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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Minnesota rates for HCPCS 21260

Reconstructive surgery for a person whose eye sockets sit abnormally far apart, usually because of a difference in the way the skull and face formed before birth. The bone around each eye socket is cut free as a block, moved toward the midline, and secured in its corrected position.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer cost?

$3,388

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,388 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,311 from a physician practice, and about $7,244 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$3,311$2,455 to $4,467
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,244$3,802 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,244 · 10th to 90th $2,138 to $19,953Professionalmedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $1,698 to $5,129
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,244professional $3,311

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
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$1,380.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$2,137.96
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,762.47
Median
$13,803.84
Typical High
$30,902.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$4,897.79
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$13,182.57
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$6,025.60
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,715.35
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$10,471.29
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,370.32
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$10,232.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$7,585.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$15,135.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$5,128.61

Where Minnesota sits

The same service costs 5.6 times more in California 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$3,388

CA $7,413KY $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.