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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Montana 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 Montana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,630 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,630 from a physician practice, and about $2,692 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$2,630$2,089 to $2,951
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,692$2,455 to $2,754

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $2,344 to $2,951Professionalmedian $2,630 · 10th to 90th $1,698 to $8,511
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,692professional $2,630

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
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$8,511.38
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$2,454.71
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$2,454.71
Typical High
$2,454.71
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,951.21
MountainHealth Co-op
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$2,691.53
Typical High
$2,951.21
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,570.40
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$3,467.37
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,778.28
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$12,022.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,715.35

Where Montana 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.

Montana· 16th 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.