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Repeat Stretching of the Voice Box Airway

Delaware rates for HCPCS 31529

A scope is passed into the voice box, and the windpipe below it when needed, and a narrowed section of the airway is stretched open with a balloon or dilator. It is used when scarring or swelling has tightened the airway, causing noisy or difficult breathing or a weak voice. This is a repeat stretching, carried out after an earlier one.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Repeat Stretching of the Voice Box Airway cost?

$1,586

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,586 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $174 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,413 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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$174$155 to $224
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,413$1,000 to $2,570

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,413 · 10th to 90th $646 to $2,951Professionalmedian $174 · 10th to 90th $148 to $288
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,413professional $174

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$154.88
Typical High
$346.74
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,311.31
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$194.98
Typical High
$281.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,570.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$288.40

Where Delaware sits

The same service costs 13.0 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

Delaware· 46th of 51

$1,586

$174 physician + $1,413 facility

CO $6,260MT $480

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.