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Surgery to Move Widely Spaced Eye Sockets Closer

North Carolina 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?

$2,570

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, 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 $3,090 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$2,512$2,138 to $4,074
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,090$2,291 to $7,244

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,090 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $10,000Professionalmedian $2,512 · 10th to 90th $1,738 to $6,026
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,090professional $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
$1,659.59
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$5,888.44
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$5,495.41
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$6,165.95
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$3,548.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,897.79
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,162.28
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$5,248.07
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,137.96
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$4,168.69
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,466.84
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$19,498.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$4,466.84
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$16,982.44
Typical High
$16,982.44
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$25,703.96
Median
$25,703.96
Typical High
$25,703.96

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 29th of 51

$2,570

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.