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Procedure price report · Nasogastric tube

Feeding tube placed through the nose with X-ray guidance

CPT 43752the billing code this page is about

Placement of a tube through the nose or mouth into the stomach by a physician using live X-ray imaging to guide and confirm its position.

Hospitals typically charge $420 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,548 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $425. Most fall between $160 and $781 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,548
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 2,548 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
$89$212$420$678$1,182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($89 vs $1,182).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $92: 143 hospitals$67$92 – $127: 116 hospitals$127 – $175: 153 hospitals$127$175 – $242: 224 hospitals$242 – $333: 274 hospitals$242$333 – $460: 382 hospitals$460 – $635: 441 hospitals$460$635 – $876: 250 hospitals$876 – $1,209: 220 hospitals$876$1,209 – $1,668: 100 hospitals$1,209median $420price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,303 of 2,548 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$92143
$92$127116
$127$175153
$175$242224
$242$333274
$333$460382
$460$635441
$635$876250
$876$1,209220
$1,209$1,668100

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$456
Median cash price$420
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $420.

Alaska: median $338 across 16 hospitalsAK$338Maine: median $165 across 18 hospitalsME$165Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $114 across 13 hospitalsNH$114Washington: median $427 across 70 hospitalsWA$427Idaho: median $324 across 20 hospitalsID$324Montana: median $113 across 21 hospitalsMT$113North Dakota: median $623 across 15 hospitalsND$623Minnesota: median $436 across 83 hospitalsMN$436Illinois: median $431 across 93 hospitalsIL$431Wisconsin: median $295 across 96 hospitalsWI$295Michigan: median $312 across 75 hospitalsMI$312New York: median $472 across 89 hospitalsNY$472Massachusetts: median $547 across 40 hospitalsMA$547Oregon: median $149 across 48 hospitalsOR$149Nevada: median $231 across 17 hospitalsNV$231Wyoming: median $251 across 11 hospitalsWY$251South Dakota: median $604 across 17 hospitalsSD$604Iowa: median $208 across 57 hospitalsIA$208Indiana: median $340 across 75 hospitalsIN$340Ohio: median $574 across 119 hospitalsOH$574Pennsylvania: median $510 across 122 hospitalsPA$510New Jersey: median $1,099 across 52 hospitalsNJ$1,099Connecticut: median $360 across 21 hospitalsCT$360Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $628 across 173 hospitalsCA$628Utah: median $756 across 29 hospitalsUT$756Colorado: median $450 across 54 hospitalsCO$450Nebraska: median $271 across 44 hospitalsNE$271Missouri: median $349 across 65 hospitalsMO$349Kentucky: median $294 across 38 hospitalsKY$294West Virginia: median $537 across 31 hospitalsWV$537Virginia: median $454 across 41 hospitalsVA$454Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $321 across 44 hospitalsAZ$321New Mexico: median $401 across 23 hospitalsNM$401Kansas: median $220 across 54 hospitalsKS$220Arkansas: median $371 across 20 hospitalsAR$371Tennessee: median $226 across 50 hospitalsTN$226North Carolina: median $196 across 65 hospitalsNC$196South Carolina: median $349 across 39 hospitalsSC$349Oklahoma: median $265 across 48 hospitalsOK$265Louisiana: median $175 across 46 hospitalsLA$175Mississippi: median $212 across 44 hospitalsMS$212Alabama: median $519 across 36 hospitalsAL$519Georgia: median $555 across 85 hospitalsGA$555Hawaii: median $502 across 17 hospitalsHI$502Texas: median $424 across 182 hospitalsTX$424Florida: median $553 across 103 hospitalsFL$553
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $420. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ52$1,099+162%$442 – $4,350
Utah UT29$756+80%$549 – $889
California CA173$628+49%$317 – $1,182
North Dakota ND15$623+48%$71 – $690
South Dakota SD17$604+44%$311 – $882
Ohio OH119$574+37%$363 – $1,193
Georgia GA85$555+32%$285 – $1,103
Florida FL103$553+32%$289 – $1,177
Massachusetts MA40$547+30%$296 – $846
West Virginia WV31$537+28%$159 – $660
Alabama AL36$519+24%$167 – $1,415
Pennsylvania PA122$510+21%$229 – $816
Hawaii HI17$502+20%$187 – $1,142
New York NY89$472+12%$113 – $801
Virginia VA41$454+8%$300 – $496
Colorado CO54$450+7%$237 – $730
Minnesota MN83$436+4%$195 – $601
Illinois IL93$431+3%$163 – $862
Washington WA70$427+2%$151 – $644
Texas TX182$424+1%$288 – $873
New Mexico NM23$401−5%$69 – $630
Arkansas AR20$371−12%$147 – $554
Connecticut CT21$360−14%$110 – $727
South Carolina SC39$349−17%$268 – $720
Missouri MO65$349−17%$149 – $457
Indiana IN75$340−19%$150 – $982
Alaska AK16$338−20%$243 – $691
Idaho ID20$324−23%$89 – $1,025
Arizona AZ44$321−24%$170 – $4,775
Michigan MI75$312−26%$80 – $722
Wisconsin WI96$295−30%$227 – $485
Kentucky KY38$294−30%$121 – $982
Nebraska NE44$271−35%$103 – $468
Oklahoma OK48$265−37%$121 – $517
Wyoming WY11$251−40%$103 – $322
Nevada NV17$231−45%$138 – $452
Tennessee TN50$226−46%$148 – $349
Kansas KS54$220−48%$107 – $505
Mississippi MS44$212−49%$78 – $526
Iowa IA57$208−50%$122 – $388
North Carolina NC65$196−53%$93 – $501
Louisiana LA46$175−58%$105 – $439
Maine ME18$165−61%$69 – $440
Oregon OR48$149−64%$91 – $624
New Hampshire NH13$114−73%$51 – $265
Montana MT21$113−73%$62 – $346
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not 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 $420.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,897$455$217 – $886
Children’s51$529$265 – $1,036
Critical access591$245$91 – $574
Ownership
For-profit267$456$189 – $1,162
Government441$300$109 – $632
Non-profit1,831$439$190 – $805
System affiliation
Part of a system2,095$439$193 – $830
Independent453$311$105 – $659

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$726
Median cash price$420
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

1,944 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $436 and the average of the middle 60% is $452; most fall between $204 and $839.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,944 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
$103$232$436$716$1,182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($103 vs $1,182).

Of the 2,088 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,944 gave a usable cash price; 51 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 92 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,548 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,736 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,548
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here87
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded98
Hospitals that filed this code2,736

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 Nasogastric tube family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Naso/Oro-Gastric Tube Plmt Req Phys&Fluor Gdnce.

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, “Feeding tube placed through the nose with X-ray guidance (CPT 43752) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43752-feeding-tube-placed-through-the-nose-with-x-ray-guidance