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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

New Jersey 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?

$2,570

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,570 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,512 from a physician practice, and about $7,762 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$2,512$2,188 to $3,548
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,762$5,129 to $10,471

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,762 · 10th to 90th $4,266 to $14,791Professionalmedian $2,512 · 10th to 90th $1,995 to $6,761
$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,762professional $2,512

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
$4,265.80
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$12,302.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$5,888.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$6,918.31
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$3,715.35
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12,022.64
Median
$19,054.61
Typical High
$30,902.95
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$11,220.18
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$19,498.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$5,888.44

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 39th of 51

$2,570

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.