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Flexible Voice Box Scope With Growth Removal

Alabama rates for HCPCS 31578

Passes a slim flexible scope through the nose to view the voice box and removes a non-cancerous growth from the vocal cords or nearby tissue using instruments passed alongside the scope. Growths such as polyps, nodules, or cysts make the voice hoarse, breathy, or weak. It is generally done with the throat numbed rather than under general anesthesia.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Flexible Voice Box Scope With Growth Removal cost?

$331

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $331 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $275 from a physician practice, and about $2,239 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$275$200 to $398
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,239$1,122 to $3,090

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,239 · 10th to 90th $776 to $3,890Professionalmedian $275 · 10th to 90th $155 to $490
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,239professional $275

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
$758.58
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$154.88
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$489.78
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,691.53
Median
$3,235.94
Typical High
$4,265.80
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$165.96
Median
$257.04
Typical High
$389.05
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$524.81
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$3,388.44
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$407.38

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 12.3 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.

Alabama· 28th of 51

$331

CA $2,754RI $224

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.