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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Iowa rates for HCPCS 21263

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?

$3,548

Typical negotiated rate. In Iowa, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,548 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,311 from a physician practice, and about $6,761 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 7 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$3,311$2,239 to $4,898
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$6,761$4,266 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,761 · 10th to 90th $3,548 to $13,490Professionalmedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $7,079
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $6,761professional $3,311

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
$3,548.13
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$13,803.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$6,456.54
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$5,888.44
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$14,791.08
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$24,547.09
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$6,606.93
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$6,165.95
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,413.10
Median
$10,715.19
Typical High
$15,488.17
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$6,025.60
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$5,011.87

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 3.5 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.

Iowa· 11th of 51

$3,548

CA $7,413KY $2,089

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.