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Repeat Stretching of the Voice Box Airway

Kansas 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?

$3,702

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,702 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $234 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,467 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$234$200 to $263
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,467$1,380 to $4,571

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,467 · 10th to 90th $724 to $5,012Professionalmedian $234 · 10th to 90th $162 to $1,660
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,467professional $234

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
$162.18
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$263.03
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$4,570.88
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$251.19
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
$158.49
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$338.84
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$16,218.10
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$208.93
Typical High
$1,659.59
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
$165.96
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$302.00
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
$81.28
Median
$104.71
Typical High
$131.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$52.48
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$158.49
Typical High
$194.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$31.62
Typical High
$38.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$21.38
Typical High
$26.30

Where Kansas 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

Kansas· 10th of 51

$3,702

$234 physician + $3,467 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.