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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Colorado 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?

$3,548

Typical negotiated rate. In Colorado, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,548 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,455 from a physician practice, and about $9,120 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 7 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$2,455$2,399 to $3,467
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9,120$5,370 to $12,882

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9,120 · 10th to 90th $3,020 to $18,197Professionalmedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $2,138 to $5,370
$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $9,120professional $2,455

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
$2,398.83
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$10,715.19
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$4,897.79
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,165.95
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$19,498.45
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,495.41
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$3,801.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$5,128.61
Denver HMP
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,897.79
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$8,317.64
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$4,570.88
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$18,197.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$5,888.44

Where Colorado 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.

Colorado· 15th of 51

$3,548

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.