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Early Change Of A Breathing Tube In The Neck

Kansas 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?

$2,801

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,801 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $46.77 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,754 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$46.77$34.67 to $69.18
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,754$1,148 to $5,623

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $58 to $7,943Professionalmedian $47 · 10th to 90th $34 to $69
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $2,754professional $47

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
$1,348.96
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$8,128.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$57.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$69.18
Median
$69.18
Typical High
$69.18
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$46.77
Typical High
$75.86
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$41.69
Median
$67.61
Typical High
$1,288.25
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$44.67
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$57.54
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$1,659.59
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$43.65
Typical High
$58.88

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 13th of 49

$2,801

$46.77 physician + $2,754 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.