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Voice Box Widening With Graft, Older Patients

Delaware rates for HCPCS 31552

Surgery to widen a narrowed voice box or upper windpipe by opening the cartilage framework and setting a piece of the patient's own cartilage into the gap to hold it wider. No tube is left inside the airway to keep it open while it heals. This version is performed in older children and adults.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Voice Box Widening With Graft, Older Patients cost?

$1,820

Typical negotiated rate. In Delaware, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,820 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,622 from a physician practice, and about $2,455 from a hospital or other facility.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,622$1,445 to $1,995
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,455$1,698 to $3,981

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,455 · 10th to 90th $1,288 to $5,754Professionalmedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $1,318 to $2,630
$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,455professional $1,622

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$6,606.93
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$3,311.31
Typical High
$5,888.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,318.26
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$2,630.27
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,737.80
Typical High
$2,454.71

Where Delaware sits

The same service costs 7.1 times more in Alaska than in Texas. 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.

Delaware· 34th of 51

$1,820

AK $6,026TX $851

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.