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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Missouri 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?

$3,020

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,020 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,692 from a physician practice, and about $4,266 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$2,692$2,455 to $3,467
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,266$2,754 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,266 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $8,318Professionalmedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $2,188 to $5,495
$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,266professional $2,692

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
$1,778.28
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$13,182.57
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$8,317.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$4,168.69
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,570.40
Typical High
$3,548.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$5,128.61
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,918.31
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$18,620.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$6,918.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,786.30

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 24th of 51

$3,020

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.