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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Louisiana 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?

$2,630

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,630 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,188 from a physician practice, and about $3,311 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 4 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$2,188$1,660 to $2,630
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,311$1,862 to $6,026

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,311 · 10th to 90th $1,047 to $9,120Professionalmedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $2,692
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,311professional $2,188

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
$933.25
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$6,606.93
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$2,691.53
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,570.88
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$11,481.54
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,398.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,691.53
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$6,165.95
Typical High
$11,748.98
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$3,090.30

Where Louisiana 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.

Louisiana· 17th of 51

$2,630

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.