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Procedure price report · Ileostomy and other enterostomy

Keyhole surgery to create a small bowel stoma

CPT 44187the billing code this page is about

Laparoscopic creation of an opening from the small intestine onto the abdominal wall as a stoma, without a tube.

Hospitals typically charge $2,303 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 333 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,667. Most fall between $1,317 and $5,118 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
333
States
45
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 333 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
$852$1,555$2,303$4,480$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($852 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$548 – $718: 9 hospitals$548$718 – $940: 17 hospitals$940 – $1,233: 21 hospitals$940$1,233 – $1,615: 26 hospitals$1,615 – $2,117: 59 hospitals$1,615$2,117 – $2,775: 55 hospitals$2,775 – $3,636: 29 hospitals$2,775$3,636 – $4,766: 28 hospitals$4,766 – $6,246: 39 hospitals$4,766$6,246 – $8,186: 19 hospitals$6,246median $2,303price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (302 of 333 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$548$7189
$718$94017
$940$1,23321
$1,233$1,61526
$1,615$2,11759
$2,117$2,77555
$2,775$3,63629
$3,636$4,76628
$4,766$6,24639
$6,246$8,18619

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,303.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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 $5,118 across 14 hospitalsMN$5,118Illinois: median $1,899 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,899Wisconsin: median $5,986 across 31 hospitalsWI$5,986Michigan: median $1,866 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,866New York: median $1,788 across 22 hospitalsNY$1,788Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,986 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,986Nevada: 3 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 $2,717 across 21 hospitalsIA$2,717Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,359 across 14 hospitalsOH$2,359Pennsylvania: median $791 across 15 hospitalsPA$791New 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 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 $2,286 across 11 hospitalsOK$2,286Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 6 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 $2,303. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI31$5,986+160%$5,986 – $8,033
Minnesota MN14$5,118+122%$2,307 – $5,118
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+122%$3,986 – $5,855
Iowa IA21$2,717+18%$2,222 – $2,717
Ohio OH14$2,359+2%$1,320 – $4,524
Oklahoma OK11$2,286−1%$2,286 – $2,286
Oregon OR11$1,986−14%$1,986 – $3,137
Illinois IL15$1,899−18%$830 – $2,717
Michigan MI31$1,866−19%$1,505 – $2,491
New York NY22$1,788−22%$874 – $2,738
Pennsylvania PA15$791−66%$669 – $2,987
California CA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not 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
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not 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
North Dakota ND1not 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 $2,303.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care243$2,286$1,174 – $4,524
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access81$2,515$1,617 – $5,986
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government58$2,307$1,345 – $4,024
Non-profit255$2,286$1,320 – $5,118
System affiliation
Part of a system245$2,491$1,206 – $5,419
Independent88$2,165$1,324 – $3,654

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,265
Median cash price$2,303
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

195 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,098 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,136; most fall between $1,121 and $3,268.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 195 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
$856$1,320$2,098$3,007$5,785

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($856 vs $5,785).

Of the 226 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 195 gave a usable cash price; 21 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

333 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 395 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted333
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 code395

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 Ileostomy and other enterostomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Laparoscopy Surg Ileostomy/Jejunostomy Non-Tube.

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, “Keyhole surgery to create a small bowel stoma (CPT 44187) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44187-keyhole-surgery-to-create-a-small-bowel-stoma