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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

Oklahoma 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?

$3,344

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,344 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $324 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,020 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$324$234 to $427
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,020$759 to $4,677

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,020 · 10th to 90th $380 to $6,457Professionalmedian $324 · 10th to 90th $200 to $2,399
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,020professional $324

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
$831.76
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$8,317.64
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$194.98
Median
$323.59
Typical High
$389.05
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,754.23
Median
$4,466.84
Typical High
$7,079.46
BCBS Oklahoma
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$380.19
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$933.25
Typical High
$1,122.02
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$199.53
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$398.11
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$4,073.80
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$302.00
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$4,786.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$4,168.69
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$177.83
Median
$269.15
Typical High
$446.68
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
$97.72
Median
$100.00
Typical High
$165.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$38.90
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$66.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$245.47
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$29.51
Typical High
$48.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$19.95
Typical High
$33.11

Where Oklahoma 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

Oklahoma· 6th of 51

$3,344

$324 physician + $3,020 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.