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Procedure price report · Nasogastric tube

Stomach tube to collect several timed fluid samples

CPT 43755the billing code this page is about

A tube is passed into the stomach and multiple samples of stomach fluid are collected over time, which may include giving a medication to stimulate acid output.

Hospitals typically charge $259 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 324 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $324. Most fall between $123 and $666 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
324
States
42
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 324 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
$98$153$259$490$774

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $774).

How the prices are spread

$62 – $91: 13 hospitals$62$91 – $133: 46 hospitals$133 – $194: 58 hospitals$133$194 – $284: 36 hospitals$284 – $415: 41 hospitals$284$415 – $607: 38 hospitals$607 – $888: 54 hospitals$607$888 – $1,300: 2 hospitals$1,300 – $1,901: 2 hospitals$1,300$1,901 – $2,781: 5 hospitals$1,901median $259price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (295 of 324 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$62$9113
$91$13346
$133$19458
$194$28436
$284$41541
$415$60738
$607$88854
$888$1,3002
$1,300$1,9012
$1,901$2,7815

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$131
Median cash price$259
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.97×

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 $259.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $336 across 13 hospitalsWA$336Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $125 across 12 hospitalsIL$125Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $185 across 27 hospitalsNY$185Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $434 across 10 hospitalsOR$434Nevada: 2 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 $422 across 13 hospitalsIA$422Indiana: median $300 across 13 hospitalsIN$300Ohio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $45 across 17 hospitalsPA$45New Jersey: median $3,786 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $666 across 62 hospitalsCA$666Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $69 across 10 hospitalsTN$69North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $98 across 13 hospitalsOK$98Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $121 across 22 hospitalsTX$121Florida: median $879 across 13 hospitalsFL$879
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $259. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+1362%$173 – $5,419
Florida FL13$879+239%$244 – $879
California CA62$666+157%$273 – $728
Oregon OR10$434+67%$362 – $434
Iowa IA13$422+63%$422 – $422
Washington WA13$336+30%$255 – $679
Indiana IN13$300+16%$263 – $425
New York NY27$185−29%$131 – $343
Illinois IL12$125−52%$104 – $231
Texas TX22$121−53%$121 – $194
Oklahoma OK13$98−62%$98 – $319
Tennessee TN10$69−73%$69 – $116
Pennsylvania PA17$45−83%$37 – $186
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $259.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care284$244$121 – $666
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access36$300$178 – $438
Ownership
For-profit23$178$125 – $438
Government41$234$157 – $471
Non-profit260$283$121 – $666
System affiliation
Part of a system278$284$125 – $666
Independent46$183$118 – $378

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$474
Median cash price$259
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

243 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $323 and the average of the middle 60% is $335; most fall between $121 and $666.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 243 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
$98$133$323$666$879

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $879).

Of the 266 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 243 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

324 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 343 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted324
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code343

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 23, 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 Intubation Dx & Aspiratj Multiple Spec.

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 several timed fluid samples (CPT 43755) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43755-stomach-tube-to-collect-several-timed-fluid-samples