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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Oregon 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?

$3,020

Typical negotiated rate. In Oregon, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,020 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $3,020 from a physician practice, and about $3,020 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 8 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$3,020$2,344 to $3,981
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$3,020$2,754 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $2,089 to $15,849Professionalmedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $1,738 to $4,898
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $3,020professional $3,020

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
$3,890.45
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$19,952.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$8,511.38
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$4,265.80
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,073.80
Moda Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$3,890.45
Moda Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$4,168.69
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,041.74
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,090.30
Providence
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$4,073.80
Providence
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$79.43
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$4,265.80
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$14,125.38
Median
$19,054.61
Typical High
$23,442.29
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,951.21
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$4,570.88
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5,011.87
Median
$17,378.01
Typical High
$22,908.68
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$4,265.80

Where Oregon 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.

Oregon· 12th of 51

$3,020

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.