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Voice Box Widening With Graft, Older Patients

Massachusetts 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?

$2,239

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,239 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,188 from a physician practice, and about $2,512 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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$2,188$1,738 to $3,802
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,512$1,738 to $4,266

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,512 · 10th to 90th $1,122 to $7,079Professionalmedian $2,188 · 10th to 90th $1,318 to $10,000
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,512professional $2,188

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

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,570.40
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$6,309.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,348.96
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$9,549.93
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$10,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$5,888.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,905.46
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$4,466.84
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,479.11
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$3,630.78
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,344.23
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$10,232.93
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$6,309.57
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$9,549.93
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,445.44
Median
$3,548.13
Typical High
$10,000.00
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$13,489.63
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$6,309.57
Well Sense
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$2,398.83
Well Sense
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$1,412.54
Typical High
$1,659.59
6 more rates with less common billing modifiers

A modifier changes what was billed, for example a reduced or repeated service. Each of these modifiers carries under 10% of the published rates for this code. Modifier combinations, and modifiers with fewer than 30 rates for a carrier, are not listed.

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$575.44
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$676.08
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$229.09
Median
$229.09
Typical High
$269.15
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$851.14
Typical High
$1,023.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$114.82
Typical High
$134.90
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$954.99

Where Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts· 20th of 51

$2,239

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.