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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

New Jersey 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?

$2,225

Typical total for the visit. In New Jersey, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,225 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $275 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,950 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$275$166 to $355
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,950$1,148 to $4,365

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,950 · 10th to 90th $447 to $6,761Professionalmedian $275 · 10th to 90th $148 to $562
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $1,950professional $275

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
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,772.37
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$302.00
Typical High
$363.08
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,513.56
Typical High
$2,238.72
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$223.87
Typical High
$562.34
Emblem Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$346.74
Median
$524.81
Typical High
$524.81
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$6,760.83
Horizon BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$162.18
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$776.25
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$5,623.41
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$123.03
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$562.34
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
$141.25
Typical High
$169.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$56.23
Typical High
$69.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$120.23
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$257.04
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$23.99
Median
$42.66
Typical High
$51.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$16.22
Median
$28.18
Typical High
$33.88

Where New Jersey 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

New Jersey· 14th of 51

$2,225

$275 physician + $1,950 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.