

AK $3,548KY $1,318

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.