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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Nevada 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?

$2,089

Typical negotiated rate. In Nevada, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,089 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,698 from a physician practice, and about $3,981 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$1,698$1,622 to $2,291
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,981$2,951 to $5,754

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,981 · 10th to 90th $1,622 to $8,128Professionalmedian $1,698 · 10th to 90th $1,514 to $4,467
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $3,981professional $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
$1,621.81
Median
$3,981.07
Typical High
$7,762.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$8,511.38
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$8,128.31
Typical High
$8,128.31
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,884.03
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,454.71
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$16.60
Median
$1,548.82
Typical High
$2,290.87
Hometown Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,162.28
Median
$3,162.28
Typical High
$3,162.28
Hometown Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,041.74
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,348.96
Typical High
$1,348.96
Select Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,122.02
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,290.87
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$10,715.19
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$42.66
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,951.21

Where Nevada 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.

Nevada· 32nd of 51

$2,089

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.