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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Minnesota 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 Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,888 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5,754 from a physician practice, and about $9,772 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$5,754$4,266 to $7,943
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9,772$6,761 to $18,197

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9,772 · 10th to 90th $3,090 to $22,387Professionalmedian $5,754 · 10th to 90th $2,951 to $8,913
$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $9,772professional $5,754

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
$2,398.83
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$3,801.89
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$14,791.08
Typical High
$42,657.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$8,709.64
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$23,442.29
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$7,079.46
Typical High
$10,471.29
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,456.54
Median
$9,332.54
Typical High
$18,197.01
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$9,332.54
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$10,471.29
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$13,489.63
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$15,135.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,120.11

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 4th 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.