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Early Change Of A Breathing Tube In The Neck

New Jersey 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?

$5,534

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,534 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $38.90 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,495 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$38.90$33.88 to $67.61
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,495$3,548 to $7,079

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,495 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $10,715Professionalmedian $39 · 10th to 90th $30 to $2,291
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $5,495professional $39

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
$2,290.87
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$4,677.35
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$30.90
Median
$52.48
Typical High
$165.96
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$57.54
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$831.76
Typical High
$1,230.27
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$38.90
Typical High
$93.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$6,760.83
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$22.91
Median
$35.48
Typical High
$75.86

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 1st of 49

$5,534

$38.90 physician + $5,495 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.