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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

New Mexico 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 Mexico, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,239 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,138 from a physician practice, and about $2,455 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$2,138$1,549 to $2,512
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,455$2,138 to $8,710

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $1,660 to $12,023Professionalmedian $2,138 · 10th to 90th $1,549 to $8,511
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $2,455professional $2,138

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
$2,089.30
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$8,709.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$8,511.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,754.23
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$33.11
Typical High
$2,187.76
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$2,818.38
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$2,884.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$25,703.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$3,235.94

Where New Mexico 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 Mexico· 29th 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.