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New Tear Drainage Passage Into The Nose

Rhode Island rates for HCPCS 68720

Creates a new channel from the tear sac at the inner corner of the eye directly into the nose, bypassing a blocked tear duct. A small opening is made in the bone between the sac and the nasal cavity and the linings are joined so tears drain again. It is done for a duct that is blocked below the sac and cannot be opened by probing.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does New Tear Drainage Passage Into The Nose cost?

$3,709

Typical total for the visit. In Rhode Island, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $3,709 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $955 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,754 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$955$776 to $1,230
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,754$1,622 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,754 · 10th to 90th $832 to $7,762Professionalmedian $955 · 10th to 90th $692 to $1,479
$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $2,754professional $955

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
$3,019.95
Median
$3,715.35
Typical High
$3,981.07
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$758.58
Median
$870.96
Typical High
$870.96
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$645.65
Typical High
$645.65
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$112.20
Median
$128.82
Typical High
$128.82
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$75.86
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$87.10
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$954.99
Typical High
$1,318.26
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
54 · Surgery only
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$676.08
Typical High
$812.83
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
55 · Aftercare only
Typical Low
$134.90
Median
$190.55
Typical High
$234.42
BCBS Rhode Island
Setting
Professional
Modifier
56 · Pre-op care only
Typical Low
$67.61
Median
$95.50
Typical High
$117.49
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$831.76
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$3,235.94
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$1,479.11
Typical High
$1,479.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$812.83
Median
$2,630.27
Typical High
$8,709.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$676.08
Median
$741.31
Typical High
$1,174.90
3 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
$380.19
Median
$436.52
Typical High
$436.52
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
53 · Discontinued
Typical Low
$151.36
Median
$173.78
Typical High
$173.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
78 · Unplanned return to OR
Typical Low
$524.81
Median
$602.56
Typical High
$602.56

Where Rhode Island sits

The same service costs 3.6 times more in Vermont 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

Rhode Island· 23rd of 51

$3,709

$955 physician + $2,754 facility

VT $8,561MT $2,405

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.