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Repair Of A Narrowed Airway To The Lung

Nationwide rates for HCPCS 31770

Surgery to rebuild a bronchus — one of the large airway branches leading into a lung — where it has become narrowed or damaged, so air can once again reach the lung tissue beyond. The chest is opened to work on the airway directly. It is done for scarring, injury, or a growth that has blocked the branch, and it can save a lung that would otherwise have to be removed.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Repair Of A Narrowed Airway To The Lung cost?

$8,578

Typical total for the visit. Nationwide, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $8,578 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,660 to the doctor who performs it, and $6,918 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 65 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,660$1,349 to $2,512
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$6,918$2,818 to $12,589

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $6,918 · 10th to 90th $1,514 to $19,055Professionalmedian $1,660 · 10th to 90th $1,202 to $3,802
$100.0$1.0K$10.0K$100.0Kfacility $6,918professional $1,660

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
$1,288.25
Median
$4,265.80
Typical High
$11,748.98
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$3,311.31
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,073.80
Median
$11,481.54
Typical High
$22,387.21
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$3,388.44
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,348.96
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$12,022.64
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$1,995.26
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$870.96
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$9,772.37
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,698.24
Typical High
$3,235.94

What it costs in each state

The same service costs 11.3 times more in Maine than in Maryland. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Pick one to see its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee
ME $24,165MD $2,140

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.