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Voice Box Exam With Slow-Motion Vocal Cord Imaging

Alabama rates for HCPCS 31579

This procedure uses a scope, inserted through the mouth or nose, to examine the voice box while a special strobing light captures the vocal cords in slow motion as a person speaks or sings. It helps assess how well the vocal cords vibrate and close together. It's commonly used to evaluate hoarseness or other voice problems.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Voice Box Exam With Slow-Motion Vocal Cord Imaging cost?

$240

Typical negotiated rate. In Alabama, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $240 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $200 from a physician practice, and about $1,122 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$200$158 to $324
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,122$759 to $1,349

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,122 · 10th to 90th $417 to $1,738Professionalmedian $200 · 10th to 90th $123 to $363
$100$200$500$1K$2Kfacility $1,122professional $200

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
$645.65
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$2,398.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$128.82
Median
$199.53
Typical High
$398.11
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,047.13
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$1,698.24
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$363.08
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$234.42
Typical High
$398.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$239.88
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$1,348.96
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$295.12

Where Alabama sits

The same service costs 6.9 times more in Hawaii 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

$240

HI $1,148RI $166

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.