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Procedure price report · Endoscopic retrograde cannulation of pancreas (ERCP)

Bile duct scope exam with removal of a foreign body or stent

CPT 43275the billing code this page is about

During a scope exam of the bile and pancreatic ducts, a foreign object or a previously placed stent is taken out of the duct.

Hospitals typically charge $2,805 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,052 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,139. Most fall between $1,110 and $5,741 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,052
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 1,052 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
$674$1,669$2,805$5,128$8,692

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($674 vs $8,692).

How the prices are spread

$470 – $647: 49 hospitals$470$647 – $893: 71 hospitals$893 – $1,231: 56 hospitals$893$1,231 – $1,697: 48 hospitals$1,697 – $2,339: 158 hospitals$1,697$2,339 – $3,225: 155 hospitals$3,225 – $4,447: 141 hospitals$3,225$4,447 – $6,132: 144 hospitals$6,132 – $8,454: 77 hospitals$6,132$8,454 – $11,656: 59 hospitals$8,454median $2,805price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (958 of 1,052 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$470$64749
$647$89371
$893$1,23156
$1,231$1,69748
$1,697$2,339158
$2,339$3,225155
$3,225$4,447141
$4,447$6,132144
$6,132$8,45477
$8,454$11,65659

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$2,805
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.43×

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 $2,805.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,222 across 17 hospitalsWA$4,222Idaho: median $4,686 across 12 hospitalsID$4,686Montana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,080 across 31 hospitalsMN$3,080Illinois: median $1,974 across 36 hospitalsIL$1,974Wisconsin: median $2,400 across 42 hospitalsWI$2,400Michigan: median $674 across 35 hospitalsMI$674New York: median $2,245 across 61 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $5,559 across 31 hospitalsMA$5,559Oregon: median $1,034 across 19 hospitalsOR$1,034Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $953 across 17 hospitalsIA$953Indiana: median $770 across 30 hospitalsIN$770Ohio: median $5,672 across 68 hospitalsOH$5,672Pennsylvania: median $3,207 across 48 hospitalsPA$3,207New Jersey: median $2,531 across 44 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: median $11,656 across 13 hospitalsCT$11,656Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,086 across 83 hospitalsCA$4,086Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,897 across 17 hospitalsCO$2,897Nebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,589 across 30 hospitalsMO$2,589Kentucky: median $2,185 across 14 hospitalsKY$2,185West Virginia: median $1,269 across 12 hospitalsWV$1,269Virginia: median $2,720 across 22 hospitalsVA$2,720Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $2,504 across 10 hospitalsNM$2,504Kansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $2,355 across 13 hospitalsAR$2,355Tennessee: median $2,859 across 21 hospitalsTN$2,859North Carolina: median $3,000 across 18 hospitalsNC$3,000South Carolina: median $4,297 across 24 hospitalsSC$4,297Oklahoma: median $784 across 17 hospitalsOK$784Louisiana: median $1,768 across 22 hospitalsLA$1,768Mississippi: median $2,862 across 13 hospitalsMS$2,862Alabama: median $2,759 across 16 hospitalsAL$2,759Georgia: median $1,854 across 31 hospitalsGA$1,854Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,144 across 69 hospitalsTX$2,144Florida: median $4,935 across 36 hospitalsFL$4,935
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,805. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Connecticut CT13$11,656+316%$3,680 – $12,516
Ohio OH68$5,672+102%$3,445 – $9,784
Massachusetts MA31$5,559+98%$3,458 – $8,652
Florida FL36$4,935+76%$3,806 – $6,324
Idaho ID12$4,686+67%$4,120 – $5,665
South Carolina SC24$4,297+53%$3,380 – $5,470
Washington WA17$4,222+51%$674 – $6,637
California CA83$4,086+46%$2,066 – $5,621
Pennsylvania PA48$3,207+14%$2,213 – $8,260
Minnesota MN31$3,080+10%$1,723 – $5,254
North Carolina NC18$3,000+7%$1,750 – $4,104
Colorado CO17$2,897+3%$1,631 – $4,317
Mississippi MS13$2,862+2%$1,689 – $2,862
Tennessee TN21$2,859+2%$451 – $3,530
Alabama AL16$2,759−2%$1,700 – $9,271
Virginia VA22$2,720−3%$1,564 – $3,927
Missouri MO30$2,589−8%$1,750 – $7,650
New Jersey NJ44$2,531−10%$2,100 – $5,855
New Mexico NM10$2,504−11%$1,810 – $4,110
Wisconsin WI42$2,400−14%$2,159 – $6,026
Arkansas AR13$2,355−16%$1,443 – $3,360
New York NY61$2,245−20%$1,026 – $4,595
Kentucky KY14$2,185−22%$516 – $7,617
Texas TX69$2,144−24%$1,259 – $2,805
Illinois IL36$1,974−30%$636 – $4,901
Georgia GA31$1,854−34%$1,854 – $5,289
Louisiana LA22$1,768−37%$964 – $2,930
West Virginia WV12$1,269−55%$1,057 – $5,335
Oregon OR19$1,034−63%$674 – $4,793
Iowa IA17$953−66%$953 – $5,142
Oklahoma OK17$784−72%$784 – $3,899
Indiana IN30$770−73%$516 – $5,911
Michigan MI35$674−76%$470 – $2,639
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,805.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care914$2,859$1,269 – $5,855
Children’s21$2,693$1,669 – $7,543
Critical access111$2,159$754 – $4,686
Ownership
For-profit122$2,859$1,429 – $7,533
Government140$2,644$999 – $5,142
Non-profit784$2,807$1,093 – $5,741
System affiliation
Part of a system889$2,862$1,390 – $5,890
Independent163$2,225$754 – $5,355

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,676
Median cash price$2,805
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

656 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,805 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,988; most fall between $960 and $5,254.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 656 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
$674$1,404$2,805$4,547$7,267

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($674 vs $7,267).

Of the 703 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 656 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,052 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,127 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,052
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here47
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code1,127

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 Endoscopic retrograde cannulation of pancreas (ERCP) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Ercp Remove Foreign Body/Stent Biliary/Panc Duct.

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, “Bile duct scope exam with removal of a foreign body or stent (CPT 43275) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43275-bile-duct-scope-exam-with-removal-of-a-foreign-body-or-stent