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Voice Box Widening With Graft, Older Patients

Kansas 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 July 2026.

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

$2,239

Typical negotiated rate. In Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,239 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,042 from a physician practice, and about $4,898 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$2,042$1,479 to $2,138
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,898$3,162 to $8,128

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,898 · 10th to 90th $1,950 to $10,471Professionalmedian $2,042 · 10th to 90th $1,445 to $2,512
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,898professional $2,042

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
$1,949.84
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$2,511.89
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,089.30
Median
$2,089.30
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,090.30
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,548.82
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$8,511.38
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$10,964.78
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,238.72
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$9,332.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,511.89

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 5.5 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.

Kansas· 26th of 51

$2,239

CA $7,943DE $1,445

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.