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Repeat Stretching of the Voice Box Airway

Florida 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?

$1,968

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,968 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $148 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$148$120 to $191
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$1,047 to $3,631

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $759 to $11,749Professionalmedian $148 · 10th to 90th $112 to $282
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $1,820professional $148

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
$549.54
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$194.98
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$9,549.93
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$181.97
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,019.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$309.03
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$16,982.44
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$100.00
Median
$107.15
Typical High
$186.21
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$281.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$7,585.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$338.84
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$112.20
Typical High
$141.25
6 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
$67.61
Median
$72.44
Typical High
$95.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$26.92
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$38.02
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$109.65
Typical High
$141.25
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$20.42
Median
$21.88
Typical High
$28.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$13.49
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$19.05
Ambetter
Setting
Professional
Modifier
51 · Multiple procedures
Typical Low
$93.33
Median
$125.89
Typical High
$125.89

Where Florida 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

Florida· 35th of 51

$1,968

$148 physician + $1,820 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.