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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

South 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 October 2026.

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

$1,216

Typical total for the visit. In South Dakota, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,216 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $759 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 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$457$347 to $646
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$759$427 to $955

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $759 · 10th to 90th $245 to $1,202Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $251 to $794
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $759professional $457

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
$177.83
Median
$288.40
Typical High
$4,365.16
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$144.54
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$478.63
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$1,047.13
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$870.96
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$245.47
Median
$426.58
Typical High
$1,202.26
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$4,786.30
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$416.87
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$645.65
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,148.15
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$363.08
Median
$363.08
Typical High
$588.84
Sanford Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$275.42
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$562.34
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,698.24
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$208.93
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$794.33
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$316.23
Median
$389.05
Typical High
$794.33
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
$72.44
Median
$91.20
Typical High
$162.18
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$28.84
Median
$37.15
Typical High
$64.57
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$109.65
Median
$138.04
Typical High
$239.88
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$21.88
Median
$27.54
Typical High
$47.86
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$14.45
Median
$18.20
Typical High
$32.36

Where South Dakota 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

South Dakota· 43rd of 51

$1,216

$457 physician + $759 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.