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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Illinois 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?

$3,090

Typical negotiated rate. In Illinois, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,090 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,884 from a physician practice, and about $4,677 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$2,884$2,239 to $4,074
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,677$2,138 to $5,888

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,677 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $10,000Professionalmedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $1,995 to $5,623
$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $4,677professional $2,884

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
$1,148.15
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$5,248.07
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,585.78
Median
$10,232.93
Typical High
$53,703.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,897.79
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$9,332.54
Hally Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$100.00
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,818.38
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,388.44
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$3,090.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$12,882.50
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$5,128.61

Where Illinois 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.

Illinois· 23rd of 51

$3,090

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.