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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Oklahoma 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?

$4,677

Typical negotiated rate. In Oklahoma, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,677 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,738 from a physician practice, and about $7,762 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$1,738$1,585 to $1,995
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$7,762$2,089 to $13,490

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $7,762 · 10th to 90th $1,514 to $18,621Professionalmedian $1,738 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $2,512
$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $7,762professional $1,738

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
$1,288.25
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$8,128.31
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$4,897.79
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8,912.51
Median
$13,489.63
Typical High
$22,908.68
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,995.26
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,454.71
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$10,232.93
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$11,481.54
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$5,370.32
Typical High
$10,964.78
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,511.89

Where Oklahoma 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.

Oklahoma· 4th of 51

$4,677

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.