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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Michigan 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?

$1,950

Typical negotiated rate. In Michigan, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,950 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,862 from a physician practice, and about $5,754 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 6 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$1,862$1,514 to $2,042
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,754$4,898 to $5,754

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,754 · 10th to 90th $2,042 to $8,128Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,349 to $2,138
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $5,754professional $1,862

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
$1,949.84
Median
$5,754.40
Typical High
$6,918.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,041.74
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$426.58
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$4,786.30
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,949.84
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$6,918.31
Health Alliance Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,187.76
Priority Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,786.30
Median
$4,786.30
Typical High
$4,786.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$14,791.08
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,630.27

Where Michigan 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.

Michigan· 38th of 51

$1,950

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.