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Procedure price report · Colorectal resection

Freeing the splenic flexure during colon removal

CPT 44139the billing code this page is about

Add-on service for releasing the bend of the colon near the spleen so it can be moved, done in the same operation as a partial colon removal.

Hospitals typically charge $279 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 523 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $299. Most fall between $158 and $580 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
523
States
48
Filings dated
Mar 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 523 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
$87$185$279$462$820

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $820).

How the prices are spread

$58 – $80: 24 hospitals$58$80 – $109: 14 hospitals$109 – $150: 35 hospitals$109$150 – $207: 69 hospitals$207 – $284: 97 hospitals$207$284 – $390: 109 hospitals$390 – $535: 34 hospitals$390$535 – $736: 52 hospitals$736 – $1,010: 22 hospitals$736$1,010 – $1,388: 16 hospitals$1,010median $279price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (472 of 523 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$58$8024
$80$10914
$109$15035
$150$20769
$207$28497
$284$390109
$390$53534
$535$73652
$736$1,01022
$1,010$1,38816

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $279.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $205 across 10 hospitalsME$205Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $246 across 17 hospitalsWA$246Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $372 across 32 hospitalsMN$372Illinois: median $297 across 23 hospitalsIL$297Wisconsin: median $640 across 37 hospitalsWI$640Michigan: median $331 across 34 hospitalsMI$331New York: median $193 across 26 hospitalsNY$193Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $326 across 23 hospitalsOR$326Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $298 across 36 hospitalsIA$298Indiana: median $197 across 18 hospitalsIN$197Ohio: median $182 across 18 hospitalsOH$182Pennsylvania: median $80 across 19 hospitalsPA$80New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $262 across 18 hospitalsCA$262Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $197 across 10 hospitalsKY$197West Virginia: median $136 across 13 hospitalsWV$136Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $191 across 16 hospitalsKS$191Arkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 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 $252 across 11 hospitalsOK$252Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $279. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+1730%$3,986 – $5,855
Wisconsin WI37$640+129%$573 – $1,000
Minnesota MN32$372+33%$229 – $678
Michigan MI34$331+18%$185 – $339
Oregon OR23$326+17%$218 – $344
Iowa IA36$298+7%$259 – $350
Illinois IL23$297+6%$90 – $570
California CA18$262−6%$168 – $937
Oklahoma OK11$252−10%$252 – $252
Washington WA17$246−12%$230 – $367
Maine ME10$205−27%$108 – $377
Indiana IN18$197−29%$67 – $291
Kentucky KY10$197−29%$125 – $331
New York NY26$193−31%$101 – $300
Kansas KS16$191−32%$102 – $272
Ohio OH18$182−35%$90 – $298
West Virginia WV13$136−51%$129 – $346
Pennsylvania PA19$80−71%$60 – $1,065
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $279.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care307$260$130 – $580
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access207$319$197 – $573
Ownership
For-profit27$339$197 – $2,069
Government126$284$186 – $449
Non-profit368$272$148 – $635
System affiliation
Part of a system366$298$155 – $640
Independent157$265$179 – $441

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$373
Median cash price$279
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

319 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $252 and the average of the middle 60% is $255; most fall between $129 and $431.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, 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
$71$160$252$358$640

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($71 vs $640).

Of the 358 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 319 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

523 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 596 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted523
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code596

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 Colorectal resection family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Moblj Splenic Flxr Pfrmd Conjunct W/Prtl Colct.

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, “Freeing the splenic flexure during colon removal (CPT 44139) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44139-freeing-the-splenic-flexure-during-colon-removal