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Flexible Voice Box Exam With Foreign Object Removal

Indiana rates for HCPCS 31577

This uses a thin, flexible, camera-tipped scope passed through the nose or mouth to examine the voice box and remove a foreign object lodged there. It allows the provider to directly visualize the airway and retrieve the object without open surgery. It's typically done urgently when someone is having trouble breathing, swallowing, or speaking due to something stuck in that area.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Flexible Voice Box Exam With Foreign Object Removal cost?

$275

Typical negotiated rate. In Indiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $275 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $229 from a physician practice, and about $4,074 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$229$155 to $275
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$4,074$2,818 to $5,495

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $724 to $8,318Professionalmedian $229 · 10th to 90th $132 to $347
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,074professional $229

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
$190.55
Median
$4,897.79
Typical High
$7,244.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$338.84
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,344.23
Median
$4,073.80
Typical High
$8,317.64
Anthem BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$346.74
CareSource
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$134.90
Typical High
$151.36
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$489.78
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$263.03
Typical High
$537.03
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$5,754.40
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$416.87

Where Indiana sits

The same service costs 11.5 times more in California than in Rhode Island. 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.

Indiana· 43rd of 51

$275

CA $2,239RI $195

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.