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Early Change Of A Breathing Tube In The Neck

Oklahoma 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?

$975

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $975 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $41.69 to the doctor who performs it, and $933 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$41.69$34.67 to $45.71
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$933$646 to $1,380

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $933 · 10th to 90th $468 to $3,890Professionalmedian $42 · 10th to 90th $34 to $55
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $933professional $42

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
$501.19
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$2,570.40
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$549.54
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,071.52
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$33.88
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$46.77
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$48.98
Typical High
$229.09
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$40.74
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$2,511.89
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$31.62
Median
$41.69
Typical High
$575.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$1,548.82
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$29.51
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$56.23

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 31st of 49

$975

$41.69 physician + $933 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.