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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

North Carolina 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?

$2,042

Typical negotiated rate. In North Carolina, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,042 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,950 from a physician practice, and about $3,802 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$1,950$1,549 to $2,818
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,802$1,660 to $10,000

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $1,514 to $12,589Professionalmedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $1,514 to $3,802
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $3,802professional $1,950

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
$1,513.56
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$3,090.30
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,862.09
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$4,073.80
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$3,801.89
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,570.40
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$3,890.45
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$23,988.33
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,548.13
Wellcare
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$16,982.44
Typical High
$16,982.44
Wellcare
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,220.18
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$12,882.50

Where North Carolina 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.

North Carolina· 33rd of 51

$2,042

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.