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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

Washington 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?

$661

Typical facility fee. In Washington, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $661 for this service. Most negotiated rates run $417 to $4,365.

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 8 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $661 · 10th to 90th $295 to $8,511
$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $661

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
$323.59
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$13,803.84
Asuris Northwest Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$5,248.07
Typical High
$9,332.54
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,122.02
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$1,862.09
Kaiser Permanente
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$269.15
Median
$489.78
Typical High
$2,187.76
Pacific Source
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$588.84
Premera BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$398.11
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$398.11
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,311.31
Median
$5,128.61
Typical High
$9,120.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,621.81
Median
$5,495.41
Typical High
$10,232.93

Where Washington 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.

Washington· 42nd of 50

$661

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.