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Airway Repair During Lung Removal Surgery

Iowa rates for HCPCS 32501

Removal and repair of a segment of an airway during an operation to take out part of a lung. Rebuilding the airway lets the surgeon clear disease that reaches into it while keeping more healthy lung tissue. It is billed in addition to the main operation.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Airway Repair During Lung Removal Surgery cost?

$1,621

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,621 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $525 to the doctor who performs it, and $1,096 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$525$398 to $603
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$1,096$562 to $3,020

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $457 to $6,607Professionalmedian $525 · 10th to 90th $275 to $759
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,096professional $525

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
$338.84
Median
$5,888.44
Typical High
$7,943.28
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$213.80
Median
$338.84
Typical High
$338.84
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$512.86
Median
$575.44
Typical High
$758.58
Hally Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$398.11
Typical High
$758.58
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$4,897.79
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$309.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$2,187.76
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$537.03
Median
$549.54
Typical High
$660.69
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$478.63
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$741.31
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$2,344.23
Typical High
$6,918.31
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$758.58
Wellmark
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$436.52
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$524.81

Where Iowa sits

The same service costs 19.7 times more in Colorado than in Montana. 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

Iowa· 21st of 51

$1,621

$525 physician + $1,096 facility

CO $14,809MT $752

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.