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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Louisiana 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?

$3,162

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,162 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,020 from a physician practice, and about $3,467 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 5 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$3,020$2,344 to $3,715
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,467$2,570 to $6,607

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,467 · 10th to 90th $933 to $10,233Professionalmedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $4,266
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,467professional $3,020

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
$933.25
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$4,265.80
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,897.79
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$12,302.69
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$3,890.45
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$11,748.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$4,570.88

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 18th of 51

$3,162

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.