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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

Minnesota 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?

$5,495

Typical negotiated rate. In Minnesota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,495 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $5,370 from a physician practice, and about $9,120 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$5,370$3,890 to $7,244
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$9,120$6,166 to $16,982

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $9,120 · 10th to 90th $2,884 to $21,878Professionalmedian $5,370 · 10th to 90th $2,754 to $8,318
$2K$5K$10K$20K$50Kfacility $9,120professional $5,370

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
$2,238.72
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$2,238.72
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,548.13
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$14,791.08
Typical High
$42,657.95
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$8,128.31
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,623.41
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$21,379.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,890.45
Median
$6,456.54
Typical High
$9,772.37
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$16,982.44
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$8,709.64
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$10,471.29
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$3,890.45
Typical High
$12,589.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,168.69
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$15,135.61
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$8,317.64

Where Minnesota 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.

Minnesota· 3rd of 51

$5,495

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.