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Procedure price report · Tracheoscopy and laryngoscopy with biopsy

Voice box exam with a flexible scope

CPT 31575the billing code this page is about

A diagnostic look at the larynx and vocal cords using a thin flexible scope passed through the nose or mouth; no tissue is removed.

Hospitals typically charge $298 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,211 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $329. Most fall between $161 and $606 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,211
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,211 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
$116$184$298$530$884

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($116 vs $884).

How the prices are spread

$80 – $106: 86 hospitals$80$106 – $142: 160 hospitals$142 – $190: 233 hospitals$142$190 – $255: 334 hospitals$255 – $341: 309 hospitals$255$341 – $456: 278 hospitals$456 – $610: 261 hospitals$456$610 – $816: 173 hospitals$816 – $1,092: 109 hospitals$816$1,092 – $1,460: 48 hospitals$1,092median $298price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,991 of 2,211 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$80$10686
$106$142160
$142$190233
$190$255334
$255$341309
$341$456278
$456$610261
$610$816173
$816$1,092109
$1,092$1,46048

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$204
Median cash price$298
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.46×

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 $298.

Alaska: median $544 across 12 hospitalsAK$544Maine: median $185 across 17 hospitalsME$185Vermont: median $286 across 10 hospitalsVT$286New Hampshire: median $153 across 16 hospitalsNH$153Washington: median $351 across 63 hospitalsWA$351Idaho: median $259 across 16 hospitalsID$259Montana: median $126 across 13 hospitalsMT$126North Dakota: median $239 across 10 hospitalsND$239Minnesota: median $357 across 74 hospitalsMN$357Illinois: median $267 across 85 hospitalsIL$267Wisconsin: median $272 across 82 hospitalsWI$272Michigan: median $298 across 70 hospitalsMI$298New York: median $295 across 93 hospitalsNY$295Massachusetts: median $405 across 46 hospitalsMA$405Oregon: median $233 across 46 hospitalsOR$233Nevada: median $317 across 11 hospitalsNV$317Wyoming: median $245 across 11 hospitalsWY$245South Dakota: median $436 across 15 hospitalsSD$436Iowa: median $195 across 54 hospitalsIA$195Indiana: median $338 across 54 hospitalsIN$338Ohio: median $385 across 106 hospitalsOH$385Pennsylvania: median $388 across 111 hospitalsPA$388New Jersey: median $264 across 55 hospitalsNJ$264Connecticut: median $383 across 17 hospitalsCT$383Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $530 across 144 hospitalsCA$530Utah: median $664 across 28 hospitalsUT$664Colorado: median $273 across 50 hospitalsCO$273Nebraska: median $246 across 54 hospitalsNE$246Missouri: median $291 across 55 hospitalsMO$291Kentucky: median $285 across 31 hospitalsKY$285West Virginia: median $241 across 26 hospitalsWV$241Virginia: median $218 across 51 hospitalsVA$218Maryland: median $511 across 12 hospitalsMD$511Delaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $215 across 33 hospitalsAZ$215New Mexico: median $202 across 17 hospitalsNM$202Kansas: median $226 across 28 hospitalsKS$226Arkansas: median $203 across 16 hospitalsAR$203Tennessee: median $140 across 47 hospitalsTN$140North Carolina: median $198 across 60 hospitalsNC$198South Carolina: median $359 across 43 hospitalsSC$359Oklahoma: median $171 across 37 hospitalsOK$171Louisiana: median $175 across 33 hospitalsLA$175Mississippi: median $154 across 36 hospitalsMS$154Alabama: median $291 across 22 hospitalsAL$291Georgia: median $648 across 67 hospitalsGA$648Hawaii: median $371 across 15 hospitalsHI$371Texas: median $239 across 129 hospitalsTX$239Florida: median $322 across 76 hospitalsFL$322
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $298. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT28$664+123%$634 – $830
Georgia GA67$648+118%$299 – $819
Alaska AK12$544+83%$250 – $1,298
California CA144$530+78%$242 – $984
Maryland MD12$511+72%$427 – $675
South Dakota SD15$436+46%$195 – $446
Massachusetts MA46$405+36%$287 – $686
Pennsylvania PA111$388+30%$185 – $1,410
Ohio OH106$385+29%$240 – $539
Connecticut CT17$383+29%$192 – $692
Hawaii HI15$371+24%$145 – $464
South Carolina SC43$359+21%$181 – $818
Minnesota MN74$357+20%$150 – $511
Washington WA63$351+18%$214 – $602
Indiana IN54$338+13%$213 – $627
Florida FL76$322+8%$175 – $777
Nevada NV11$317+6%$188 – $834
Michigan MI70$2980%$99 – $525
New York NY93$295−1%$192 – $651
Alabama AL22$291−2%$161 – $321
Missouri MO55$291−2%$149 – $541
Vermont VT10$286−4%$159 – $511
Kentucky KY31$285−4%$184 – $406
Colorado CO50$273−8%$172 – $614
Wisconsin WI82$272−9%$200 – $370
Illinois IL85$267−10%$170 – $583
New Jersey NJ55$264−11%$215 – $4,627
Idaho ID16$259−13%$179 – $543
Nebraska NE54$246−17%$146 – $332
Wyoming WY11$245−18%$173 – $443
West Virginia WV26$241−19%$129 – $337
Texas TX129$239−20%$163 – $485
North Dakota ND10$239−20%$156 – $365
Oregon OR46$233−22%$157 – $362
Kansas KS28$226−24%$134 – $763
Virginia VA51$218−27%$125 – $314
Arizona AZ33$215−28%$143 – $1,483
Arkansas AR16$203−32%$110 – $413
New Mexico NM17$202−32%$130 – $246
North Carolina NC60$198−33%$167 – $389
Iowa IA54$195−34%$118 – $409
Maine ME17$185−38%$136 – $273
Louisiana LA33$175−41%$132 – $301
Oklahoma OK37$171−43%$76 – $478
Mississippi MS36$154−48%$84 – $294
New Hampshire NH16$153−49%$59 – $232
Tennessee TN47$140−53%$51 – $299
Montana MT13$126−58%$85 – $270
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not 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 $298.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,691$313$168 – $636
Children’s60$514$291 – $911
Critical access454$250$128 – $434
Ownership
For-profit188$341$179 – $820
Government377$248$145 – $524
Non-profit1,640$302$162 – $606
System affiliation
Part of a system1,831$298$162 – $620
Independent380$272$157 – $576

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$509
Median cash price$298
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

1,677 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $314 and the average of the middle 60% is $349; most fall between $163 and $627.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,677 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
$123$189$314$545$886

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($123 vs $886).

Of the 1,792 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,677 gave a usable cash price; 37 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,211 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (56%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,373 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,211
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here75
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded82
Hospitals that filed this code2,373

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 Tracheoscopy and laryngoscopy with biopsy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Laryngoscopy,Flex Fiber,Diagnostic.

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, “Voice box exam with a flexible scope (CPT 31575) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31575-voice-box-exam-with-a-flexible-scope