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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

North Dakota 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 July 2026.

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

$288

Typical facility fee. In North Dakota, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $288 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $178 to $309.

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 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $288 · 10th to 90th $178 to $2,512
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $288

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
$177.83
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$2,511.89
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$851.14
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,398.83
Median
$3,019.95
Typical High
$3,388.44

Where North Dakota sits

The same service costs 23.4 times more in Indiana 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.

North Dakota· 50th of 50

$288

IN $6,761ND $288

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.