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Voice Box Exam With Stretching Of A Narrowing

Kansas rates for HCPCS 31528

A scope is passed through the mouth into the voice box so the surgeon can look at it directly and widen a narrowed part of the airway, stretching it with a dilator or a balloon. It relieves noisy or difficult breathing and a weak voice caused by scarring or narrowing. This covers the first such stretching; repeat sessions are billed separately.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Voice Box Exam With Stretching Of A Narrowing cost?

$3,840

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,840 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $209 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,631 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$209$174 to $234
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,631$1,380 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,631 · 10th to 90th $724 to $5,012Professionalmedian $209 · 10th to 90th $145 to $1,820
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,631professional $209

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$234.42
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$3,981.07
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$229.09
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,290.87
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$316.23
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$16,218.10
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$1,995.26
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$269.15
5 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$72.44
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$117.49
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$38.02
Typical High
$46.77
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$177.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$35.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$19.05
Typical High
$23.44

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 14.3 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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· 8th of 51

$3,840

$209 physician + $3,631 facility

CO $6,102MT $428

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.