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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Iowa 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?

$3,802

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,802 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,715 from a physician practice, and about $6,457 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$3,715$2,455 to $5,370
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,457$4,677 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,457 · 10th to 90th $3,802 to $13,490Professionalmedian $3,715 · 10th to 90th $2,188 to $7,762
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,457professional $3,715

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
$3,801.89
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$14,791.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$6,918.31
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$6,760.83
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$14,791.08
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$18,620.87
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$7,762.47
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$15,488.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$6,606.93
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$5,370.32

Where Iowa 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.

Iowa· 10th of 51

$3,802

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.