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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

Virginia 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?

$1,950

Typical negotiated rate. In Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,950 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,862 from a physician practice, and about $5,248 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$1,862$1,622 to $2,344
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$5,248$1,950 to $8,913

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,248 · 10th to 90th $1,622 to $11,482Professionalmedian $1,862 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $4,169
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $5,248professional $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
$1,737.80
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$10,964.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$6,165.95
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$7,413.10
Typical High
$9,332.54
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,818.38
CareFirst
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,698.24
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$10,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,548.13
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,584.89
Typical High
$1,949.84
Medcost
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,630.78
Median
$3,630.78
Typical High
$3,630.78
Medcost
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,949.84
Typical High
$2,951.21
Sentara
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$10,000.00
Sentara
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$10,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$6,606.93
Median
$10,964.78
Typical High
$22,387.21
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,258.93
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,090.30

Where Virginia 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.

Virginia· 37th of 51

$1,950

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.