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Procedure price report · Other OR upper GI therapeutic procedures

Surgery joining the stomach to the middle small intestine

CPT 43820the billing code this page is about

Open operation creating a connection between the stomach and the jejunum, without cutting the vagus nerve.

Hospitals typically charge $2,657 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 319 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,787. Most fall between $1,661 and $5,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
319
States
46
Filings dated
Jan 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 319 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
$1,350$1,893$2,657$4,064$6,088

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,350 vs $6,088).

How the prices are spread

$738 – $941: 10 hospitals$738$941 – $1,199: 2 hospitals$1,199 – $1,528: 25 hospitals$1,199$1,528 – $1,948: 33 hospitals$1,948 – $2,482: 53 hospitals$1,948$2,482 – $3,164: 56 hospitals$3,164 – $4,032: 44 hospitals$3,164$4,032 – $5,139: 18 hospitals$5,139 – $6,549: 38 hospitals$5,139$6,549 – $8,347: 13 hospitals$6,549median $2,657price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (292 of 319 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$738$94110
$941$1,1992
$1,199$1,52825
$1,528$1,94833
$1,948$2,48253
$2,482$3,16456
$3,164$4,03244
$4,032$5,13918
$5,139$6,54938
$6,549$8,34713

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,657.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,580 across 10 hospitalsWA$2,580Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,661 across 18 hospitalsIL$1,661Wisconsin: median $6,088 across 27 hospitalsWI$6,088Michigan: median $2,572 across 29 hospitalsMI$2,572New York: median $2,115 across 19 hospitalsNY$2,115Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,916 across 13 hospitalsOR$2,916Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $3,295 across 21 hospitalsIA$3,295Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,302 across 12 hospitalsOH$3,302Pennsylvania: median $3,324 across 10 hospitalsPA$3,324New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,480 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,480Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,823 across 11 hospitalsOK$2,823Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,657. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI27$6,088+129%$6,088 – $8,347
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+92%$4,350 – $5,855
Pennsylvania PA10$3,324+25%$2,128 – $4,234
Ohio OH12$3,302+24%$2,074 – $5,858
Iowa IA21$3,295+24%$2,120 – $3,295
Oregon OR13$2,916+10%$2,467 – $3,668
Oklahoma OK11$2,823+6%$2,823 – $2,823
Washington WA10$2,580−3%$2,368 – $3,140
Michigan MI29$2,572−3%$1,893 – $2,572
New York NY19$2,115−20%$1,185 – $4,015
Illinois IL18$1,661−37%$1,432 – $4,299
West Virginia WV11$1,480−44%$1,465 – $3,420
California CA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $2,657.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care216$2,670$1,661 – $4,376
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access94$2,609$1,661 – $6,088
Ownership
For-profit22$2,276$1,661 – $6,088
Government51$2,657$1,713 – $3,726
Non-profit245$2,675$1,661 – $5,467
System affiliation
Part of a system231$2,815$1,661 – $5,741
Independent88$2,589$1,637 – $4,334

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,796
Median cash price$2,657
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

206 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,589 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,658; most fall between $1,626 and $4,173.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 206 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
$1,173$1,661$2,589$3,705$6,088

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,173 vs $6,088).

Of the 245 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 206 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

319 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 389 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted319
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code389

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Other OR upper GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Gastrojejunostomy W/O Vagotomy.

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, “Surgery joining the stomach to the middle small intestine (CPT 43820) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43820-surgery-joining-the-stomach-to-the-middle-small-intestine