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New Tear Drainage Passage Into The Nose

Utah 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?

$5,565

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $5,565 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $437 to the doctor who performs it, and $5,129 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$437$110 to $562
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$5,129$2,089 to $7,943

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $5,129 · 10th to 90th $776 to $9,120Professionalmedian $437 · 10th to 90th $59 to $759
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $5,129professional $437

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
$776.25
Median
$4,570.88
Typical High
$9,120.11
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$776.25
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$831.76
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,995.26
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$2,089.30
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$588.84
Median
$891.25
Typical High
$1,348.96
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$416.87
Typical High
$616.60
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$6,025.60
Median
$7,762.47
Typical High
$11,220.18
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,071.52
Typical High
$1,174.90
Select Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,230.27
Median
$1,230.27
Typical High
$1,230.27
U of Utah Health Plan
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,148.15
Typical High
$2,089.30
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$4,168.69
Typical High
$8,317.64
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$645.65
Median
$776.25
Typical High
$1,348.96
1 more rate 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
Regence BlueShield
Setting
Facility
Modifier
50 · Both sides
Typical Low
$9,120.11
Median
$11,748.98
Typical High
$16,982.44

Where Utah 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

Utah· 8th of 51

$5,565

$437 physician + $5,129 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.