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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

Kansas rates for HCPCS 31635

Passes a lighted scope, rigid or flexible, through the mouth or nose into the windpipe and airways to find and pull out an object that has been inhaled - a piece of food, a tooth fragment, a small toy, or similar. It is done under sedation or general anesthesia.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object cost?

$2,191

Typical total for the visit. In Kansas, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,191 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $372 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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$372$282 to $525
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$955 to $1,905

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $513 to $3,802Professionalmedian $372 · 10th to 90th $224 to $2,399
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,820professional $372

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
$1,023.29
Median
$3,467.37
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$478.63
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,905.46
BCBS Kansas
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$371.54
Typical High
$524.81
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,174.90
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$575.44
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$338.84
Median
$912.01
Typical High
$16,218.10
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$354.81
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$4,786.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$501.19
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$3,311.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$489.78
5 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
$87.10
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$234.42
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$34.67
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$95.50
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$131.83
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$354.81
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$26.30
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$70.79
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$17.38
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$47.86

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 7.0 times more in Vermont than in North Dakota. 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

Kansas· 16th of 51

$2,191

$372 physician + $1,820 facility

VT $4,790ND $687

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.