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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Nebraska 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?

$3,388

Typical negotiated rate. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,388 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,754 from a physician practice, and about $8,511 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$2,754$1,514 to $3,467
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8,511$7,943 to $13,183

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,511 · 10th to 90th $4,677 to $15,136Professionalmedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $8,511
$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $8,511professional $2,754

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
$7,079.46
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$15,135.61
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$2,754.23
Typical High
$8,511.38
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$7,943.28
Median
$10,471.29
Typical High
$20,417.38
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$3,388.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,884.03
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$4,466.84
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$16,595.87
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,265.80
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$4,786.30
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,388.44
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,981.07

Where Nebraska 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.

Nebraska· 9th of 51

$3,388

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.