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Voice Box Widening With Cartilage Graft

West 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?

$1,549

Typical negotiated rate. In West Virginia, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,549 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,622 from a physician practice, and about $1,479 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 4 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$1,622$1,479 to $1,862
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,479$1,479 to $1,950

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $1,413 to $2,630Professionalmedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $1,479 to $2,138
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,479professional $1,622

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
$1,412.54
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$2,630.27
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,862.09
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$1,949.84
CareSource
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,737.80
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$1,737.80
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$2,398.83
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,513.56
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,548.13
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$16,595.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,630.27

Where West 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.

West Virginia· 50th of 51

$1,549

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.