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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Florida rates for HCPCS 31551

Rebuilds a voice box that has narrowed, so air can pass freely again. The surgeon opens the framework of the voice box, widens it, and holds the larger shape with a piece of the patient's own cartilage set into the gap while everything heals.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft cost?

$1,820

Typical negotiated rate. In Florida, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,820 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,479 from a physician practice, and about $7,079 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,479$1,259 to $1,820
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,079$3,090 to $11,482

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,079 · 10th to 90th $1,230 to $14,791Professionalmedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $2,344
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $7,079professional $1,479

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$12,302.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,290.87
AvMed
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$12,302.69
AvMed
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$3,467.37
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,090.30
Florida Blue
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,165.95
Median
$12,302.69
Typical High
$23,442.29
Florida Blue
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$1,548.82
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$1,949.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$10,000.00
Typical High
$15,848.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,162.28
Wellpoint
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,584.89

Where Florida sits

The same service costs 5.2 times more in California than in Delaware. 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.

Florida· 44th of 51

$1,820

CA $7,943DE $1,514

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.