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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Small bowel endoscopy with removal of a swallowed object

CPT 44363the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed into the small intestine (not reaching the ileum) to find and remove a foreign object.

Hospitals typically charge $2,072 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 607 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,012. Most fall between $562 and $3,796 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
607
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 607 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
$344$767$2,072$3,286$5,323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($344 vs $5,323).

How the prices are spread

$265 – $360: 44 hospitals$265$360 – $489: 43 hospitals$489 – $663: 29 hospitals$489$663 – $900: 33 hospitals$900 – $1,222: 29 hospitals$900$1,222 – $1,658: 62 hospitals$1,658 – $2,250: 107 hospitals$1,658$2,250 – $3,054: 63 hospitals$3,054 – $4,145: 90 hospitals$3,054$4,145 – $5,625: 55 hospitals$4,145median $2,072price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (555 of 607 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$265$36044
$360$48943
$489$66329
$663$90033
$900$1,22229
$1,222$1,65862
$1,658$2,250107
$2,250$3,05463
$3,054$4,14590
$4,145$5,62555

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,960
Median cash price$2,072
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $2,072.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,072 across 11 hospitalsWA$2,072Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,759 across 26 hospitalsIL$1,759Wisconsin: median $2,127 across 22 hospitalsWI$2,127Michigan: median $562 across 28 hospitalsMI$562New York: median $2,245 across 26 hospitalsNY$2,245Massachusetts: median $5,323 across 17 hospitalsMA$5,323Oregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $485 across 18 hospitalsIA$485Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,097 across 44 hospitalsOH$3,097Pennsylvania: median $2,768 across 35 hospitalsPA$2,768New Jersey: median $2,531 across 35 hospitalsNJ$2,531Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,796 across 60 hospitalsCA$3,796Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,557 across 15 hospitalsMO$1,557Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 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: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,067 across 12 hospitalsTN$1,067North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,237 across 18 hospitalsSC$2,237Oklahoma: median $265 across 15 hospitalsOK$265Louisiana: median $857 across 13 hospitalsLA$857Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,245 across 24 hospitalsGA$1,245Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,138 across 40 hospitalsTX$1,138Florida: median $2,154 across 27 hospitalsFL$2,154
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,072. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Massachusetts MA17$5,323+157%$1,825 – $5,691
California CA60$3,796+83%$1,390 – $5,454
Ohio OH44$3,097+49%$1,786 – $3,659
Pennsylvania PA35$2,768+34%$767 – $3,574
New Jersey NJ35$2,531+22%$2,102 – $5,419
New York NY26$2,245+8%$745 – $2,278
South Carolina SC18$2,237+8%$1,593 – $2,237
Florida FL27$2,154+4%$2,123 – $3,866
Wisconsin WI22$2,127+3%$2,048 – $2,127
Washington WA11$2,0720%$344 – $3,153
Illinois IL26$1,759−15%$323 – $3,825
Missouri MO15$1,557−25%$310 – $3,910
Georgia GA24$1,245−40%$1,245 – $3,153
Texas TX40$1,138−45%$704 – $1,326
Tennessee TN12$1,067−49%$202 – $1,261
Louisiana LA13$857−59%$530 – $2,055
Michigan MI28$562−73%$562 – $2,127
Iowa IA18$485−77%$454 – $485
Oklahoma OK15$265−87%$265 – $1,723
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,072.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care522$2,100$704 – $3,796
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access68$1,326$365 – $2,902
Ownership
For-profit49$1,587$551 – $3,097
Government83$1,940$458 – $3,153
Non-profit471$2,127$562 – $3,796
System affiliation
Part of a system525$2,127$656 – $3,796
Independent82$1,418$389 – $2,716

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,442
Median cash price$2,072
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

446 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,786 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,955; most fall between $469 and $3,796.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 446 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
$304$704$1,786$3,267$5,323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($304 vs $5,323).

Of the 489 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 446 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

607 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 671 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted607
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code671

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Nonoperative removal of foreign body family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Enteroscopy > 2nd Prtn W/Rmvl Foreign Body.

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, “Small bowel endoscopy with removal of a swallowed object (CPT 44363) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44363-small-bowel-endoscopy-with-removal-of-a-swallowed-object