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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Missouri 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?

$1,995

Typical negotiated rate. In Missouri, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,995 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,698 from a physician practice, and about $2,884 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$1,698$1,514 to $2,344
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,884$1,549 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,884 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $5,754Professionalmedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $3,890
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,884professional $1,698

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
$1,698.24
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$8,511.38
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$4,265.80
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$3,981.07
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,884.03
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,137.96
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,090.30
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$11,220.18
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$11,481.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$7,943.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,019.95

Where Missouri 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.

Missouri· 36th of 51

$1,995

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.