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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Alaska rates for HCPCS 21261

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?

$5,888

Typical negotiated rate. In Alaska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,888 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $6,457 from a physician practice, and about $4,571 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$6,457$2,239 to $10,000
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,571$2,754 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,571 · 10th to 90th $2,455 to $12,882Professionalmedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $1,995 to $12,589
$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,571professional $6,457

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. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,079.46
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$16,595.87
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$11,748.98
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,511.89
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$8,128.31
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$12,882.50
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,495.41
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$12,589.25
Premera BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,772.37
Median
$9,772.37
Typical High
$14,125.38
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$12,882.50
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$8,128.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,754.40
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$12,022.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$14,125.38

Where Alaska sits

The same service costs 3.2 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.

Alaska· 3rd of 51

$5,888

CA $7,586KY $2,344

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.