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Airway Scope To Remove An Inhaled Object

Wyoming 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?

$2,277

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $2,277 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $457 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,820 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 4 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$457$372 to $550
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,820$1,445 to $1,820

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,820 · 10th to 90th $1,072 to $2,089Professionalmedian $457 · 10th to 90th $302 to $776
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,820professional $457

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$302.00
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$173.78
Median
$245.47
Typical High
$302.00
BCBS Wyoming
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,819.70
Typical High
$1,819.70
BCBS Wyoming
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$776.25
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$2,884.03
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$257.04
Median
$467.74
Typical High
$645.65
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$5,370.32
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$288.40
Median
$501.19
Typical High
$1,023.29

Where Wyoming 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

Wyoming· 13th of 51

$2,277

$457 physician + $1,820 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.