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Voice Restoration Passage After Larynx Removal

Oklahoma rates for HCPCS 31611

This surgery creates a small connecting passage between the windpipe and the esophagus in a patient who has had their voice box removed, to allow placement of a voice prosthesis. The device lets air redirect through the throat to produce speech sounds again. It's an important step in restoring the ability to speak after this kind of surgery.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Voice Restoration Passage After Larynx Removal cost?

$5,069

Typical total for the visit. In Oklahoma, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,069 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $603 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,467 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

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.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$603$550 to $692
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,467$1,622 to $6,607

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,467 · 10th to 90th $1,000 to $9,333Professionalmedian $603 · 10th to 90th $479 to $1,000
$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $4,467professional $603

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
$1,000.00
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$6,760.83
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$3,890.45
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,981.07
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$10,232.93
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$707.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$831.76
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$602.56
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$6,456.54
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$630.96
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$2,951.21
Typical High
$6,456.54
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$831.76

Where Oklahoma sits

The same service costs 8.5 times more in South Carolina than in West Virginia. 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.

Physician feeFacility fee

Oklahoma· 19th of 50

$5,069

$603 physician + $4,467 facility

SC $9,355WV $1,102

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.