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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

Nebraska 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?

$1,774

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,774 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $295 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,479 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$295$229 to $417
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,479$955 to $3,802

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,479 · 10th to 90th $794 to $7,244Professionalmedian $295 · 10th to 90th $155 to $708
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,479professional $295

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
$275.42
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$11,481.54
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$275.42
Typical High
$1,445.44
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$6,309.57
Typical High
$12,589.25
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$141.25
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,513.56
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$707.95
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$4,466.84
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$380.19
Median
$660.69
Typical High
$4,786.30
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$389.05
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$812.83
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$1,548.82
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$331.13
Median
$562.34
Typical High
$645.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,445.44
Typical High
$3,162.28
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$741.31
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
$81.28
Median
$81.28
Typical High
$138.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$54.95
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$123.03
Typical High
$204.17
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$24.55
Median
$24.55
Typical High
$41.69
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$16.22
Typical High
$27.54

Where Nebraska 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

Nebraska· 24th of 51

$1,774

$295 physician + $1,479 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.