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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Pennsylvania 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?

$2,512

Typical negotiated rate. In Pennsylvania, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,512 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,455 from a physician practice, and about $5,370 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 9 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$2,455$2,188 to $2,818
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,370$2,512 to $8,128

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $8,511Professionalmedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $2,089 to $3,548
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,370professional $2,455

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
$1,412.54
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,162.28
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9,549.93
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$57,543.99
Capital Blue Cross
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$3,715.35
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$3,801.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$4,786.30
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$4,466.84
Geisinger
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,677.35
Martin's Point
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$8,317.64
Martin's Point
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,801.89
Oscar Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$10.96
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,454.71
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,344.23
UPMC Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$2,511.89
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$17,378.01
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$4,897.79

Where Pennsylvania 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.

Pennsylvania· 43rd of 51

$2,512

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.