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Procedure price report · Other OR upper GI therapeutic procedures

Surgical closure of a stomach feeding opening

CPT 43870the billing code this page is about

Operation to close the opening in the stomach and abdominal wall left after a feeding tube site is no longer needed.

Hospitals typically charge $2,935 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 582 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,953. Most fall between $1,243 and $5,077 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
582
States
48
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 582 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
$862$1,458$2,935$4,654$8,831

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($862 vs $8,831).

How the prices are spread

$721 – $948: 38 hospitals$721$948 – $1,247: 50 hospitals$1,247 – $1,640: 61 hospitals$1,247$1,640 – $2,157: 81 hospitals$2,157 – $2,837: 30 hospitals$2,157$2,837 – $3,731: 72 hospitals$3,731 – $4,906: 85 hospitals$3,731$4,906 – $6,453: 43 hospitals$6,453 – $8,486: 15 hospitals$6,453$8,486 – $11,161: 50 hospitals$8,486median $2,935price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (525 of 582 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$721$94838
$948$1,24750
$1,247$1,64061
$1,640$2,15781
$2,157$2,83730
$2,837$3,73172
$3,731$4,90685
$4,906$6,45343
$6,453$8,48615
$8,486$11,16150

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,939
Median cash price$2,935
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $2,935.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $2,834 across 10 hospitalsID$2,834Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,935 across 23 hospitalsMN$2,935Illinois: median $1,797 across 24 hospitalsIL$1,797Wisconsin: median $3,673 across 23 hospitalsWI$3,673Michigan: median $1,642 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,642New York: median $2,157 across 36 hospitalsNY$2,157Massachusetts: median $11,330 across 10 hospitalsMA$11,330Oregon: median $1,950 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,950Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,746 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,746Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,710 across 29 hospitalsOH$3,710Pennsylvania: median $1,880 across 25 hospitalsPA$1,880New Jersey: median $4,988 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,988Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,008 across 44 hospitalsCA$5,008Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,374 across 10 hospitalsMO$1,374Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $973 across 14 hospitalsWV$973Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,326 across 12 hospitalsKS$1,326Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $8,672 across 16 hospitalsSC$8,672Oklahoma: median $1,493 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,493Louisiana: median $2,237 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,237Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,402 across 10 hospitalsGA$4,402Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,664 across 37 hospitalsTX$3,664Florida: median $4,622 across 17 hospitalsFL$4,622
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,935. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA10$11,330+286%$5,282 – $11,330
South Carolina SC16$8,672+196%$1,842 – $8,672
California CA44$5,008+71%$3,306 – $11,161
New Jersey NJ33$4,988+70%$4,211 – $5,855
Florida FL17$4,622+57%$2,974 – $4,718
Georgia GA10$4,402+50%$4,402 – $4,402
Ohio OH29$3,710+26%$1,660 – $4,451
Wisconsin WI23$3,673+25%$3,673 – $4,447
Texas TX37$3,664+25%$3,664 – $8,831
Minnesota MN23$2,9350%$1,481 – $3,443
Idaho ID10$2,834−3%$1,417 – $8,663
Louisiana LA11$2,237−24%$1,243 – $3,955
New York NY36$2,157−27%$1,216 – $4,502
Oregon OR18$1,950−34%$1,303 – $2,804
Pennsylvania PA25$1,880−36%$459 – $7,169
Illinois IL24$1,797−39%$862 – $3,771
Iowa IA21$1,746−40%$1,582 – $1,752
Michigan MI31$1,642−44%$1,381 – $3,673
Oklahoma OK14$1,493−49%$1,493 – $5,474
Missouri MO10$1,374−53%$1,019 – $4,139
Kansas KS12$1,326−55%$1,016 – $1,895
West Virginia WV14$973−67%$768 – $4,368
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,935.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care439$3,584$1,303 – $6,222
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access125$1,752$1,089 – $3,673
Ownership
For-profit43$2,834$1,139 – $5,562
Government99$2,008$1,228 – $4,502
Non-profit439$3,306$1,303 – $5,741
System affiliation
Part of a system462$3,664$1,334 – $5,419
Independent120$1,650$1,102 – $3,548

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,495
Median cash price$2,935
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

351 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,549 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,888; most fall between $1,216 and $6,432.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 351 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
$862$1,303$2,549$5,008$9,920

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($862 vs $9,920).

Of the 384 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 351 gave a usable cash price; 17 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

582 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 636 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted582
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code636

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 Other OR upper GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Closure Gastrostomy Surg.

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, “Surgical closure of a stomach feeding opening (CPT 43870) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-43870-surgical-closure-of-a-stomach-feeding-opening