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Flexible voice box scope with medication injection

CPT 31573the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed to the voice box and medication is injected into the vocal cord or nearby muscle as treatment, such as a nerve-blocking drug.

Hospitals typically charge $1,885 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 464 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,020. Most fall between $674 and $4,022 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
464
States
46
Filings dated
Nov 2024 – 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 464 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
$380$789$1,885$3,683$5,136

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($380 vs $5,136).

How the prices are spread

$261 – $367: 23 hospitals$261$367 – $516: 27 hospitals$516 – $726: 30 hospitals$516$726 – $1,021: 43 hospitals$1,021 – $1,435: 24 hospitals$1,021$1,435 – $2,018: 71 hospitals$2,018 – $2,838: 68 hospitals$2,018$2,838 – $3,990: 61 hospitals$3,990 – $5,611: 57 hospitals$3,990$5,611 – $7,890: 14 hospitals$5,611median $1,885price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (418 of 464 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$261$36723
$367$51627
$516$72630
$726$1,02143
$1,021$1,43524
$1,435$2,01871
$2,018$2,83868
$2,838$3,99061
$3,990$5,61157
$5,611$7,89014

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,818
Median cash price$1,885
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

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 $1,885.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,698 across 30 hospitalsIL$1,698Wisconsin: median $995 across 28 hospitalsWI$995Michigan: median $995 across 16 hospitalsMI$995New York: median $2,041 across 22 hospitalsNY$2,041Massachusetts: median $5,354 across 13 hospitalsMA$5,354Oregon: 1 hospital 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $674 across 13 hospitalsIA$674Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,152 across 24 hospitalsOH$3,152Pennsylvania: median $2,103 across 26 hospitalsPA$2,103New Jersey: median $4,278 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,278Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,898 across 43 hospitalsCA$2,898Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $1,790 across 16 hospitalsSC$1,790Oklahoma: median $380 across 17 hospitalsOK$380Louisiana: median $977 across 13 hospitalsLA$977Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $789 across 16 hospitalsGA$789Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,286 across 34 hospitalsTX$2,286Florida: median $3,389 across 14 hospitalsFL$3,389
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,885. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA13$5,354+184%$1,247 – $7,123
New Jersey NJ30$4,278+127%$1,910 – $6,311
Florida FL14$3,389+80%$3,389 – $9,047
Ohio OH24$3,152+67%$669 – $4,118
California CA43$2,898+54%$1,758 – $4,855
Texas TX34$2,286+21%$1,664 – $3,683
Pennsylvania PA26$2,103+12%$108 – $3,249
New York NY22$2,041+8%$460 – $2,113
South Carolina SC16$1,790−5%$1,790 – $1,790
Illinois IL30$1,698−10%$348 – $4,408
Michigan MI16$995−47%$466 – $2,447
Wisconsin WI28$995−47%$457 – $1,129
Louisiana LA13$977−48%$783 – $1,286
Georgia GA16$789−58%$789 – $2,575
Iowa IA13$674−64%$674 – $674
Oklahoma OK17$380−80%$380 – $1,709
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,885.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care416$2,024$702 – $4,008
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access36$995$457 – $4,408
Ownership
For-profit37$1,286$380 – $3,683
Government55$2,041$789 – $3,389
Non-profit371$1,878$674 – $4,307
System affiliation
Part of a system408$1,910$674 – $4,175
Independent56$1,422$390 – $2,796

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,822
Median cash price$1,885
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

334 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,758 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,889; most fall between $466 and $3,683.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 334 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
$348$674$1,758$3,268$4,855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($348 vs $4,855).

Of the 354 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 334 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

464 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 491 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted464
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code491

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 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

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

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Laryngoscopy Flexible Therapeutic Injection Uni.

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, “Flexible voice box scope with medication injection (CPT 31573) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31573-flexible-voice-box-scope-with-medication-injection