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Procedure price report · Colorectal resection

Open removal of colon and rectum with permanent ileostomy

CPT 44155the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to remove the entire colon and rectum, close the anus, and bring the end of the small intestine out as a permanent stoma.

Hospitals typically charge $4,662 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 229 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,617. Most fall between $2,748 and $8,221 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
229
States
45
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 229 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
$2,169$3,097$4,662$6,322$10,236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,169 vs $10,236).

How the prices are spread

$1,364 – $1,668: 4 hospitals$1,364$1,668 – $2,041: 5 hospitals$2,041 – $2,497: 20 hospitals$2,041$2,497 – $3,054: 19 hospitals$3,054 – $3,736: 29 hospitals$3,054$3,736 – $4,571: 26 hospitals$4,571 – $5,591: 39 hospitals$4,571$5,591 – $6,840: 26 hospitals$6,840 – $8,367: 8 hospitals$6,840$8,367 – $10,236: 33 hospitals$8,367median $4,662price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (209 of 229 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,364$1,6684
$1,668$2,0415
$2,041$2,49720
$2,497$3,05419
$3,054$3,73629
$3,736$4,57126
$4,571$5,59139
$5,591$6,84026
$6,840$8,3678
$8,367$10,23633

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $4,662.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital 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: median $10,051 across 11 hospitalsMN$10,051Illinois: median $3,806 across 14 hospitalsIL$3,806Wisconsin: median $10,236 across 13 hospitalsWI$10,236Michigan: median $4,035 across 15 hospitalsMI$4,035New York: median $3,975 across 17 hospitalsNY$3,975Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $5,524 across 13 hospitalsOR$5,524Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $5,118 across 18 hospitalsIA$5,118Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 8 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $3,384 across 10 hospitalsOK$3,384Louisiana: 3 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,662. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI13$10,236+120%$10,236 – $10,236
Minnesota MN11$10,051+116%$8,567 – $10,051
Oregon OR13$5,524+18%$3,754 – $5,654
Iowa IA18$5,118+10%$4,188 – $5,118
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+10%$4,350 – $5,855
Michigan MI15$4,035−13%$2,728 – $4,798
New York NY17$3,975−15%$2,436 – $6,025
Illinois IL14$3,806−18%$2,335 – $5,800
Oklahoma OK10$3,384−27%$3,384 – $3,384
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $4,662.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care174$4,350$2,778 – $6,654
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$5,118$2,335 – $10,236
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government33$4,348$2,744 – $6,516
Non-profit178$4,881$2,860 – $8,949
System affiliation
Part of a system174$4,798$2,860 – $8,949
Independent55$4,066$2,539 – $6,240

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,398
Median cash price$4,662
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

171 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,035 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,456; most fall between $2,539 and $8,221.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 171 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
$2,114$2,925$4,035$6,465$10,236

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,114 vs $10,236).

Of the 207 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 171 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

229 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 274 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted229
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here43
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code274

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 23, 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 Colorectal resection family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Removal Colon/Proctectomy/Ileostomy.

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, “Open removal of colon and rectum with permanent ileostomy (CPT 44155) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44155-open-removal-of-colon-and-rectum-with-permanent-ileostomy