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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

New Jersey 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?

$2,239

Typical negotiated rate. In New Jersey, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,239 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,698 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 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$1,698$1,445 to $2,570
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$8,511$6,026 to $10,965

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $8,511 · 10th to 90th $3,631 to $13,490Professionalmedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $1,259 to $6,166
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $8,511professional $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
$3,467.37
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$12,302.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$11,481.54
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$4,073.80
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,570.40
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12,022.64
Median
$19,054.61
Typical High
$30,199.52
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$8,709.64
Typical High
$19,498.45
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$3,162.28

Where New Jersey 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.

New Jersey· 28th of 51

$2,239

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.