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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Tennessee 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?

$2,138

Typical negotiated rate. In Tennessee, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,138 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,862 from a physician practice, and about $4,074 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$1,862$1,585 to $2,291
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,074$2,570 to $6,607

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $1,820 to $9,120Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $2,951
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,074professional $1,862

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
$1,318.26
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$6,456.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,570.40
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,454.71
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$9,772.37
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,467.37
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,801.89
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$3,801.89
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,884.03
Lucent Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$16,982.44
Typical High
$16,982.44
Lucent Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11,220.18
Median
$12,882.50
Typical High
$12,882.50
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,467.37
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$10,471.29
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$3,388.44

Where Tennessee 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.

Tennessee· 30th of 51

$2,138

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.