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Voice Box Exam With Stretching Of A Narrowing

Mississippi 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?

$1,659

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,659 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $214 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,445 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$214$148 to $331
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,445$891 to $2,239

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,445 · 10th to 90th $708 to $4,786Professionalmedian $214 · 10th to 90th $135 to $372
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,445professional $214

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
$371.54
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,819.70
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$371.54
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$144.54
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,621.81
BCBS Mississippi
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$331.13
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$630.96
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$3,235.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$338.84
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$33.11
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$380.19
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
$74.13
Median
$181.97
Typical High
$181.97
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$30.20
Median
$74.13
Typical High
$74.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$275.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$22.39
Median
$54.95
Typical High
$54.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$14.79
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$37.15

Where Mississippi 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

Mississippi· 45th of 51

$1,659

$214 physician + $1,445 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.