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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Georgia 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?

$2,291

Typical negotiated rate. In Georgia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,291 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,905 from a physician practice, and about $5,129 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 5 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$1,905$1,660 to $2,344
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,129$2,884 to $7,079

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,129 · 10th to 90th $1,698 to $10,233Professionalmedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $3,548
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,129professional $1,905

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
$2,884.03
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$10,232.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$4,365.16
Typical High
$10,000.00
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,630.27
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,801.89
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$12,022.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,388.44

Where Georgia 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.

Georgia· 23rd of 51

$2,291

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.