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Laryngoscopy with voice box cartilage removal, microscope

CPT 31561the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed into the throat to remove an arytenoid cartilage of the voice box, using an operating microscope or telescope for magnification.

Hospitals typically charge $2,700 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 279 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,957. Most fall between $571 and $8,574 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
279
States
43
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 279 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$378$651$2,700$8,152$10,181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($378 vs $10,181).

How the prices are spread

$332 – $491: 24 hospitals$332$491 – $727: 45 hospitals$727 – $1,077: 36 hospitals$727$1,077 – $1,595: 15 hospitals$1,595 – $2,361: 7 hospitals$1,595$2,361 – $3,496: 6 hospitals$3,496 – $5,177: 35 hospitals$3,496$5,177 – $7,666: 23 hospitals$7,666 – $11,351: 50 hospitals$7,666$11,351 – $16,807: 13 hospitals$11,351median $2,700price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (254 of 279 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$332$49124
$491$72745
$727$1,07736
$1,077$1,59515
$1,595$2,3617
$2,361$3,4966
$3,496$5,17735
$5,177$7,66623
$7,666$11,35150
$11,351$16,80713

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,210
Median cash price$2,700
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.37×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,700.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $806 across 13 hospitalsIL$806Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $410 across 23 hospitalsMI$410New York: median $8,192 across 23 hospitalsNY$8,192Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $847 across 14 hospitalsIA$847Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $599 across 19 hospitalsPA$599New Jersey: median $6,311 across 23 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $8,574 across 27 hospitalsCA$8,574Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $561 across 13 hospitalsOK$561Louisiana: median $4,324 across 10 hospitalsLA$4,324Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $5,024 across 17 hospitalsTX$5,024Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,700. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA27$8,574+218%$8,574 – $11,379
New York NY23$8,192+203%$975 – $8,377
New Jersey NJ23$6,311+134%$4,627 – $7,669
Texas TX17$5,024+86%$5,024 – $5,107
Louisiana LA10$4,324+60%$2,345 – $6,117
Iowa IA14$847−69%$847 – $847
Illinois IL13$806−70%$571 – $1,403
Pennsylvania PA19$599−78%$209 – $11,703
Oklahoma OK13$561−79%$561 – $3,564
Michigan MI23$410−85%$332 – $9,704
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $2,700.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care241$3,986$601 – $8,574
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access23$806$445 – $5,107
Ownership
For-profit25$1,536$656 – $10,181
Government38$2,099$622 – $8,192
Non-profit215$3,361$561 – $8,574
System affiliation
Part of a system236$3,819$564 – $8,574
Independent43$1,239$631 – $7,053

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,823
Median cash price$2,700
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

163 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $847 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,934; most fall between $561 and $8,574.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 163 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$378$561$847$5,107$8,574

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($378 vs $8,574).

Of the 176 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 163 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

279 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 304 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted279
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code304

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Largsc Arytenoidectomy Microscope/Telescope.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Laryngoscopy with voice box cartilage removal, microscope (CPT 31561) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31561-laryngoscopy-with-voice-box-cartilage-removal-microscope