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Early Change Of A Breathing Tube In The Neck

Alabama rates for HCPCS 31502

Replaces the breathing tube in a surgically created opening in the neck during the first days after it was placed, before the passage has healed into a stable channel. It is done carefully and with airway equipment on hand, because at this stage the opening can close down or the tube can be pushed into a false passage. Routine tube changes once the passage is well formed are a simpler service.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Early Change Of A Breathing Tube In The Neck cost?

$543

Typical total for the visit. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $543 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $53.70 to the doctor who performs it, and $490 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$53.70$36.31 to $57.54
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$490$195 to $1,023

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $490 · 10th to 90th $166 to $1,585Professionalmedian $54 · 10th to 90th $32 to $78
$50$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $490professional $54

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
$562.34
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$77.62
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.05
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$33.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$245.47
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$48.98
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$83.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$338.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$1,548.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$58.88

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 76.1 times more in New Jersey than in West Virginia. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Alabama· 38th of 49

$543

$53.70 physician + $490 facility

NJ $5,534WV $72.69

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.