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Cutting The Inner Ear Balance Nerve

Mississippi rates for HCPCS 69950

An operation that reaches the inner ear through an opening made in the skull and cuts the nerve carrying balance signals from one ear to the brain. Silencing the faulty signals stops severe attacks of spinning dizziness while the hearing nerve alongside it is preserved. It is reserved for disabling vertigo that has not responded to medication or other treatment.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Cutting The Inner Ear Balance Nerve cost?

$1,905

Typical negotiated rate. In Mississippi, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,905 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $2,512 from a physician practice, and about $1,622 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

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 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$2,512$1,660 to $3,548
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,622$955 to $1,995

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,622 · 10th to 90th $759 to $3,311Professionalmedian $2,512 · 10th to 90th $1,622 to $3,548
$50$200$1K$5Kfacility $1,622professional $2,512

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
$758.58
Median
$1,659.59
Typical High
$1,995.26
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,659.59
Median
$2,511.89
Typical High
$3,548.13
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$3,090.30
Median
$3,090.30
Typical High
$3,090.30
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,000.00
Typical High
$1,000.00
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,288.25
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,467.37
Molina
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$32.36
Median
$32.36
Typical High
$33.11
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,584.89
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$3,890.45

Where Mississippi sits

The same service costs 5.4 times more in California than in West Virginia. 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.

Mississippi· 43rd of 51

$1,905

CA $9,333WV $1,738

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.