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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

North Dakota 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?

$4,677

Typical negotiated rate. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,677 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $4,677 from a physician practice, and about $2,455 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$4,677$2,455 to $5,495
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,455$2,455 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $2,399 to $8,511Professionalmedian $4,677 · 10th to 90th $2,138 to $6,310
$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,455professional $4,677

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
$2,454.71
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$6,456.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,265.80
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$6,309.57
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$7,413.10
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$7,413.10
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$18,620.87
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$8,912.51
Typical High
$11,748.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$6,025.60

Where North Dakota 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.

North Dakota· 5th of 51

$4,677

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.