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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

Minnesota 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?

$1,401

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,401 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $550 to the doctor who performs it, and $851 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$550$339 to $741
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$851$407 to $1,905

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $851 · 10th to 90th $182 to $3,162Professionalmedian $550 · 10th to 90th $269 to $1,000
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $851professional $550

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
$181.97
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$1,905.46
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$181.97
Median
$295.12
Typical High
$363.08
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$954.99
Median
$2,818.38
Typical High
$6,456.54
BCBS Minnesota
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$891.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$489.78
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,445.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$371.54
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,230.27
Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$691.83
Typical High
$1,202.26
Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$323.59
Median
$588.84
Typical High
$1,148.15
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$3,467.37
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$4,466.84
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$234.42
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,000.00
10 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
Facility
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$64.57
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$239.88
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$47.86
Typical High
$47.86
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$32.36
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
52 · Reduced service
Typical Low
$91.20
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$37.15
Median
$57.54
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$138.04
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$27.54
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$47.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$18.20
Median
$28.84
Typical High
$32.36

Where Minnesota 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

Minnesota· 34th of 51

$1,401

$550 physician + $851 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.