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Procedure price report · Ileostomy and other enterostomy

Open placement of a feeding or drainage tube in the bowel

CPT 44300the billing code this page is about

Open surgery through an abdominal incision to place a tube into the small intestine or the first part of the colon for feeding or for draining intestinal contents.

Hospitals typically charge $1,742 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 493 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,809. Most fall between $899 and $2,983 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
493
States
47
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 493 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
$658$1,202$1,742$2,555$3,856

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($658 vs $3,856).

How the prices are spread

$361 – $472: 6 hospitals$361$472 – $616: 15 hospitals$616 – $805: 19 hospitals$616$805 – $1,051: 48 hospitals$1,051 – $1,372: 45 hospitals$1,051$1,372 – $1,792: 113 hospitals$1,792 – $2,340: 64 hospitals$1,792$2,340 – $3,056: 61 hospitals$3,056 – $3,991: 54 hospitals$3,056$3,991 – $5,212: 20 hospitals$3,991median $1,742price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (445 of 493 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$361$4726
$472$61615
$616$80519
$805$1,05148
$1,051$1,37245
$1,372$1,792113
$1,792$2,34064
$2,340$3,05661
$3,056$3,99154
$3,991$5,21220

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$1,742
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.89×

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 $1,742.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,704 across 17 hospitalsWA$1,704Idaho: median $4,686 across 10 hospitalsID$4,686Montana: 6 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 $2,649 across 19 hospitalsMN$2,649Illinois: median $1,353 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,353Wisconsin: median $3,856 across 29 hospitalsWI$3,856Michigan: median $1,662 across 34 hospitalsMI$1,662New York: median $1,440 across 32 hospitalsNY$1,440Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,060 across 15 hospitalsOR$2,060Nevada: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,066 across 26 hospitalsIA$2,066Indiana: median $899 across 11 hospitalsIN$899Ohio: median $1,310 across 15 hospitalsOH$1,310Pennsylvania: median $1,137 across 22 hospitalsPA$1,137New Jersey: median $4,881 across 15 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,742 across 30 hospitalsCA$1,742Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,258 across 13 hospitalsMO$1,258Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 7 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $813 across 10 hospitalsNC$813South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,766 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,766Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $298 across 18 hospitalsTX$298Florida: median $2,552 across 32 hospitalsFL$2,552
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,742. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ15$4,881+180%$3,786 – $5,741
Idaho ID10$4,686+169%$1,661 – $4,686
Wisconsin WI29$3,856+121%$3,089 – $5,004
Minnesota MN19$2,649+52%$1,396 – $3,480
Florida FL32$2,552+47%$707 – $3,575
Iowa IA26$2,066+19%$1,344 – $2,066
Oregon OR15$2,060+18%$1,545 – $2,300
Oklahoma OK13$1,766+1%$1,766 – $1,766
California CA30$1,7420%$1,410 – $1,742
Washington WA17$1,704−2%$1,538 – $2,481
Michigan MI34$1,662−5%$1,295 – $2,639
New York NY32$1,440−17%$1,000 – $2,395
Illinois IL16$1,353−22%$899 – $2,855
Ohio OH15$1,310−25%$885 – $2,131
Missouri MO13$1,258−28%$848 – $1,303
Pennsylvania PA22$1,137−35%$521 – $1,577
Indiana IN11$899−48%$871 – $1,730
North Carolina NC10$813−53%$813 – $1,612
Texas TX18$298−83%$298 – $2,179
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $1,742.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care362$1,742$899 – $2,682
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access119$1,736$1,009 – $3,480
Ownership
For-profit42$2,335$1,362 – $4,368
Government90$1,693$887 – $2,377
Non-profit359$1,742$899 – $3,089
System affiliation
Part of a system376$1,763$899 – $3,089
Independent117$1,630$1,019 – $2,757

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,559
Median cash price$1,742
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

317 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,663 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,650; most fall between $866 and $2,542.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 317 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
$564$966$1,663$2,335$3,353

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($564 vs $3,353).

Of the 345 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 317 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 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

493 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 560 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted493
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code560

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 Ileostomy and other enterostomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Placement Enterostomy/Cecostomy Tube Open.

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 placement of a feeding or drainage tube in the bowel (CPT 44300) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44300-open-placement-of-a-feeding-or-drainage-tube-in-the-bowel