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Procedure price report · Nasogastric tube

Stomach tube to collect a single fluid sample

CPT 43754the billing code this page is about

A tube is passed into the stomach and stomach fluid is drawn off once for laboratory testing.

Hospitals typically charge $369 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 530 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $365. Most fall between $133 and $647 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
530
States
46
Filings dated
Dec 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 530 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
$75$172$369$588$834

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $834).

How the prices are spread

$60 – $81: 33 hospitals$60$81 – $110: 19 hospitals$110 – $149: 43 hospitals$110$149 – $202: 31 hospitals$202 – $274: 45 hospitals$202$274 – $371: 77 hospitals$371 – $502: 90 hospitals$371$502 – $681: 90 hospitals$681 – $923: 42 hospitals$681$923 – $1,250: 11 hospitals$923median $369price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (481 of 530 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$60$8133
$81$11019
$110$14943
$149$20231
$202$27445
$274$37177
$371$50290
$502$68190
$681$92342
$923$1,25011

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$221
Median cash price$369
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.67×

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 $369.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: median $426 across 25 hospitalsWA$426Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $477 across 13 hospitalsMN$477Illinois: median $140 across 15 hospitalsIL$140Wisconsin: median $642 across 12 hospitalsWI$642Michigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $369 across 31 hospitalsNY$369Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $769 across 20 hospitalsOR$769Nevada: 4 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 $442 across 13 hospitalsIA$442Indiana: median $96 across 18 hospitalsIN$96Ohio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $224 across 23 hospitalsPA$224New Jersey: median $3,786 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $588 across 84 hospitalsCA$588Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $243 across 14 hospitalsCO$243Nebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $377 across 11 hospitalsWV$377Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $62 across 14 hospitalsOK$62Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $310 across 48 hospitalsTX$310Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $369. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+927%$345 – $5,419
Oregon OR20$769+109%$419 – $834
Wisconsin WI12$642+74%$334 – $758
California CA84$588+59%$332 – $661
Minnesota MN13$477+29%$226 – $477
Iowa IA13$442+20%$442 – $442
Washington WA25$426+15%$176 – $562
West Virginia WV11$377+2%$83 – $412
New York NY31$3690%$115 – $592
Texas TX48$310−16%$204 – $586
Colorado CO14$243−34%$150 – $500
Pennsylvania PA23$224−39%$25 – $862
Illinois IL15$140−62%$115 – $442
Indiana IN18$96−74%$72 – $133
Oklahoma OK14$62−83%$62 – $484
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $369.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care418$367$138 – $655
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access102$381$123 – $642
Ownership
For-profit49$276$133 – $623
Government77$313$125 – $516
Non-profit403$377$140 – $661
System affiliation
Part of a system450$377$143 – $661
Independent80$250$92 – $480

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$644
Median cash price$369
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

362 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $384 and the average of the middle 60% is $410; most fall between $147 and $661.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 362 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$188$384$609$826

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($103 vs $826).

Of the 392 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 362 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 22 a list price only.

How complete is this

530 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 577 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted530
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code577

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 Gastric Intubat Dx W/Aspiration Single Specimen.

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, “Stomach tube to collect a single fluid sample (CPT 43754) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43754-stomach-tube-to-collect-a-single-fluid-sample