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New Tear Drainage Passage With A Tube

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 68750

Creates a new channel running from the surface of the eye through into the inside of the nose and sets a small tube into it, so tears can drain when the natural passage is blocked or missing. The tube stays in place to keep the new channel open.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does New Tear Drainage Passage With A Tube cost?

$4,724

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

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,724 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $1,905 to the doctor who performs it, and $2,818 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 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$1,905$1,660 to $2,399
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$2,818$1,778 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,818 · 10th to 90th $1,288 to $8,913Professionalmedian $1,905 · 10th to 90th $1,175 to $8,511
$1K$2K$5K$10K$20Kfacility $2,818professional $1,905

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
$5,011.87
Median
$7,943.28
Typical High
$19,952.62
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$794.33
Median
$794.33
Typical High
$1,513.56
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$5,248.07
Median
$6,918.31
Typical High
$14,125.38
BCBS Nebraska
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$2,290.87
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$3,019.95
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,398.83
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$2,137.96
Typical High
$8,912.51
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,202.26
Median
$8,511.38
Typical High
$8,511.38
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,819.70
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$1,949.84
Midlands
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,235.94
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$1,905.46
Typical High
$2,398.83
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,238.72
Typical High
$6,606.93
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,174.90
Median
$1,778.28
Typical High
$2,238.72

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 3.2 times more in Wisconsin than in Kansas. 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

Nebraska· 12th of 51

$4,724

$1,905 physician + $2,818 facility

WI $8,153KS $2,509

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.