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Procedure price report · Tracheoscopy and laryngoscopy with biopsy

Voice box exam with stroboscopy

CPT 31579the billing code this page is about

A flexible or rigid scope combined with a strobe light is used to view vocal cord vibration during speech.

Hospitals typically charge $663 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,029 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $698. Most fall between $368 and $1,204 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,029
States
50
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 1,029 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
$264$412$663$1,138$1,675

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($264 vs $1,675).

How the prices are spread

$197 – $249: 45 hospitals$197$249 – $315: 63 hospitals$315 – $399: 89 hospitals$315$399 – $505: 163 hospitals$505 – $639: 83 hospitals$505$639 – $809: 129 hospitals$809 – $1,025: 124 hospitals$809$1,025 – $1,297: 102 hospitals$1,297 – $1,642: 78 hospitals$1,297$1,642 – $2,079: 58 hospitals$1,642median $663price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (934 of 1,029 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$197$24945
$249$31563
$315$39989
$399$505163
$505$63983
$639$809129
$809$1,025124
$1,025$1,297102
$1,297$1,64278
$1,642$2,07958

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$400
Median cash price$663
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.66×

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 $663.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,155 across 22 hospitalsWA$1,155Idaho: median $663 across 11 hospitalsID$663Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $596 across 24 hospitalsMN$596Illinois: median $640 across 43 hospitalsIL$640Wisconsin: median $948 across 49 hospitalsWI$948Michigan: median $654 across 57 hospitalsMI$654New York: median $460 across 45 hospitalsNY$460Massachusetts: median $1,628 across 11 hospitalsMA$1,628Oregon: median $379 across 24 hospitalsOR$379Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $470 across 19 hospitalsIA$470Indiana: median $528 across 34 hospitalsIN$528Ohio: median $1,161 across 84 hospitalsOH$1,161Pennsylvania: median $462 across 41 hospitalsPA$462New Jersey: median $1,354 across 30 hospitalsNJ$1,354Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $987 across 61 hospitalsCA$987Utah: median $663 across 24 hospitalsUT$663Colorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $575 across 22 hospitalsMO$575Kentucky: median $1,010 across 23 hospitalsKY$1,010West Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $723 across 22 hospitalsVA$723Maryland: median $717 across 12 hospitalsMD$717Delaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $526 across 22 hospitalsAZ$526New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $475 across 20 hospitalsNC$475South Carolina: median $365 across 10 hospitalsSC$365Oklahoma: median $197 across 14 hospitalsOK$197Louisiana: median $384 across 20 hospitalsLA$384Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,087 across 39 hospitalsGA$1,087Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $671 across 75 hospitalsTX$671Florida: median $1,060 across 45 hospitalsFL$1,060
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $663. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA11$1,628+145%$509 – $1,877
New Jersey NJ30$1,354+104%$430 – $5,110
Ohio OH84$1,161+75%$538 – $1,297
Washington WA22$1,155+74%$864 – $1,333
Georgia GA39$1,087+64%$481 – $1,844
Florida FL45$1,060+60%$280 – $1,732
Kentucky KY23$1,010+52%$315 – $1,322
California CA61$987+49%$648 – $1,585
Wisconsin WI49$948+43%$640 – $1,394
Virginia VA22$723+9%$528 – $832
Maryland MD12$717+8%$580 – $942
Texas TX75$671+1%$412 – $877
Idaho ID11$6630%$458 – $1,087
Utah UT24$6630%$663 – $829
Michigan MI57$654−1%$212 – $948
Illinois IL43$640−4%$295 – $1,434
Minnesota MN24$596−10%$264 – $667
Missouri MO22$575−13%$403 – $1,195
Indiana IN34$528−20%$310 – $1,192
Arizona AZ22$526−21%$370 – $2,347
North Carolina NC20$475−28%$353 – $506
Iowa IA19$470−29%$335 – $470
Pennsylvania PA41$462−30%$91 – $678
New York NY45$460−31%$345 – $1,065
Louisiana LA20$384−42%$235 – $662
Oregon OR24$379−43%$358 – $1,190
South Carolina SC10$365−45%$358 – $837
Oklahoma OK14$197−70%$197 – $356
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not 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 $663.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care847$654$368 – $1,241
Children’s36$747$434 – $1,988
Critical access143$663$312 – $974
Ownership
For-profit81$663$358 – $1,197
Government138$488$358 – $1,065
Non-profit807$673$370 – $1,241
System affiliation
Part of a system901$673$376 – $1,241
Independent128$515$310 – $1,065

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,142
Median cash price$663
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

762 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $685 and the average of the middle 60% is $744; most fall between $377 and $1,217.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 762 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
$266$431$685$1,161$1,585

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($266 vs $1,585).

Of the 805 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 762 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 27 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,029 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,097 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,029
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code1,097

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 Laryngoscopy Flx/Rgd Telescopic W/Stroboscopy.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Voice box exam with stroboscopy (CPT 31579) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31579-voice-box-exam-with-stroboscopy